People flock to Dangwa to buy flowers for Valentine’s Day

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00:00 'Tis the eve of Love's Holiday. As such, the prices of stems and floral arrangements are at their peak.

00:06 Our Noel Talacay is at the Mecca for flowers in the Mega City to get us up to speed on how much a stem,

00:12 a bouquet, or a spiffy arrangement could fetch right now. Good evening, Noel!

00:25 Good evening, Monique! Even up to now, with barely two hours left before Valentine's Day,

00:31 there are still many who want to go here in Dangua just to buy flowers for tomorrow's big occasion.

00:39 And that surge of Dangua goers, and that caused heavy traffic in some streets leading to Dangua.

00:49 At 4 o'clock this afternoon, traffic along Maria Clara Street going to Dangua started to build up.

00:56 The same traffic situation along Laksin Avenue. According to one of the officials of Barangay 490 in Manila,

01:03 the traffic situation in Dangua today went from bad to worse, and it will last until tomorrow afternoon.

01:10 This is the beginning of the traffic, which is very heavy. Motorbikes. When we go out to the office, it's 13.

01:19 Especially tomorrow, it's still the same.

01:20 He also observed that more young people have come to Dangua this afternoon, buying flowers for Valentine's Day.

01:28 It's a good thing for the young people who are buying flowers. It's a good thing that they're here.

01:36 That's the only reason why there's traffic and there are riders.

01:39 A feeling shared by flower vendors in Dangua. According to the flower vendors,

01:44 today they were flooded by customers and hope this extends tomorrow on Valentine's Day.

01:50 Now, on the 13th, there are only a few people buying flowers.

01:55 Yesterday, there were one or two people on the street. Now, there are a lot.

02:01 Anton, a student, took advantage of the Valentine's rush in Dangua.

02:07 He said after school, he went to Dangua immediately for a bouquet of sunflowers.

02:13 He stressed that sunflowers are the favorite flowers of his girlfriend.

02:17 Because we live far from each other, if I buy flowers here, they can rot.

02:33 Monique, as for the prices right now, there's no changes yet of the prices.

02:42 And the vendors can't tell yet if tomorrow, if there will be a drop of prices or it will remain the prices.

02:50 Right now, Monique, I'm here at one of the stalls in Dangua.

02:54 For example, if you're going to buy this flower, this is just cost of 150 pesos.

03:01 Monique?

03:03 Many thanks, Noelle Talacay.