Typhoon Ulysses left thick mud covering the roads and households in Rodriguez town in Rizal province.
“Unang Balita” reported on Friday that Barangay Kasiglahan was severely affected by the thick mud.
The mud covered the roads of the barangay. It also left damage to households and floods caused by typhoon Ulysses.
The barangay also remains without electricity and without water.
No one was reported injured or killed in the town.
According to residents, they need water, electricity, and relief goods right now.
Meanwhile, around 3,000 families remained in evacuation centers in Rodriguez and San Mateo in Rizal province due to the adverse effects of Typhoon Ulysses, Dong Malonzo of Rizal Provincial Disaster Risk and Reduction Management Office said.
Malonzo told Unang Hirit on Friday that 2,500 of these families were from Rodriguez (formerly Montalban) while 1,200 were from San Mateo.
The figures, Malonzo said, do not include those households staying in friends and relatives after their homes were flooded and damaged by the typhoon.
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Malonzo said some evacuees were returned to their homes on Thursday afternoon when the weather condition improved.
“Kahapon ng hapon may mga pinayagan nang bumalik [ng bahay], ito yung mga nasa mataas na bahagi yung lugar nila,” he said.
The official also said all those asking to be rescued during the height of Ulysses’ onslaught had been rescued based on reports from the ground.
The rescue operation’s delays were due to the floodwaters in San Mateo, Malonzo added.
“Yung outside rescue teams, umiikot pa kasi sila sa Commonwealth [Avenue in Quezon City], pagdating sa San Mateo ay mataas ang tubig,” he said.
(The outside rescue teams, because they are still circling around the Commonwealth [Avenue in Quezon City] when they arrive in San Mateo the water is high.)
Malonzo said those included in the rescue teams were members of the military, the police, the Philippine Coast Guard, and the Department of Social Welfare and Development, among others.