The rains that occurred on the night of this Sunday, October 6, caused serious damage in Managua. The capital’s Mayor’s Office reported overflowing channels, flooded homes and several fallen trees.
The El Dorado and El Paraisito channels were some of those that were overflowed due to the rainfall recorded this Sunday night.
The Mayor’s Office of Managua detailed, through its social networks, that it had to mobilize collaborators from the municipality on Sunday night, after the rains, to clean the bridge that connects the Héroes de la Insurrección track, formerly the Juan track. Pablo II, for the amount of garbage and sediment that obstructed the road after the overflowing of the El Dorado channel, which connects with the Eastern channel.
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The overflowing of the El Paraisito channel, which also connects with the Eastern channel, caused serious damage to several homes, which were flooded and lost several of their assets due to the currents that entered their properties.
A family from the area surrounding the El Paraisito traffic lights, according to official media, stated that after the flooding of their home, gates, vehicles, furniture and part of the wall of the home were damaged.
Two other families from the Jorge Dimitrov neighborhoods, in District One, in Managua, also reported flooding in their homes in an interview with official media. The currents entered those properties, flooded the buildings and damaged beds, clothing and furniture.
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In the Israel Galeano neighborhood and Manuel Fernández neighborhood, located in District Seven of Managua, the capital commune received and attended to the fall of a tree. The municipality of Managua, through social networks, shared photos in which the trees can be seen obstructing the roads and even the entrances of some homes in those neighborhoods, where they mobilized teams of collaborators to remove them.
In the area of Paseo Xolotlán and the Rubén Darío National Theater, several vehicles were stuck due to currents. In photographs posted on social networks, pedestrians can be seen walking in the flooded areas in that sector, where the water reached their knees.
Managua is still vulnerable
Ortega’s Fidel Moreno, general secretary of the Managua Mayor’s Office, last week, through official media, assured that Managua “has improved” in relation to the floods.
He stated that rains that generate accumulated 30 to 40 millimeters per hour “no longer cause crises,” although he acknowledged that rainfall with accumulated amounts greater than that amount does cause “problems.”
Moreno acknowledged that the capital has to “continue expanding drainage works” and work to ensure that there is not so much garbage in channels and other drainage systems, since this reduces their capacity and leads to overflows and flooding.
