{"id":54594,"date":"2015-07-07T15:26:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T07:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=54594"},"modified":"2015-07-08T02:55:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T18:55:51","slug":"egay-hits-luzon-shuts-down-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/07\/egay-hits-luzon-shuts-down-metro\/","title":{"rendered":"Egay hits Luzon, shuts down Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/dost-egay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54295\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/dost-egay-300x153.jpg\" alt=\"dost egay\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/dost-egay-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/dost-egay.jpg 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Some flights were canceled in Northern Luzon and all ships were ordered to remain in harbor as Tropical Storm Egay hits the country on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Some schools in Metro Manila were also closed, according to disaster officials.<\/p>\n<p>Egay hit north on Sunday and was spotted about\u00a0135 km southwest of Laoag City on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Atleast 14 areas were issued with storm warnings as Egay enters the Philippine Area of Responsibilty (PAR) with\u00a0maximum wind gusts of 100 kilometers per hour.<\/p>\n<p>Executive director of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said in a statement that all sea activities were grounded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are grounding all sea travel and fishing operations in the north because we expect sea waves to go as high as 4 meters,\u201d Pama said.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) also recorded more than 1,600 families affected by storm.<\/p>\n<p>Several families were also evacuated due to flashfloods and landslides.<\/p>\n<p>In the Ilocos region,\u00a01,603 families from the provinces of La Union, Pangasinan and Ilocos Sur; \u00a019 people in Benguet and Kalinga provinces in the Cordillera Administrative Region\u00a0were evacuated from their homes.<\/p>\n<p>Social Welfare Secretary Dinky Soliman said that the department had\u00a0more than 100,000 in food packs ready \u00a0 for northern Luzon towns.<\/p>\n<p>Soliman said the\u00a0goods were prepositioned in \u00a0local government units as part of their preparedness measure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe prepositioning of relief supply at the provincial and municipal levels is a regular disaster preparedness measure that we undertake to ensure that assistance is not delayed,\u201d Soliman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Some flights were canceled in Northern Luzon and all ships were ordered to remain in harbor as Tropical &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":54295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","category-uncategorized","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}