By Ric V. Obedencio
The Bohol ChronicleAt least one person was dead and millions of pesos worth of seaweed farms in Bien-Unido damaged in the aftermath of typhoon 'Lando' last week even as tornados hit two islets in Pres. Carlos P. Garcia, destroying some 100 households.
Sketchy reports reaching the Chronicle bared that a landslide occurred in barangay Lusong, Buenavista town along the highway to Danao town but no one was injured nor casualty. Also, a river in San Miguel town overflowed and some farms of barangays Poblacion and Bayongan adversely affected, the report said.
This came despite exclusion of the province of Bohol from pathway of "Lando" by the Philippine Atmosphere Geo-sciences Astronomical S Administration (Pag-asa).
In an islet of Mawmawan, off Bien-Unido town, Lalaine Abrasada, 13, was hit by a falling G-melina tree that destroyed the house while she was sleeping in the afternoon of nov. 19, 2007 as confirmed by Mayor Nino Rey Boniel in an interview yesterday.
Officials here said that more than 1,000 hectares of seaweeds farms off island-barangays of Bilangbilangan and Hingutanan were partly devastated by 'Lando.' But Boniel said there was not yet estimate of the damage of the multi-million dollar seaweed farms.
Boniel minced no words of assailing Pag-asa's failure of providing accurate forecasting since they thought "Lando" would not hit the town ased on its prediction. But when it reached the town, it was no ordinary wind blow but really a storm that caught everybody flat-footed, he said.
The mayor said that he will utilize the 30% of the calamity fund of his town for rehabilitation and preparation for up-coming super-typhoon "Mina." He also alerted the residents in or near the coastal areas.
In island town of CPG, two islets of Butan and Gaos were badly ruined by twisters, said Vice-Mayor Nestor Abad in an interview.
He said that initial findings of the Municipal Disaster Coordinating Council (MDCC) that conducted ocular inspection bared that some 50 houses in Butan and another estimate of 50 houses in Gaos were damaged. But there were no injuries nor casualties wrought by the tornados in the evening of November 19, 2007.
The extent of the damage was not yet available, Abad said.
He said that MDCC is contemplating to use the calamity fund to help the affected families. But he has to coordinate with Mayor Tesalonica Boyboy, who was out of town last week when contacted for comment.
He said most of the families affected by "Lando" d epend largely on fishing as their source of livelihood.
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