{"id":380,"date":"2009-11-08T05:11:56","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T19:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=380"},"modified":"2009-11-08T05:11:56","modified_gmt":"2009-11-07T19:11:56","slug":"actor-saves-real-life-damsel-in-distress-during-manila-flood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=380","title":{"rendered":"Actor saves real-life damsel in distress during Manila flood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite>September 29, 2009 &#8211; 2:27PM<\/cite> (Associated Press)<\/p>\n<p>A popular Philippine actress cried out for help from a rooftop as a tropical storm roared and floodwaters rose menacingly. Then an actor emerged from nowhere on a speedboat and swept her to safety.<\/p>\n<p>A romantic scene from a movie?<\/p>\n<p>No, it was the real-life travails of young actress <strong>Christine Reyes<\/strong>. Her rescue by movie and TV heartthrob <strong>Richard Gutierrez<\/strong> as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/world\/philippine-flood-crisis-deepens-as-death-toll-hits-240-20090929-gaj8.html\">Tropical Storm Ketsana raged across the northern Philippines<\/a> was one of the happier moments of the disaster that left over 250 dead and 3 million people homeless.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As the storm blew and set off the worst flooding in the capital in more than four decades, Reyes climbed to the roof of her two-story house in upscale Provident Village in hard-hit Marikina City on Saturday with her mother and two young siblings.<\/p>\n<p>Marooned for hours, she made a frantic call for help to ABS-CBN TV network with her mobile phone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the rains do not stop, the water will reach the roof. We do not know what to do. My mother doesn&#8217;t know how to swim,&#8221; she said, weeping.<\/p>\n<p>Gutierrez, a close friend and Reyes&#8217; co-star in an upcoming movie, heard of her plight, borrowed a speedboat and went to the rescue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We couldn&#8217;t go fast because of the strong currents and floating cars,&#8221; Gutierrez told GMA TV Network on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Reaching Reyes&#8217; house, he struggled to tie the boat to a tree amid the churning waters, climbed into her house and eventually whisked her to safety.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought it was our ending but I did not lose hope,&#8221; Reyes said, thanking Gutierrez. &#8220;Let us help those who have not yet been rescued.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>About 8,000 people have been rescued by troops and civilian volunteers from rooftops and isolated villages. At least 32 people remain missing.<\/p>\n<p>The houses of more than 450,000 people were inundated in the storm, which dumped more than a month&#8217;s worth of rain in just 12 hours. Some 115,000 displaced people were brought to about 200 schools, churches and other evacuation shelters. \u2013 ? <strong>AP<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 29, 2009 &#8211; 2:27PM (Associated Press) A popular Philippine actress cried out for help from a rooftop as a tropical storm roared and floodwaters rose menacingly. Then an actor emerged from nowhere on a speedboat and swept her to safety. A romantic scene from a movie? No, it was the real-life travails of young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}