WITH the onset of rainy season, the Cagayan de Oro City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Department (CDRRMD) vowed to make the public fully aware for any possible disasters coming.

Allan Porcadilla, CDRRMD officer-in-charge, said they will test Thursday, June 8, and Friday, June 9 all its flood warning system as part of its preparations for the rainy season.

Scheduled for testing on Thursday is the warning system in Barangay Balulang from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. and in Barangay Pagatpat from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. While Barangay Bonbon and Barangay Consolacion will conduct its testing on Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., respectively.

Alarm bells will also be audible at the city hall area from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Friday.

The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) announced on May 30 that there were widespread rainfalls in the past weeks, and that Metro Manila and the western side of the country are having rains and thunderstorms.

The Pagasa also noted that most parts of the country are likely to experience near to above normal rainfall conditions in two months time, June and July.

The city's flood warning systems were made possible through the Northern Mindanao Project, an undertaking hatched by National Disaster Management Institute in partnership with the Pagasa and the CDRRMO.

The partnership has caused a number of apparatuses programmed to warn the city’s communities of any impending flashfloods in various areas in the locality.