The metropolitan region of São Paulo still feels the impacts of heavy rain that occurred in the afternoon this Friday (24). According to a registration of the Municipal Emergency Management Center (CGE), five flooding points are impassable in the city. At the worst moment, today, there were 32 active points.
The Capital Traffic Engineering Company (CET) records 510 kilometers (km) of traffic, abnormal volume for the night of São Paulo in January. Pico surpassed the 520 km.
Rail transport is still affected. The lines 1.2 and 3 of the subway only returned to normal at 8:55 pm, the same time CPTM announced normalization of lines 11 and 13. Line 12-Safira continues with interrupted stretch, after a lightning to overthrow the power on the line. According to Civil Defense records 13,190 rays were recorded in the capital area during the storm this afternoon, with 6,292 the number of rays that reached the soil and 6,898 the registered within the clouds.
According to the Civil Defense, the Fire Department recorded 219 occurrences related to floods, four calls for collapse and collapse, 97 calls for tree fall and three calls for falling electrical wiring. The winds reached speeds of 63 km/h, and the accumulated volume of rain reached 124 millimeters.
There were no records of injuries or missing, but a roof of a commercial building in Vila Maria collapsed, reaching vehicles. Part of the roof of the Norte Shopping Center, in Vila Guilherme, also collapsed.
In the municipality of Carapicuíba, in the western part of the metropolitan region, more than 100 homes were flooded. There was a record of a person who was driving a flood with the motorcycle and was dragged by the force of the waters, but so far, there was no triggering of the Fire Department.