Different parts of Nicaragua were affected due to the heavy rains that have been reported this week in some departments. In some places they even warned about the fall of hail. The rainfall caused flooding due to overflowing of riverbeds, fallen trees and collapsed houses.
In Managua, the Mayor’s Office reported “affectations in 23 places with 156 houses with flooding, however for the volume of water we did not have major damages,” the secretary general of the Managua Mayor’s Office, Fidel Moreno, told official media. According to the information, the areas hardest hit by the rain were the coastal area of district VI, on the border between Ticuantepe and district V.
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Citizens through social networks reported that the strong winds and combined with the electrical storm caused the fall of trees that left several areas of the capital without electricity, in addition to causing traffic accidents and houses with serious damage to their infrastructure.
The rain on April 25 began at seven at night in Managua. The urbanizations were affected by floods, the inhabitants have complained on social networks about the “poor construction of the residential areas”. Streets were also damaged.
In the department of Estelí, citizens also reported the almost total destruction of some homes, some were left without roofs or walls due to flooding and strong winds that also caused trees to collapse, in addition to hail in that area. from the country.
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The Nicaraguan Institute of Territorial Studies (Ineter) anticipated that “the rainfall expected for this period will be of regular intensity, accompanied by strong winds and we will not be surprised if there is eventually one or another episode of hail fall. Those are features that regularly accompany rainfall during this season.”
According to the institution, the largest amount of rains originated in the West and in areas of the autonomous regions of the North and South Caribbean with rains between 30 to 70 millimeters “this is a fairly representative rain, the rest of the country was more or least between about 10 to 50 millimeters of rain,” he explained.
