Floods hit Kidapawan, Cotabato due to enhanced monsoon

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Tahoma; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Some streets in various areas in Kidapawan City and North Cotabato became flooded following the torrential pouring brought by monsoon rains enhanced by Typhoon Hanna. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Tahoma; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A report from GMA's “Balita Pilipinas” on Wednesday said the streets in Kabacan town in North Cotabato were flooded due to the rainfall. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Tahoma; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">in Kidapawan City, students were stranded and there was zero visibility. There were also landslides reported in the area. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Tahoma; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Due to this, the local government implemented a forced evacuation of at least 50 families in Barangay Ilomavis in Kidapawan City. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Tahoma; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Meanwhile, at least 29 barangays in Maguindanao also experienced flooding. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Tahoma; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Earlier, the Humanitarian Emergency Action and Response Team headquarters of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao implemented a code red alert. -NB, GMA News