Online Guide: Relief Operations on Metro Manila Floods

It’s been raining the entire week but the last two days have been the heaviest. Majority of the areas in Metro Manila and nearby areas are flooded. Suspension of classes, work and gov’t offices have been raised since this morning. We’ve collated all important online information you can refer to for efforts during situations like these.

We wrote about DOST’s Project Noah last month and it has proven to be very useful in getting flood situation reports this week.

Project Noah: noah.dost.gov.ph

Here are several more accounts, links, apps and information you may need during these times.

Twitter Accounts to Monitor:

@nababaha – Project Noah
@mmda & @MMDATweets – Metro Manila Development Authority
@philredcross – Philippine Red Cross
@dost_pagasa – PAGASA
@DOTCPhilippines – for public transportation concerns
@meralco – for power/electricity concerns
@DSWDserve – for evacuation centers
@Rescue5PH – rescue team by TV5
@MarikinaPIO – efforts for Marikina City
@PTVph – PTV 4
@NDRRMC_Opcen – National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council
@DZMMTeleRadyo – radio updates
@ANCALERTS – cable updates
@ABSCBNNews – news updates
@MakatiTraffic – traffic situation in Makati, including number coding

Official Hashtags:

#ReliefPH – for relief efforts
#RescuePH – for flood rescue effort
#FloodPH – for general flooding news
#PHalerts – for government advisories

Crowd-sourced documents for Rescue Ops:

Google Docs of Rescue Operations – bit.ly/rescuePH –

GMA7 Rescue Database: http://www.yugatech.com/gma7rescue

Smart Person Finder – Track family members via their Smart phones: Text FIND & send to 386.

Google Person Finder: https://www.google.org/personfinder/2012-08-philippines-flood

RescuesPH.com – consolidated map-based rescue monitoring

Mobile Apps:

MMDA Traffic Navigator – Android App, iOS App

TrafficDito – iOS app

Philippine Emergency Numbers – Android App

Donations:

Donate directly to Red Cross: http://www.redcross.org.ph/donate

Smart subscribers may send donations to Red Cross via SMS. Text RED to 4143.
For Globe Gcash users, text DONATE MPIN SLB and send to 2882 (e.g. DONATE 100 1234 slb)

You can donate the ff. denominations:
Globe: 5, 25, 100, 300, 500 or 1000
Smart: 10, 25, 50, 100, 300, 500 or 1000

@LBC_Foundation – for sending donations via LBC Express

Smart subscribers may donate to The Baha Fund via Smart Money Acct. No. 5577 5130 6822 1104. Deposits are accepted in BDO branches.

Emergency Cellphone Loads:

For Globe/TM subscribers, text GTSOS to 3733 for 3 emergency credits.

For Smart subscribers, dial *767 to receive 3 emergency credits and P1 airtime.

Smart subscribers with zero load simply need to key in *7572 to receive credits worth Php5USD 0.09INR 7EUR 0.08CNY 0.62, equivalent to four All-Net SMS and Php1USD 0.02INR 1EUR 0.02CNY 0.12 airtime. A Php5USD 0.09INR 7EUR 0.08CNY 0.62 airtime will be deducted from the subscriber’s next load purchase.

Note: Amount will be deducted on your next reload.

Text-Collect Services:

“Text Mo Libre Ko” service of Globe

â€¢ Compose your message and send it to 2354+the 11-digit Globe/TM number (ex. 235409171234567)

Collect Text service of Smart

â€¢ Compose your message and send it to 44+the 11-digit Smart/TNT number (ex. 4409189876543)

Government Hotlines:

NDRRMC: (02) 911-1406, (02) 912-2665, (02) 912-5668
PNP Hotline: 117
PNP Text-line: Text PNP to 2920
BFP: (02) 729-5166, (02) 410-6254, (02) 431-8859, (02) 407-1230
MMDA: 136
DOTC hotline: 7890 or 0918-8848484
Red Cross hotline: 143 or (02) 911-1876
NLEX hotlines: (02) 3-5000 and (02) 580-8910
SCTEX hotlines: (0920) 96-SCTEX (72839)
Skyway System Hotline: (02) 776-7777, 0915-6256231, 0939-5006910
SLEx hotline: 0908-8807539

Local Government Units:

Manila Traffic Hotline: (02) 527-3087
Cainta Traffic Hotline: (02) 646-0044, 655-7368 loc. 164
Las PiÃ±as Traffic: (02) 874-5756, 874-3957, 874-3927
Mandaluyong Hotline: (02) 534-2993
Taguig Traffic: (02) 838-4301 loc. 7112
Marikina STOC: (02) 646-1651
Pasig Traffic: (02) 643-0000, (02) 724-5813
Makati Public Safety Dept: (02) 844-3146, (02) 819-3270

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

23 Comments

Denmark says:

12 years ago

Nice yuga! very useful info!
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Mica says:

12 years ago

Thanks for this. Will spread!
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Benchmark says:

12 years ago

Yugatech cares! 2 thumbs up for sir Abe!
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Xxxx says:

12 years ago

Isn’t this a tech site? Stick to it. Peeps come over this site to look see about gadgets and related matters and not about floods etc, we have better sites for that. Stick to your job or create a new one… Abe’s thoughts, there you may write anything you deem important, but until then stick to what your Site is about
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habagat says:

12 years ago

Xxx, Bumabagyo na ganyan ka pa din mag-isip. Eh ikaw ano naitutulong mo sa bayan?
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Kabayan says:

12 years ago

First… to other readers… remember don’t feed the troll!

Second… I don’t see any problem with the post, as you can see it’s about information on how we can help and how to get help.
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MrOrange says:

12 years ago

as they said kung ayaw mo wag mo. If you don’t like what you read then go to another page. You are not being FORCED to read pages from a third world country. sana may way to track the people posting on the sites then block them altogether.
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Phil says:

12 years ago

i agree, i think its not bad, because the info. on the article above posted by sir abe only proved that he has only concern for our kababayan.
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Benchmark says:

12 years ago

Project NOAH is a tech news, its just about time to read about it and be informed for other important numbers.
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lalaland says:

12 years ago

lame… no blackberry and windows phone apps…

but good to see the effort though!!!
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thesporkofdoom says:

12 years ago

Here’s a list compiling the Twitter accounts mentioned in the article.

https://twitter.com/#!/thesporkofdoom/ph-emergencies
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http://runningenthus says:

12 years ago

thanks for sharing the information. a big help for those who need immediate attention.
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matt says:

12 years ago

Thanks for sharing yuga.
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kelso says:

12 years ago

Hello.. anyone can guide me how to determine if a certain area is still flooded… im still in the office.. we tried earlier to pass nagtahan. but it isnt passable as of 8pm…. i did browse from the NOAH project… but the adivisories i found are no longer up to date…. anyone can help how can i be able to find if Nagtahan is already passable. thank you
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kelso says:

12 years ago

i did try it with NOAH… im just new to the system.. and i might not be familiar on how the system works…

newi, thanks sir yuga…
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ba says:

12 years ago

Pafollow din po

@PHClimateX on twitter

and climatex[dot]ph websites (my first post was marked as spam)
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remmar says:

12 years ago

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