BALANGA CITY — Flash floods hit seven of 11 towns and one city in Bataan affecting more than 7,000 families, the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) reported Sunday.
Inundated by one to five feet deep floodwaters Saturday were 11 barangays in Hermosa, five in Dinalupihan, three in Pilar, two in Abucay and one each in Balanga City, Orion and Morong.
As of Sunday floodwaters already subsided in many areas except in barangays Almacen, Daungan and Pulo in Hermosa that were still flooded from three to five feet deep.
Angel Ruiz of the Office of Gov. Albert Garcia said that 40 families were brought to evacuation centers in Hermosa and Pilar Saturday but returned to their home Sunday.
Garcia who chairs PDRRMO ordered the release of relief goods and the mobilization of all concerned agencies for rescue and relief operations.
PDRRMO placed at 7, 650 the total number of families affected by the twoday flood.
A steel bridge temporarily used as passageway by residents to cross the Sibacan River in Balanga City collapsed after debris clogged the waterway coupled with the onslaught of strong floodwater. No one was hurt.
A new one was being built adjacent to the damaged bridge.
Ruiz said there was no recorded landslide or death during the flooding.
Both the MacArthur Highway and Roman Expressway were passable to all types of vehicles.
As of Sunday afternoon, the weather improved with the sun coming out although there were intermittent light showers.
