The 2012 Metro Manila Flooding, informally known as a habagat (monsoon), was an eight-day period of torrential rain and thunderstorms in the Philippines from August 1 to August 8, 2012. Its effects centered on Metro Manila, the surrounding provinces of the CALABARZON Region (Quezon, Cavite, Laguna and Rizal) and the provinces of Region 3 (Bulacan, Pampanga and Bataan). Not a typhoon in its own right, the storm was a strong movement of the southwest monsoon (Tagalog: Habagat) caused by the pull of Typhoon Saola (Gener) from August 1–3, strengthened by Typhoon Haikui. It caused typhoon-like damage: the most damage caused by rain since September 2009, when Typhoon Ketsana (Ondoy) struck Metro Manila. The heavy rain caused theMarikina River to overflow, destroying areas also affected by Ketsana, triggering a landslide in the Commonwealth area and collapsing the northbound Marcos Highway.
Its damage was nearly as severe as Ketsana's, although the storm did not reachtyphoon intensity when the rain reached its peak on August 7. Due to its monsoon-like damage, the period was called Ang Hagupit ng Habagat ("monsoon wrath") andBagsik ng Habagat ("fierce monsoon"). The floods and rain left 95 people dead, 8,428 homes destroyed and 6,706 damaged. Nationwide losses totaled at least₱604.63 million (US$14.31 million).
From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Metro_Manila_flooding
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