Relief authorities carry out rescue work evacuation in sectors of Barahona affected by the floods that have been recorded due to the copious rains due to the incidence this weekend of a tropical wave in combination with a trough.
How did the events occur?
In Cambodia, residents have had to be assisted to leave their homes due to the overflowing of a ravine, sending five families to a school. Meanwhile, others were urged to evict their homes as prevention.
The boardwalk of the city of Barahona was seriously flooded, as well as the market, and the neighborhoods The Beach and Villa Estelaamong others.
“This tropical wave has done what the storm did not do Melissa. She has flooded houses, overflowed rivers, what she usually does; has done harm,” he told Free Diary Jairo Ramos, mayor of the La Ciénega Fire Department, in Barahona. Ramos was busy with a equipment for drain the affected neighborhoods.
Saturated soils
Melissa – which became a powerful hurricane – passed through Barahona as storm at the end of October, leaving saturated soils because of the rains it caused.
Due to a tropical wave in combination with a trough, Barahona is in green alertalong with 13 other provinces.
