Wow it has been raining a lot in Cebu for the last few weeks. It has rained nearly every day this month. It is more than normal rain. I like the rain. It is cooler. I like cooler.
Cebu is located in the Central Philippines. It is a hot spot for tourist and host one of the largest and most modern cities which is Cebu City.
In an article by the inquirer, I read that this amount of rainfall is far above normal.
The weather station recorded 203.5 millimeters of rainfall from Jan. 1 to 16, nearly double the 108.9 millimeters usually recorded this month, said Engr. Oscar Tabada of the Pagasa- Mactan.
So for the first two weeks of January 2011 we’ve already had twice the normal amount of rain for the
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entire month.
At this point, I would think that landslides have to be a considerable threat. I’ve heard only of small landslides in Cebu so far. We’ve had a fairly heavy rain most of the day today. With the soil already saturated, I fear a more severe landslide could be coming.
Leyte had a significant landslide recently and the Cebu Provincial government was offering aid.
I just performed a search for landslides in Cebu and didn’t find mention of any recently landslides. The most recent I could find was from October of 2010. They happened in Alegria, Cebu which is in the southern part of the island.
A few weeks ago, the governor of Cebu assured everyone that Cebu was ready to respond if the worst happened. I will hope that it is not tested. A few years ago, I think in 2007, a major landslide killed more than a thousand in Leyte as it slammed into a school and buried it. Many children were killed in that landslide and a town was wiped out.
So I will keep hoping for the best. For those people living in Cebu, it has been a very wet month and today, I think is the wettest of all so far.
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Yeah, I came to Leyte in late November and had a nice mix of sunshine and light rain for a couple weeks. Then mid-December arrived and it rained everyday until I left in early January. While I was in Taiwan, my wife back home was complaining that it was still raining constantly. I’m not talking about a light rain either. This was rain forest rain, as in poring constantly, heavily, non-stop. I just came back at the beginning of February and finally had a few decent days, yesterday and today being 50/50 rainy and sunny. We’ve also had tons of brownouts, and I heard from a guy in Burauen that they won’t have electricity until Monday (two days) because they need 27million pesos (600+thousand usd) to replace or fix something. In our town they’re giving us all night until morning and then they’ll cut us off at 8am until 4pm Sunday (1.5days) or something like that.
Yeah, we use to get a an all day brownout once a month on a Sunday in Bogo. That stopped for a while. A large plant in Mandaue was the main cause. They worked out a deal with that plant to produce its own power. That stopped it for a few months and then they were back again.
We had another short brownout a couple of days ago.
The rain has let up a bit. I prefer the rain as it is cooler. May is coming. Ugggh…. Hot!
Some areas of Leyte and Samar are still very rural and there are likely a lot of brownouts in that area.
Bantayan island, near me, has had a lot of brownouts lately.
I hope things get better in Central Visaya, it looks promising. But….. I know they will return eventually.