3,000 stranded in UST due to 'Ondoy' AN ESTIMATED 3,000 people were stranded Saturday in different buildings in UST due to flooding and continuous heavy rains brought by tropical storm "Ondoy." The Central Student Council said it did not have an official count of the people trapped inside University buildings, relying only on figures provided by the dean's offices.
The following are the CSC's estimates: 200 to 250 people in Saint Raymund's Building; 100 to 150 in Roque Rua�o (Engineering) Building, 350 in Beato Angelico (Architecture and Fine Arts) Building, 400 to 450 at the Tan Yan Kee Student Center, 900 at the Alfredo M. Velayo College of Accountancy and multi-deck carpark, and 250 at the Albertus Magnus (Education) Building.
"Ondoy" made landfall on the eastern side of Infanta, Quezon early Saturday morning based on the monitoring of the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical Astronomical Administration.
Early on Saturday, the Office of the Secretary General announced that it was giving college deans the prerogative to suspend classes given the weather disturbance. Metro Manila was already placed under Signal No. 1.
As a result, classes were suspended at the Faculty of Arts and Letters at 10 a.m. when flood waters were already gutter-deep. Nursing did not call off classes until 12 noon.
At 7:30 p.m., CSC
public relations officer Margielyn Asilo said food and water had yet to be delivered to other buildings except Tan Yan Kee. Only the Students' Center and the Central Library had power supply, leaving stranded people in other buildings without electricity, according to a security guard.
"Ang tagal tagal nga ng pagkain," Asilo said, adding that waist-deep flood may have caused the delay.
Food given ranged from cup noodles to fast food spaghetti.
Asilo said seminarians also cooked arroz caldo, which the CSC would distribute to people at St. Raymund's, Roque Rua�o, and Beato Angelico.
Asilo said the plan was to transfer all stranded people in other buildings to Tan Yan Kee. "
But they [people] are objecting because it is already too dark and dangerous," she said.
Prinz P. Magtulis (Photos courtesy of Jale Nonan)
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