East of Cuba has been beaten by intense floods during the early hours of this Sunday, caused by A tropical depression that has left its wake streets, housing underwater and incommunicado communities.
The provinces of Santiago de Cuba and Guantanamo are the most affected, where the vulnerability of urban infrastructure and the fragility of emergency solutions have been exposed again to the force of nature.
Impact on Santiago de Cuba
In Santiago de Cuba, torrential rainfall They caused serious affectations in various locations. The Camino de Santa Elena, on the cast November 30, and streets 3 and 4 of Trocha, as well as the Cell del Delda del Delda Flores, reported flooded housing and considerable material losses.
Resident testimonies, disseminated in social networks by journalist Cuscó Tarradell describe scenes of anguish with completely flooded houses and the loss of belongings.
The situation was aggravated by the overflow of the Sígua River in the homonymous town, where five people had to be rescued from the facilities of the Baconao Fantasy Park by Red Cross teams and other rescue brigades.
The lack of adequate drainage and the poor state of the sewers are some of the key factors that magnified the damage, a chronic deficiency in the city.
In Guantanamo
In the town of 2 West, between road and Emilio Giro, in Guantanamo, firefighters worked hard to disobstruct sewers and mitigate water overflow in the streets, a work that, according to criticism of the population, should have been carried out in advance.
In yateras, A landslide in the Popular Council La Carolina It caused the fall of trees and road obstruction, further complicating the situation.
The municipality of Imías is in a critical situation after the collapse of the provisional bridge that served as the only land link towards the Popular Council Jesús Lores and several nearby communities, leaving more than 5,000 incommunicado inhabitants.
Will it continue raining?
Although Tropical depression evolves and moves away from Cuban territoryInsmet warns that instability will persist in the eastern region with showers and thunderstorms, especially in mountainous areas.
“For the next few hours this system will remain with similar trajectory by increasing its translation speed, as it continues to win in organization and intensity, becoming during the next 12 to 24 hours into a tropical storm,” he said in Insmet, in his notice number 3 issued at 6 in the morning this Sunday.
The Institute of Meteorology (INSMET) reported that in the last 24 hours accumulated exceeding 100 mm in 14 stations, with peaks of more than 200 mm in four points of Guantanamo.
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