(CNN) -- Thousands of Filipinos who live near coastlines and mountainous areas were evacuated Friday as the storm-battered country braced for Typhoon Parma, which is expected to make landfall Saturday.
Filipino children reach for handouts at a flood evacuation center near the capital Manila
Parma, known locally as Typhoon Pepeng, comes on the heels of a weekend storm that killed hundreds in the Philippines and left most of Manila under water.
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo placed the country "under the state of calamity" in preparation for Parma's landfall. She ordered evacuations as a precautionary measure against floods and landslides, and asked weather officials to issue an hourly update. She also urged local governments to implement forced evacuations if need be.
The order focuses on Camarines Norte, Aurora, northern Quezon, Polillo Island, Isabela and Cagayan.
Thousands have been evacuated in Isabela and rescue crews have a "standing order to use force if necessary" to move adults and children, said Paul Fernandez, who is overseeing disaster relief in Isabela. The government is providing the province with relief funds, he said.
Evacuees are being taken to schools and warehouses on higher ground, he said.
Macapagal-Arroyo said disaster-relief crews in vulnerable areas must be equipped with life-saving kits, boats, portable generators and trucks.
Parma had maximum sustained winds of 138 mph (222 km/hr), said Jennifer Delgado, CNN meteorologist. It is likely to move slow with torrential rainfall and strong winds, she said.
Within the next 24 hours, Parma could develop into a super typhoon, the Philippines weather bureau said.
The typhoon tipped back and forth between typhoon and super typhoon status Thursday. Meteorologists consider a super typhoon to be one with sustained winds of about 150 mph (241 km/hr). It is expected to bring heavy rainfall and major property damage to the Philippines on Saturday, Delgado said.
"Landslides and mudslides are a great possibility," she said. The five-day tracking map shows the storm south of Taiwan on Monday.
Tropical Storm Ketsana, which swallowed whole houses and buses over the weekend, killed 246 in the Philippines. It later strengthened into a typhoon. An additional 38 are missing, the National Disaster
The storm affected nearly 2 million people and forced the evacuation of 567,000.
At one point, 80 percent of the capital, Manila, was under water after experiencing the heaviest rainfall in 40 years
According to the National Centre for Hydrometeorology Forecast Centre, Parma was around 890km East-Northeast of the Hoang Sa Archipelago (Paracel Islands) on the afternoon of October 4. The strongest winds near the eye reached level 11-12 and, at time, up to 13-14.
The typhoon is forecast to move slowly to the Northwest at a speed of 5km per hour and will gain strength to reach level 12 by October 5.
In the next 24-48 hours, Parma may move slowly to the West and West–Southwest at the speed of 5km per hour. The typhoon’s eye will be 780km from the Paracel Islands by the afternoon of October 6.
The Forecast Centre said that, owing to other environment factors like the appearance of Tropical Storm Melor off the coast of the Philippines, the development of Parma may change.
The Central Steering Board for Flood and Storm Control on October 4 urgently asked coastal provinces from Quang Ninh to Quang Ngai to prepare for the new storm.
On October 3, Parma hit the Philippines, causing landslides and floods, killing at least 16 people. Parma hit just eight days after Typhoon Ketsana, which damaged Manila and 25 other provinces in the Philippines, causing the worst floods in the last four decades and killing at least 288 people.
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