Today is 10 years to the day Tropical Storm “Ondoy” (international name: Ketsana) unleashed a month’s worth of rainfall in just six calamitous hours, causing Marikina City’s eponymous ...

MANILA, Philippines – Five years ago on September 26, Tropical Storm Ondoy (international name: Ketsana) ravaged Luzon, submerging areas like Metro Manila in floods at record-breaking levels.

Cencil — who had given birth to her youngest just four days before Tropical Storm “Ondoy” (international name: Ketsana) struck Metro Manila on Sept. 26, 2009 — immediately thought ...

The people of Metro Manila were expecting just another Signal No. 1 storm on September 26, 2009, and Ondoy didn't sound particularly terrible. But the rain poured, and poured, and did not stop from ...

The best and the worst in Filipinos – but mostly the best Each time I am asked about my Ondoy experience, I do not fail to mention that I’ve seen and heard the best and worst in Filipinos then ...

ONE name unites Filipinos in Metro Manila in a common experience and memory of tragedy and triumph: Ondoy. For those especially in Marikina, it all centers ironically with water, especially that ...

Tragic because a good friend lost his daughter over dengue and also because some of my closest friends in Luzon lost almost all of their belongings to Ondoy's deluge. And as of this writing ...

In its last quarterly survey of 2009, done on Dec. 5-10, SWS asked household heads if the family was victimized (nasalanta) by recent typhoons and storms—namely ...

Jenifer’s family had faced typhoons before, and nobody was worried on the day before Tropical Storm Ondoy in 2009. “It was the usual Malabon. It was noisy outside, people were on the streets ...

Tropical storm “Ondoy,” which wreaked havoc over Central Luzon, including Metro Manila on Sept. 26, 2009, made business establishments and residential owners realize their vulnerability ...

Reminiscent of what happened during the onslaught of Tropical Depression Ondoy (international code name Ketsana), the heavy rains caused Marikina River to overflow. Ondoy, which struck the ...

The death toll from tropical storm "Ondoy" (Ketsana) went up to 280 as of late Thursday, the National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) said. In a 3 p.m. report posted on its Web site Thursday ...