FLORIDABLANCA -- Residents of purok 8 at sitio Santol, Barangay San Jose have expressed fears of being isolated after a creek that "went wild" during the onslaught of Typhoon Ondoy, which eroded portions of a vital road that links them to the town proper and other parts of the province.

In his letter to Mayor Eduardo Guerrero, lawyer Jaime Estrabillo, one of the affected property owners in the area, appealed for assistance for the immediate reinforcement of the endangered portions of the 400-meter barangay road.

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In another letter to the mayor, barangay resident Rufino Cervantes noted that during the recent typhoons which brought heavy rains, the road was damaged.

"The barangay road leading to our properties was partly eaten up by the wayward flow of a creek," Cervantes stated.

"We are worried that if this problem is not attended to, more erosion will occur and destroy the road and thus deprive us of our only access to our properties," he added.

He noted: "While the road is still passable, we feed that the road which is about six meters high from the creek, has become so dangerous that our lives are at stake whenever we negotiate it."

The Municipal Government reportedly sent to the site some concrete pipes to be laid along the side of the barangay road and filled up with solid so as to serve as fortification. However, the pipes have not been installed up to present.