Down in the Flood

Major floods have displaced over 109,000 in the southern Philippines, reports the Manila Bulletin (MN), sending victims fleeing to already crowded evacuation centers.  

The centers were set up last year to allow villagers to escape the fighting between government forces and the rebel MILFS (not that kind of MILF -- see previous post).  Now government and aid workers cannot delineate between those fleeing floods and those fleeing violence.  

Though the government had previously declared the fighting had calmed some time ago, many were hesitant to leave the evacuation centers where three daily meals were a guarantee.  Now, many of those in the center have no homes to go to after floods severely damaged them.

Resultant landslides wiped out highway routes, "leaving thousands of commuters and more than 100 public and private vehicles stranded yesterday," reports MN.