This is the dramatic moment rescuers helped a woman struggling to cross a flooded street in the Philippines.

Video shows the resident holding onto a rope as she waded through surging floodwater in Binan City, Laguna province during Tropical Storm Trami on October 24.

Volunteers kept her steady as the powerful currents nearly swept her away.

Trami, known locally as Kristine, intensified into a severe tropical storm as it churned over the Philippine Sea on October 23.

Philippine weather agency PAGASA said it made landfall over Isabela province in the country's northeast at 12:30am on Thursday, October 24.

Authorities said at least 26 people have died and thousands have fled to evacuation shelters as storm warnings were raised across the northern and central parts of the country.