
Two residents and a rescuer hold on to a rope as they wade through waist-deep floodwaters in Cagayan de Oro City at the height of the flash floods that swept through the region on Friday night. They were the lucky ones. At least 200 others did not last the night. Cagayan de Oro was the center of the storm, 23 of its barangays were submerged in floodwaters. AP