article_snippet.sent: Authorities took preemptive steps to keep people safe such as barring outdoor activities like swimming, surfing, diving and boating in some locales, as well as a number of precautionary evacuations.
article_snippet.sent: Gabriel Llave, a disaster official, told PNA that tourists who arrive Saturday in and around the coastal town of Aurora "will not be accepted by the owners of hotels, resorts, inns and the like ... and will be advised to return to resorts, inns and the like respective places.
article_snippet.sent: Aldczar Aurelio, a meteorologist with the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), said a tropical storm was centered 200 miles southwest of Aurora province as of 5 p.m. (5 a.m. ET) and heading west at a 12.5 mph clip.
article_snippet.sent: a tropical storm's expected to make landfall Sunday morning on the southeastern coast of Aurora province and be out of the Philippines by Monday.
article_snippet.sent: Ahead of a tropical storm.
article_snippet.sent: Isabela Gov. Faustino Dry III warned Saturday that residents should act as if this will be "no ordinary typhoon.
article_snippet.sent: Dry told PNA, "We do not know what the impact will be once the impact will make landfall.