President Luis Abinader yesterday announced a series of measures aimed at counteracting the effects of the rains that affect the country, while the Dominican Institute of Meteorology (Indomet) predicts that the meteorological pattern will continue until next week throughout the national territory.
“The important thing is prevention, especially of the rains that can cause damage at this time; that the floods do not cause the loss of human life, and that is what we are working on, that the death of no Dominican is not caused and that is the prevention work that we are doing today,” said the president during a meeting with institutions of relief agencies and city councils.
For his part, the director of the Emergency Operations Center (COE), Juan Manuel Méndez, said that since significant rainfall is expected today, Monday and Tuesday, the governor instructed the ministries of Public Works, Health Public, as well as the Economic Kitchens, Social Plan, city councils and others activate their emergency plans to provide immediate responses to those who need them.
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Méndez pointed out that the COE said that it maintains the yellow alert levels for the provinces: Puerto Plata, María Trinidad Sánchez, Espaillat, Hato Mayor, El Seibo, Samaná, Duarte, Hermanas Mirabal and La Altagracia and in green: El Gran Santo Domingo, La Vega, San Cristóbal, Montecristi, Santiago and San Pedro de Macorís.
Olmedo Caba answers questions to journalists about dam levels.
“Because the atmosphere is very dynamic, we ask the population not to be careless, any situation that may arise can call 9114 or 809-472-0909. I come back and repeat, the atmosphere is very dynamic and the levels of alerts that we are issuing at this moment can vary at any time,” the official said.
He added that the population must be responsive to the information issued by the authorities.
Meeting
The meeting with the head of state, held at the COE headquarters, began around 1:00 in the afternoon and ended an hour and a half later.
There were attended by the Ministers of Public Works, Deligne Ascensión, Administrative of the Presidency, Andrés Bautista; of Defense, Lieutenant General Carlos Antonio Fernández Onofre and of Health, Víctor Atallah, as well as the directors of Civil Defense, the Dominican Institute of Meteorology (Indomet), the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources (Indrhi), the National Institute of Drinking Water and Sewers (Inapa), of the Santo Domingo Aqueduct and Sewer Corporation (Caasd), of Economic Canteens and Social Assistance Plan of the Presidency. Also the mayors of the National District, Santo Domingo Este, Santo Domingo Norte, Santo Domingo Oeste and the municipalities of Los Alcarrizos, Boca Chica, La Victoria, Guerra and Pedro Brand.
Meteorology
Indomet reported that frequent downpours, thunderstorms and gusts of wind will continue over much of the country today, rains that are due to a tropical disturbance.
In this sense, the governing entity recommended operators of fragile, small and medium-sized vessels to remain in port, due to abnormal winds and waves of 7 to 9 feet near the coast, being higher, out to sea.
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Dams
Olmedo Caba, director of Indrhi, indicated that the dams are capable of receiving the volumes anticipated by Indomet. ”The dams are prepared based on a protocol that has been worked on for several days,” he explained.
