Rain, rain, rain - more then enough...

... in Mindanao. Indeed, Mindanao floods worsen!

Floods caused by intermittent heavy rains and incessant atrocotoes are swelling the number of evacuees in Maguindanano, with inudation alone affected a total of almost 46,000 families.

The city goverment of Cotabato City, meanwhile, declared a state of calamity after floods swelled to almost 20 percent of barangays, while North Cotabato Governor Emylou Talino Mendoza convened her Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Managament Council to address worening floods in Tulunan, Kabacan, Pikit and Mlang, among other towns.

Other flooded towns are Shariff Saidona, Datu Salibo, Shariff Aguak, Rajah Buayan, - just to mention some among many others.

Dozens of families were displaced in villages of Matalam and Kidapawan City, but, not because of rain - due to intermittent fighting between field members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and Moro National Liberation Front over territoral or land control.

Seven-hours Daily Blackouts in Zamboanga...

.... for, at least 45 days. Wow. Good, I am residing in Davao City. Bad for those in Zamboanga City... .

The Zamboanga City Electric Cooperative (Zamcelco) has announced that this city will again experience at least seven hours rotational blackouts daily.

Zamcelco president Omar Sahi said, this is due to the maintenance shutdown of STEAG State Power, Inc. power plant in Villanueva, Misamis Oriental and Agus 2 in Lanao del Norte.

Sahi said the two power plants supply a total of 28 megawatt (MW) for Zamcelco. The ccoperative's daily peak demand is pegged at 87 MW.

The implementation of the rotational blackout (or brownout, as said in the Philippines) per feeder would be three hours in the morning, three in the afternoon and one hour in the evening.

Zamcelco has a total of 24 feeders serving a total of 114,504 member consumers.