A Yard Full

The rain-triggered landslides late Thursday and early Friday were the latest natural disaster to hit the Philippines, bringing to more than 600 the total death toll of back-to-back storms that began pummeling the main island of Luzon Sept. 26, causing the worst flooding in more than 40 years. Rescuers use backhoe to search for possible survivors as the search and retrieval operations entered its third day Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009 in La Trinidad town, Benguet province, north of Manila, Philippines, after a mountainslide swept away dozens of houses at the height of typhoon Parma.