The heavy rain recorded this Thursday afternoon caused floods in the main streets and avenues of Santiago, generating a chaos in vehicular traffic and even affecting the elevation of the Monumental Avenuewhere the water reached alarming levels.
To enable the structure, units of the Fire brigade they used suction equipment to accelerate the release of the water, which ran like a river over the pavement.
The rainfall also caused accumulation on roads such as the Salvador Estrella Sadhalá, February 27Antonio Guzmán, Las Carreras, Republic of Argentina, Juan Pablo Duarte, among others.
Drivers reported having remained more than an hour stranded in the middle of the overcrowding.
“We have had about fifty minutes and the traffic is not moving“, the citizen wrote on her social networks. Ana Taveraswho also reported that an ambulance with an emergency could not move forward due to the stagnation.
Wait for him patient status has not worsened due to delay on arrival at health center.
Meanwhile, Katherine Martinez She reported that, while she was detained in the Píky Lora street almost corner of the Republic of Argentina, he observed how the current dragged the trash cans and other objects in their path.
another driver, Paul of Jesusreported that at the entrance to the city on the Duarte Highway The situation worsened by power cut that left the traffic lights outside service.
“The vehicles They all got in at the same time because no one gave way,” he commented.
The rains They also affected other central areas and residential, where flooded streetsleaks in homes and difficulties to circulate.
The authorities They urged the drivers avoid moving through areas prone to floods as long as rainfall persists.
Rains by remnants of Melissa
The Dominican Institute of Meteorology (Indomet) warned this Thursday that unstable weather conditions would continue due to the influence of a trough induced by Hurricane Melissa, despite the fact that it is moving away from the national territory.
Forecast rains in Greater Santo Domingo, rainfall that would be more significant in the afternoon hours towards sectors of Pedernales, Barahona, Independencia, Elías Piña, San Juan, Dajabón, Santiago Rodríguez, Valverde, Montecristi, SantiagoLa Vega, Puerto Plata and nearby provinces.
