YUMUL ON FLOOD SUIT: 'BLAME RAIN, NOT US'

“Blame it on the rain, not us.” This was the terse reply of Department of Science and Technology (DoST) Undersecretary Graciano Yumul when asked yesterday to react on the class suit reportedly being prepared by officials of flood-tormented Bulacan against agencies deemed responsible for releasing water from dams during recent typhoons.

Yumul, also the supervising official of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), insisted that massive flooding in Bulacan was a result of heavy rainfall and not the release of excess water from Angat dam.