 Internet cafés, entertainment plazas, banks, food stores, building agencies and stores were soaked into flood and mud.Compared to other storm-hit areas in the Philippines, Marikina City, was the most devastated region where almost all of the city's area was submerged in water not more than ten feet and tons of knee-deep mud.During the typhoon, Marikina River broke off from its banks and transformed streets into rivers of flood.