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December 6, 2004
General Nakar: Four storms have left more than 1300 people dead or missing in the eastern Quezon province. People begged military helicopters shuttling suppies and the injured to take them from this area. Four storms have struck in two weeks, causing widespread devastation.
Army and civilian contractors were working around the clock to clear the mud covered roads and build temporary bridges to the coastal towns.
Social Welfare Secretary Corazon Soliman: "People there are still in trauma and shock. We literally have ot feed them because they lost everything. Even if they have money, there's nothing left to buy in that area." According to Soliman, Manila has received about $500,000 worth of relief supplies from local and international agencies, which was distributed to more than 500,000 storm victims. Workers fear the spread of disease due to lack of sanitary water, and diarrhoea is already starting.
Navy ships, helicopters, and soldiers, labored for hours to bring food, drinking water, medicine, and clothes to the disaster areas.
Typical family daily family rations, which many survivors have no way to cook, include:
Disaster officials claim that even the tiny Pacific Ocean island of Polilio had been reached with supplies.
Some enviromentalists blaim logging for worsening the problems, prompting President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to cancel all permits to cut trees.
According to 62 year old farmer Jesus Pugay in the town of Infanta, "Life here has been difficult. I don't know how long we can survive this ordeal."
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