479 families flee floods in Iloilo City

ILOILO CITY — Torrential rains enhanced by the Southwest Monsoon (Habagat) inundated 56 barangays in Iloilo City on Monday night, forcing hundreds of families to flee their homes and seek shelter. The downpour intensified at 8:10 p.m., prompting the city’s disaster monitoring sensors to record extreme hourly rainfall rates and issue a Violet Alert, the