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ABUCAY, Bataan: Three villages in a town in Bataan for the fourth day Thursday have been buried in thick mud left by the massive floods that hit the province on Sunday.
Thursday the locals were reportedly shoveling Barangay Gabon mud, Omboy and Wawa to Abucay, Bataan
The traffic along the MacArthur Expressway to Abucay was slow because tons of mud on the sides of the road were still not removed.
The thick mud-covered streets in Gabon were tricycles and the locals did not wear boots when they walked the streets.
Mattresses, sala sets, wardrobes and linoleum were seen on the roadsides
. Lucy Manlapid, 63, said the flood was deep in Gabon, calling the deluge the worst in 10 years. daan naming para makadaan kami [I hope that the roads will be cleared so that we can walk on them]
Some locals have said that the Sunday flood had been aggravated by the collapse of a pedestrian bridge and portions of a dike in Gabon .
Elcid Flores said Sunday morning that the water was already coming from a swollen river, It flooded Gabon and adjacent villages.
He added that the flood waters were over six feet deep in the street and in the chest
Flores said that he and his wife cleaned the mud of their house for five days.
"Bumabaha rito pero ito pinakamalaking baha buhat noong 2002 [It gets flooded here but this flooding is the worst since 2002]," said Flores.
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