When Quinta forced NIA to open Moroboro 4

I was going down to the ground floor until
I saw my mentor in UI-Law, Judge (retired)
Severino  Aguilar and Tommy Que supervising
the unloading  of relief goods for Quinta
victims donated by the Free Masons.

(As I took a retreat in my files, I stumbled on the four sets of notes cum photo albums on typhoon Quinta, the tragedy that spiked after NIA opened the floodgates of Moroboro Dam in Dingle submerging 22 towns in Iloilo including Dingle.)


Relief continues for Quinta victims 07 Jan 13

Bagyo Quinta swept Panay afternoon of December 25, 2012 with moderate winds but continuous rains which continued the whole day and night of December 26, and subsided the morning of Dec. 27. Flood water though continued to rise despite receding rainfall. By the evening of December 27, more people evacuated as floodwater submerged wider areas following the release of excess water from Moroboro Dam in Dingle, Iloilo.

Iloilo suffered 11 dead, one missing, and 30,000 families displaced, reports Jerry Bionat, executive director of the Iloilo Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office.

The photos below of relief goods being loaded on lorries are taken morning of 07 January 13, two weeks from the disaster.

(I just tripped into this old file in my archive. The photos below look like a precursor to many more sets in my collection taken in the aftermath of Yolanda.. The tragedy spiked because NIA opened the gates of Moroboro dam in Dingle submerging 22 towns in Iloilo including Dingle.)

Relief continues for Quinta victims 07 Jan 13

Iloilo Province declared a state of calamity to allow it to release calamity funds. Private groups and individuals also poured in donations, mostly, in relief goods.

Relief continues to pour in for Quinta victims. Iloilo PDRRMO Jerry Bionat reports later that the death toll in Iloilo rose to 11. "Hope no one else will be added in the list," he said.

Later in the day, volunteer students from the West Visayas State University (WVSU) came to pack the goods in individual bags.

Representatives of Masons in Panay (they are different from Masonic Lodge 2, a criminal gang comprising high Vatican clerics I had earlier written about) came to deliver 70 boxes of canned sardines.

105,000 Ilonggos were displaced by the typhoon, most of them farmers who also lost homes and crops, and may take months to recover.


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