The eastern region of Cuba is currently under a tropical depression, causing abundant rains and floods.
Lima, Peru – the Provincial Chief of Operations, Relief and Aquatic Security in Santiago de Cuba, Aris Arias Batalla, reported this Saturday afternoon about the overflow of the river follows in that province, where several people were trapped.
“A few minutes ago the firefighters and rescuers of Command 4 (Vista Alegre) were activated. Overflow of the river follows. People trapped in covers of facilities belonging to the Fantasy Park,” reported the manager On Facebook.
According to Arias Battle, rescue and rescue teams were headed towards the flood zone for the safe extraction of incommunicado people.
At 3:25 pm (local time of Cuba) the source confirmed that, from the scene, two of the five people caught were rescued by life personnel belonging to the Red Cross of the island.
Subsequently, around 3:40 pm the other three people were rescued by the lifeguards of the town. Even rescue and rescue technicians have not reached the site due to the distance and complexity of the town that includes dangerous steps of the grown rivers.
“Already the five people with danger are safe. The lifeguards perform an exhaustive area evaluation to evacuate other cases if necessary,” said Arias Battles.
The eastern region of Cuba is currently affected by a tropical depression that travels through the north of the archipelago, causing abundant rains and floods.
This same Saturday, the forecast center assigned to the Institute of Meteorology (INSMET) in Cuba predicted that the system could evolve tropical storm during the night.
A report of the state entity He points out that the extensive area of low pressures associated with an active tropical wave, continued to win in organization and intensity during the last hours, becoming on the morning of September 27 into a tropical depression.
According to the INSMET, about noon, the predominance of clouds could be appreciated in the satellite images in much of the eastern half of Cuba, with rainy areas and storms disorganized from the Bahamas to the northern portion of the Central Caribbean Sea.
At 11.00 am the tropical depression was about 180 kilometers south-southwest of the central region of the Bahamas, with a center located on the 22.0 degrees of north latitude and 76.2 degrees of west longitude.
The system has maximum sustained winds of 55 kilometers per hour, with upper gusts and a central pressure of 1.005 hectopascal. It moves slowly to the northwest at a speed of nine kilometers per hour.
“This system will continue to generate instability, with high relative humidity values in its geographical environment and when combined with other local scale factors and the orography of the Cuban East, it will maintain numerous showers, rains and thunderstorms From Camagüey to Guantanamo, those who will run into the central region in the afternoon, ”warns the insmet.
