Pampanga town holds key to NLEx’s battle with flood

(First of two parts) CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, PAMPANGA, Philippines — While her neighbors at Barangay Santa Monica in San Simon, Pampanga, queued for food packs as 0.60-meter (2-foot-deep) floodwaters receded last week, Bella Parungao scouted for an apartment to relocate to in the meantime. “[Our community] received all the miseries,” Parungao, 40, said in