Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Filipino guy wearing blue shirt doing butterfly stroke while swimming in water in Quezon city as typhoon Carina PH takes over. (Read More Here).
Taking to social media, Twitter user, /wonwooshhh, shared a video of a young man swimming in butterfly stroke style in front of his house despite heavy flooding.
As of posting, no tropical cyclone wind signal is raised over Metro Manila, but the state weather bureau warned that apart from intense rains, strong to gale-force gusts over the region are also expected.
Carina, the country’s third tropical cyclone in 2024, is expected to exit the Philippine area of responsibility on Wednesday or early Thursday morning.
“This, I believe, is the consequence of all the reclamation happening in Manila Bay, wala ng malabasan na flood water dito sa Pasay at Manila,” he said.
(This, I believe, is the consequence of all the reclamation happening in Manila Bay; there is no outlet for flood water here in Pasay and Manila.)
“Babaha at babaha na palagi dyan sa atin tuwing uulan nang malakas,” he added.
(It will always result in flooding every time it rains heavily.)