People Flee Another Typhoon..........

A man struggles to drag recovered belongings through mud caused by Typhoon Ketsana, locally known as Ondoy, as he prepares to move to an evacuation centre in Montalban Rizal, west of Manila October 2, 2009. The Philippines declared a nationwide state of calamity on Friday as a "super typhoon" bore down a week after flash floods killed nearly 300 people in and around Manila. Typhoon Parma, about 100 miles east of Luzon, was gaining strength as it churned west-northwest toward the mainland, bringing heavy rain. Heavy rain drenched mountainous coastal regions in the northeast as Typhoon Parma tracked ominously toward the coast, dropping heavy rain on areas still saturated from the worst flooding in 40 years.

Parma was forecast to hit the east coast Saturday, packing sustained winds of up to 120 mph and gusts up to 140 mph. Officials fear it may develop into a "super-typhoon," the government's weather bureau said.