This possibility emerged as the MMDA team, part of the Malacañang Mercy Mission to Mayon, still have to build 400 emergency shelters for the victims of typhoon Reming, which left hundreds homeless.

"Despite the repercussions of the string of natural calamities that seriously devastated most parts of the region, we have managed to pull through," MMDA Chairman Bayani Fernando said yesterday.

The MMDA chief said the workers, mostly coming from the construction and sidewalk clearing units of the agency, have been mobilized to rehabilitate communities and rebuild infrastructure destroyed by the typhoon.

The MMDA team has already constructed a total of 200 emergency shelters for the residents of Barangay Tayaan in Legazpi City, Albay.

Bayani expects the team to begin putting up today 200 more of the shelters for the typhoon victims.

The mission, composed of a 200-vehicle convoy, pushed for the region from Manila last week, carrying some 50 tons of construction materials, equipment, food, medicine and other provisions.

Aside from clearing the roadways of accumulated debris and sludge of mud, the MMDA team also refurbished the lampposts, pedestals, curbs and four bridges – the Pinaric, Sagumayon, Pinorio and Ruran spans.

The team also fixed and untangled seven kilometers of electric and telephone wires blocking the roadways and repainted and installed 250 traffic road signs damaged during the typhoon.

A temporary dump site was also constructed by the MMDA workers in Legazpi City to address the sanitation problems plaguing some of the towns in the region.