The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) has stated that the country should be bracing for at least 18 typhoons this year.
NDRRMC executive director Alexander Pama was quoted as saying, “We cannot predict how many of them are strong because that is a function of the weather (bureau). But we are experiencing erratic weather. I think the prudent thing for us to do is to assume that most of these are strong.”
Member agencies of the NDRRMC met in Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City yesterday to thresh out the preparations for the rainy season and vowed to ensure a better response to disasters than during the onslaught of Typhoon Yolanda,” reports The Philippine Star.
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