Typhoon survivors wait for aid in the Philippines
No dry clothes
Dalupan said her daughters, aged eight months and four years, had started coughing after being drenched during the storm and that their clothes were still wet.
"But we have nothing to change into," she said.
Marasigan, the disaster agency official, said a military plane-load of food aid was flown to the region on Friday to augment supplies already there.
But Cagayan Valley, a mostly farming region, was not as badly affected as the Cordillera highlands, she said.
"The damage in the Cordilleras was heavy," she said, with torrential rain unleashing landslides across the region.
"We have been saddened to learn that some people were hit by landslides as they fled their homes."
More than 50,000 people in typhoon-affected areas in the north had received aid, although the total number of people who needed help was not known.
Communication lines have yet to be restored in three out of six Cordillera provinces and so the extent of the typhoon's fallout there could not yet be determined, Marasigan said.
The Philippine islands are often the first major landmass to be hit by storms that generate over the Pacific Ocean. The Southeast Asian archipelago endures about 20 major storms each year, many of them deadly.
The most powerful and deadliest was Haiyan, which destroyed entire towns in heavily populated areas of the central Philippines in November 2013.
Haima was the second typhoon to hit the northern Philippines in a week, after Sarika struck on Sunday claiming at least one life and leaving three people missing.
Haima hit Hong Kong and the southern Chinese mainland on Friday, after weakening into a typhoon with wind speeds of 145 kilometres (90 miles) an hour.
More than 700 flights in and out of Hong Kong were cancelled or delayed as the city's usually frenetic streets were deserted with schools closed and other precautions put in place under a Number 8 storm signal, the third-highest warning level.
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