Nov. 1 (Bloomberg) -- The Philippines was recovering today after Typhoon Mirinae passed across Manila and southern Luzon yesterday, leaving 14 people dead and four missing, the National Disaster Coordinating Council said in its 8 a.m. bulletin.

“We’re back to normal,” Admiral Wilfredo Tamayo, commandant of the Coast Guard, said in a phone interview. The Coast Guard allowed vessels to sail as soon as the weather bureau lifted the storm warning signals late yesterday, clearing seaports of stranded passengers that reached as high as 8,300, Tamayo said.

The typhoon coincided with the All-Saints weekend, when many Filipinos travel to their home provinces in the archipelago of more than 7,000 islands. Many visit cemeteries to pay respects to their ancestors. Others vacation during the three- day weekend.

Mirinae, which yesterday knocked out power, washed away a bridge and toppled trees, was 450 kilometers (279 miles) west southwest of Manila at 2 a.m. local time, according to the weather bureau’s latest bulletin at 5 a.m. local time. The storm had weakened to 85 kilometers an hour from as strong as 150 kilometers yesterday.

The disaster coordinating council reported flooding in parts of the capital and provinces in Laguna and Bicol.

Some of the areas that were badly flooded after tropical cyclone Ketsana, which carried the heaviest rainfall in at least 40 years on Sept. 26, remained underwater after Mirinae.

The Philippines has been battered by more than 10 cyclones this year, killing about 1,100 people. More than 121,000 remain in evacuation centers after cyclones Ketsana and Parma lashed the country in the past month. Hundreds were killed in floods and landslides and farm damage forced the world’s biggest importer of rice to schedule a supply auction for this week.

Ketsana left about 80 percent of Manila, a city of almost 12 million people, underwater.

To contact the reporter on this story: Clarissa Batino in Manila at cbatino@bloomberg.net

Last Updated: October 31, 2009 21:23 EDT