High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2012 Philippine Floods, informally known as Typhoon Habagat (monsoon), was an 8-day period of intense raining and thunder storms in the Philippines from August 1 to August 8, 2012. It affected particularly the National Capital Region, The provinces of the CALABARZON Region, namely, Quezon, Cavite, Laguna and Rizal, and the provinces of Region 3, namely, Bulacan, Pampanga and Bataan. It is not actually a typhoon, but a strong movement of the Southwest Monsoon (Tagalog: Habagat) caused by the pull of the Typhoon Saola (Gener) from August 1 to August 3 and was further enhanced and strengthened by the Typhoon Haikui. However, it is often considered as a typhoon because of the damage it caused, which is yet the heaviest damage done by intense raining since the intense rainings in September 2009, when Typhoon Ketsana hit Metro Manila. The intense, nonstop rains caused the Marikina River to overflow, and destroyed the same places that were ruined by Typhoon Ketsana in 2009. Moreover, it also caused a landslide in the Commonwealth Area, and also caused the collapse of the Northbound side of the Marcos Highway.