Almost 100 dead, the water is not receding. “We are still receiving requests for help.”

A tropical storm hit the main island of Luzon on Thursday, where in one day in some places as much rain fell as usual in two months. On Saturday, rescuers recovered more bodies from areas affected by floods and landslides, raising the death toll to 97, the AFP news agency reported. 21 people are missing.

A day earlier, the authorities reported the death of 82 people, which almost doubled the number of people killed. Previously it was reported that 46 people died.

Rescuers are still trying to reach areas cut off from the world due to flooding. In the hardest-hit Bicol region, some are still waiting for help.

– The floods have not stopped yet. We are still receiving calls for help, said Andre Dizon from the regional police, adding that food and water are running out in particularly affected places.

“The main problem is that many areas are still flooded,” said President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., who visited Bicol on Saturday.

Nearly half a million inhabitants of the country had to leave their homes, and hundreds of towns in the northern Philippines were destroyed, the National Agency for Natural Disasters reported on Saturday. Authorities previously reported that because of storm so far, more than 2.6 million people living in 59 of 82 provinces across the country have been affected.

In the Philippine archipelago, over 1.4 thousand were damaged. households, as well as numerous road sections, bridges, public buildings and flood dams. The value of the damage is estimated at 15.25 million Philippine pesos (over PLN 1 million).

Thunderstorms and typhoons are common in this region at this time of year. However, the Manila Times website noted that – as a recent study showed – they are increasingly forming closer to the coast, intensifying faster and lasting longer over land due to climate change.