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Storm surge from Manila Bay floods Roxas Blvd, now impassable
The US Embassy on Roxas Blvd. appeared to TV news viewers like it had merged with Manila Bay Tuesday morning. Floodwaters had risen halfway up its front gate, perhaps four feet, by midmorning. Much of Roxas Boulevard was similarly submerged, as well as United Nations Avenue and other areas adjacent to the bay. A storm surge in the bay caused by Typhoon Pedring's ferociously strong winds, and not simply rainwater, could have produced the flood, according to DOST-PAGASA Undersecretary Graciano Yumul on Balitanghali.
Typhoon winds drive Manila Bay's seawater into Roxas Blvd, which is now only passable by boat. Jess Castillo via Youscoop
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