Footage shows rescuers evacuating a family on a lifeboat when the flood water reached the second floor of homes in Marikina City, the Philippines today (November 12) during Typhoon Vamco.

Thousands of residents had to be rescued from the city in Metro Manila when the Marikina River overflowed following torrential rain throughout the night.

Typhoon Vamco made landfall in the Quezon province on Luzon island on Tuesday evening before leaving the region and moving towards the capital Manila, home to more than two million people, where it made landfall again.

The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) said Thursday that it has yet to determine the number of casualties from typhoon Vamco, or Ulysses, as all pertinent data are still being consolidated.

The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said Vamco was a Category Two typhoon and made a ‘signal 3’ warning, with signal 5 being the highest.

They warned of ‘’heavy damage to high-risk structures’’ and ‘’increasing damage to old, dilapidated residential structures, and houses of light materials.”

The agency said there would be ‘’widespread disruption of electrical power and communication services’’.

The storm comes just over a week after Typhoon Goni, also known as Typhoon Rolly, killed 74 people and destroyed thousands of homes in the Philippines when it made landfall on November 1.