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© AP/Bullit MarquezA rescuer helps a resident to go to a safer area after heavy rains spawned by Tropical Storm Fung-Wong flooded Marikina city, east of Manila, Philippines and most parts of the metropolis Friday, Sept. 19, 2014
Thirteen people are now dead and 18 injured in two countries as tens of thousands have been forced from their homes due to Tropical Storm Fung-wong, which lashed the Philippines and then Taiwan with extremely heavy rainfall.

The Philippine government's National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council says 425 houses have been destroyed and another 1,710 damaged due to the storm, which was called "Mario" in the Philippines.

The storm's torrential rains, which flooded much of the Philippine capital, battered the country's northern provinces Saturday. The provinces of Ilocos Norte and Ilocos Sur, north of Manila on the far northwestern coast of the main island of Luzon, account for more than half of the damaged and destroyed houses.

More than 800,000 residents of metropolitan Manila and nearby provinces were affected as their communities were inundated by floodwaters, according to local officials. In the capital city, at least 86,000 people were displaced in one of the worst floods in years to hit this sprawling metropolis of some 12 million people. About 205,000 residents were displaced by the storm countrywide.

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The NDRRMC report says nine people have died due to drownings, two by electrocution and one due to a head injury, for a total of 12 fatalities. The deaths were concentrated around Metro Manila and areas to the south and southeast in southern Luzon -- ironically, areas that received less rainfall than farther north. Fourteen people were injured in the Philippines.
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Gov. Imee Marcos of Ilocos Norte province said fierce winds and heavy rains battered her province for more than 12 hours, blowing away roofs, toppling trees and flooding highways.

"I am basically holed up in my bedroom with a generator and several computers and telephones because I can't even cross the street," she told The Associated Press Saturday by telephone from the provincial capital of Laoag, about 400 kilometers (290 miles) north of Manila.

"Basically I told everyone to hunker down. There is very little we can do," she said.

She said floodwaters and fallen trees have cut off some highways to her province. Rescuers were headed to those trapped by the flooding, and relief supplies were being distributed, she said. A 56-year-old woman suffered a head injury and a 72-year-old woman was electrocuted in her province, according to the NDRRMC's situation report. Both survived. There have been no confirmed deaths in Ilocos Norte, according to the agency.

"Every time there is a little rain we have trouble, and now this is more than a little rain so it's really been difficult," Marcos said, adding that the last time the province experienced something similar was 10 years ago.
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Laoag reported a peak wind gust of 60 mph during the storm's passage. Rain continued Sunday even after the tropical storm itself had moved on to Taiwan, and the Laoag observation site had received 457.1 millimeters (18.00 inches) of rain in the 78-hour period ending at 8 p.m. local time (8 a.m. EDT) Sunday.

Dirty water flowed into the ground floors of many homes, sending residents scrambling to upper floors and onto roofs.

The rain and an unrelated radar malfunction combined to divert, delay or cancel dozens of domestic and international flights at Manila's airport.
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Government offices in the capital and 15 provinces were closed Friday and the Philippine Stock Exchange suspended trading.

Government forecasters said nearly a month's worth of rain fell overnight.

The storm had exited Philippine territory by Sunday and made a sharp turn northward toward Taiwan and eastern China.

As of late Monday, the NDRRMC estimated damage to infrastructure and agriculture at 340 million Philippine pesos, or about $7.6 million.

Last week, Typhoon Kalmaegi hit the same northern Philippine region, leaving eight people dead and displacing over 366,000.

Taiwan: Nearly 40 Inches of Rain

Taiwan's Central Emergency Operations Center said a 50-year-old man was washed away in Taitung County while clearing a drain in front of his house in Beinan Township. A 62-year-old man in the same township was hit by fallen rocks and suffered a broken left tibia.

Three other people were injured elsewhere in Taiwan -- two from falling off scooters in the same city in separate incidents just 29 minutes apart. The third injury, from a collapsing fence in Taipei, was minor.

The Department of Civil Affairs said about 3,300 people were evacuated from their homes across Taiwan, mainly on the east coast; the vast majority of them went to public shelters.

Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau said one remote observation site in the mountains of southern Taiwan recorded 995 millimeters, or nearly 40 inches, of rain Saturday through late Monday morning local time.