<span style="color: #222222;">In the Philippines, flash floods after two days of heavy rains in the country forced roughly 45,000 people into evacuation centres.<br />''<br />'' Authorities said that the search is on for the missing 23 people. Most of the deaths were caused by drowning from flash floods.<br />''<br />''Images on social media show coast guard, police and fire personnel wading through waist-deep floods and carrying residents along landslide-hit areas. Some roads were flooded by overflowing rivers nearby.<br />''<br />''Rescue operations continued and damage to agriculture and livestock are being assessed.<br />''<br />''There was no tropical storm in the mostly Catholic nation's most important holiday. But a weather phenomenon where warm and cold winds meet, caused rain clouds to form in southern Philippines.</span><br />