Homeowners begin rebuilding
Life in the typhoon battered communities is returning to normalcy as homeowners have begun the difficult task of repairing their damaged houses, and for many rebuilding their houses.
According to the Provincial Disaster Coordinating Council (PDCC), to date some 22000 houses have been reported as totally destroyed and some 48,000 houses as partially destroyed.
At presstime, San Carlos City tops the list with 6,800 houses as totally destroyed and 10,320 as partially damaged houses followed by Lingayen that reported 3,345 houses totally destroyed and 6,283 partially damaged.
Bugallon reported 2,826 totally destroyed and 6,663 partially destroyed houses.
Other towns that reported high incidence of destroyed houses include Infanta with 1,537 totally destroyed and 4,330 partially damaged; Labrador with 1,413 totally destroyed and 2,837 partially destroyed; Mangaldan with 1,231 totally destroyed and 2,837 partially destroyed.
San Fabian reported 1,188 totally destroyed houses and 2,284 partially destroyed while Binmaley is rated eighth most devastated town with 1,055 totally destroyed houses and 8,144 partially destroyed.
The towns of Calasiao and Dasol were listed as among the 10 that had the highest estimated damages to houses with 1,046 and 626 totally destroyed and 4,278 and 443 partially destroyed houses respectively.
Paterno Orduña, executive officer of the PDCC, estimated that close to P1 billion may be spent by homeowners collectively assuming that P50,000 is all that’s needed to rebuild a totally destroyed house and P25,000 for repairs of partially damaged houses.
Consequently, reports reaching the council indicate that construction material stores have started to increase their prices evidently taking advantage of the sudden high demand for the materials.
This prompted Gov. Amado Espino Jr. to air his appeal to business establishments over DWPR, the only radio station in Pangasinan that survived the onslaught of the typhoon, not to exploit the emergency situation that affected the whole province. -LM
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