"Stay on safe grounds. We are trying to get there as quickly as possible."
The government declared a "state of calamity".
Huge traffic jams clogged the roads in the capital as floodwaters caused many vehicles to stall….monstrous trafiic jam….several homes have been submerged in floods, TV networks showed a dramatic video of people crying for help, roofs of damaged houses being swept away by the suburban Marikina River.
Radio DZMM reported about a wall, weakened by floodwaters, collapsed in a suburb of Manila.
One of the three airport terminals in Manila was forced to cancel and divert flights after the flooding hampered its electrical system.
These were the damaged as Tropical Ondoy battered Luzon on Saturday. The storm, bearing winds of 85 kilometres (53 miles) per hour with gusts of 100 kph, hit the main island of Luzon near the town of Infanta at about 0200 GMT Sunday, moving west at 19 kph, the weather station said.
Government weather forecaster said the equivalent of one month's worth of rain fell on the city in less than a day.
We knew there would be rain but not like this. In 6 hours time it almost flooded the country. About 13.4 inches (34.1 centimeters) of rain fell on metropolitan Manila in just six hours, close to the 15.4-inch (39.2-centimeter) average for the entire month of September. After forty years ngayon lang uli naulit na bumagyo na ganito kataas ang tubig. At hindi handa ang tao sa pagragasa ng tubig.
Flooding was reported in many districts and on roads reported with waters in some areas reaching as high as the rooftops of one-storey buildings, the civil defence office said. Hardly hit were place like Pateros, Pasig, Rizal, Marikina, Antipolo, and some part of Quezon City, Bulacan, Laguna.
An average of 20 typhoons and storms enter the Philippines from the Pacific Ocean over the eastern seaboard every year.
Kaya nga ang bagyo ay may pangalan nagsisimula sa letrang A to Z.
Sino ba naman ang mag-aakala na ang bagyong ito ay lilikha ng malaking delubyo.
Sa taas ng inabot ng tubig ay makikita pati fridge sa bahay ay sumabit sa kawad ng kuryente. Ang mga sasakyang nakahambalang sa daan ay sumampa sa iba pang mga sasakyan. Nakakadurog puso ang eksena kung saan marami sa ating mga kababayan ang nawalan ng bahay at mga ariarian. Matapos humupa ang baha ay nakitang nakahambalang sa daan ang mga bangkay na nakalubog sa putik.
In hard time like this be brave, show the strenght of human spirit. Sa mga sakuna at kalamidad na gaya nito ay laging nakaantabay ang National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC), Philippine National Red Cross (PNRC), Department of Social Welfare and Development(DSWD), mga NGO's, Foundations, private sectors at iba-ibang tulong na ang pangunahing misyon ay sumagip ng buhay.
Sa mga naapektuhan ng pananalasa ng bagyo at mga kalamidad sana po ay tatagan natin ang ating mga loob. There is always a silver lining behind the dark clouds. Isa sa katangian natin bilang mga Pilipino ay kaya natin sagupain ang ilan man bagyong dumarating. Manahan tayo at hunawak sa Dakilang Lumikha. Pag-asa laban sa pag-asa.
