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SPECIAL REPORT: By the time PAGASA sounded the alarm, Manila’s students were already in schools

A closer look at why the rainfall warning came late, and why classes couldn’t have been suspended sooner There were no rainfall warnings hanging over Metro Manila in the early hours of Wednesday, September 9, even as clouds gathered thick and low across the region overnight. Then, without a single alert to prepare for it, heavy rain suddenly poured down across the…

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