Santo Domingo.– He blackout or general blackout registered in the Dominican Republic this Tuesday once again placed Santo Domingo at the center of chaos, adding to the historical episodes that occurred in this same month of November.
Chaos due to rain in previous years
The first of these events occurred on Friday November 4, 2022when a intense downpour It caused havoc in the city, leaving thousands of people affected, historic flooding and extensive material damage, mainly to vehicles.
Starting at 4:00 in the afternoon, an extraordinary downpour fell on Greater Santo Domingo and part of the San Cristóbal province.
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The heavy rains caused massive flooding that paralyzed traffic, with main avenues flooded, hundreds of vehicles trapped and thousands of people forced to return to their homes on foot.
Although the precipitation lost strength after 9:00 p.m., by then the damage was already done: The city had been plunged into one of the most chaotic episodes in recent years.
On November 4, 2022, the vulnerabilities were exposed structural and urban prevention of Greater Santo Domingo: an insufficient drainage system, the occupation of natural channels and the lack of more efficient alert and response mechanisms.
History repeats itself, this time with worse damage
The second episode occurred on Saturday November 18, 2023when another heavy downpour which caused the death of several people and generated million-dollar losses in vehicles and property.
that saturday A tropical disturbance once again tested the country’s vulnerability by causing torrential rains that affected a large part of the national territory and caused severe damage in eleven agricultural provinces, especially in the Southern region, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.
These downpours surpassed in intensity and consequences the rains of the November 4, 2022 that had left serious damage in the capital and other areas of the country.
The most painful impact was the death of about 30 people in different parts of the country according to the final report of the Emergency Operations Center (COE), which indicated that the victims died from drowning, asphyxiation, electrocution or from being crushed by structures that collapsed during the event.
Of the 30 deceased, nine of them lost their lives when a side wall of the overpass on 27 de Febrero and Máximo Gómez avenues collapsed on the vehicles in which they were traveling.
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A new black November
This Tuesday, November 11, 2025, the city of Santo Domingo, where the largest population and public and private transit in the country are concentrated, once again experienced a black November, this time not because of the rains, but because of a general blackout that affected the the San Pedro 1 substationin the province of the same name, of the Dominican Electric Transmission Company (ETED), also impacting a large part of the national territory.
still at 7:30 at nighthe Santo Domingo Metro and Cable Car had not resumed their operations, while the blackout also caused the suspension of the service of the Santiago Cable Carthe second most important city in the country.
Government reaction and consequences
He Dominican governmentthrough the Ministry of Energy and Mines, apologized to the population for what happened and ordered a investigation to determine the real causes of the blackout that disrupted the daily lives of thousands of people.
He also reported that the service had been reestablished in 15 percent of the population.
After the incident, hundreds of passengers were trapped in the Metro and Cable Carwho had to be emergency evacuated by security brigades.
