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Colombia - Video of recent destruction conditions in Gramalote, Santander del Norte

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LaMenchos

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Gramalote lives end of the world
Electronic translation of original text http://www.laopinion.com.co/noticias/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=364082&Itemid=91

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Angel Romero Bertel | December 18, 2010
At the hour of departure must take all possible forces for such a heavy burden.

For the first time in its 153 year history, Christmas was no longer in Gramalote a merry carnival to become a painful and heartbreaking human tragedy.

For Saturday was planned a big party in the main square on the occasion of the ninth. But what we saw was really shocking: people sad, scared and afraid collecting everything they could take to leave the town with the uncertainty may not get back anymore.

The manger, the villacincos and Santa Claus figures were replaced by televisions, mattresses, kitchen utensils, cardboard boxes, water bottles, and the most unusual objects that you can take to the shoulder when a journey uncertain and hazardous.

Gramalote yesterday was totally different from a village up on Wednesday.

The fault line on which is seated Gramalote and which have been many stories and legends was probably the origin of a landslide or avalanche from the Cerro de la Cruz, which also prompted a series of strange rumblings in the bowels of land.

On this phenomenon more than 100 houses collapsed and several streets and sidewalks were opened as if it had been an earthquake. Lamp posts were halved and the church also suffered several cracks.
 
Re: Colombia - geologic fault and severe winter rains devastate Gramalote in department, Santander del Norte

Re: Colombia - geologic fault and severe winter rains devastate Gramalote in department, Santander del Norte

2,000 people evacuated from Gramalote for fear of landslide.
http://www.canalrcnmsn.com/?q=node/47099 (Spanish)
 
Re: Colombia - Ground gives in under town's homes, church, school; imminent collapses in Gramalote in department of Santander del Norte

Re: Colombia - Ground gives in under town's homes, church, school; imminent collapses in Gramalote in department of Santander del Norte

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Skyline of Gramalote, Santander del Norte
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Re: Colombia - Ground gives in under town's homes, church, school; imminent collapses in Gramalote in department of Santander del Norte

Re: Colombia - Ground gives in under town's homes, church, school; imminent collapses in Gramalote in department of Santander del Norte

A village swallowed by the earth
On 2010/12/19, in Conflict, by Albeiro Rodas It seems like a movie of Mark Robson (Earthquake, 1974), but at this time I write this post, a Colombian village, Gramalote in North Santander, is being swallowed by the earth. Another chapter of the tragic 2010 winter in Colombia. The minister of interior, Germ?n Vargas Lleras, visited the place of the disaster and sentenced that the town will disappeared in few hours. The 90 percent of its population has been evacuated and rescue teams try to recover official and historical documents from government buildings that were destroyed by the strain natural phenomenon.

http://colombiapassport.com/2010/12/19/a-village-was-swallowed-by-the-earth/
 
Re: Colombia - Ground gives in under town's homes, church, school; imminent collapses in Gramalote in department of Santander del Norte

Re: Colombia - Ground gives in under town's homes, church, school; imminent collapses in Gramalote in department of Santander del Norte

AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The village of Gramalote destined to disappear due to rain

Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - About six thousand people have fled their homes in a village in north-eastern Colombia. The Minister for the Interior said that probably in a few days it ?will not exist anymore?, as the village is in the process of disappearing under a mass of earth and mud. The combination of earthquake and landslide caused by heavy rain since Friday, 17 December, has threatened the village of Gramalote, located about 400 kilometers north-east of Bogota.

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In less than two days more than 400 houses have collapsed and an unknown number have cracks or flaws that render them unusable.
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Gramalote is a town situated on the eastern cordillera of the Andes, in a mountainous area, very rugged and surrounded by mountains that have caused several landslides and devoured almost the whole city. The mayor of the town, Rafael ?ngel Celis, requested air support from authorities to evacuate residents. ?Right now Gramalote looks like a ghost town, empty streets, houses collapsing on their own, land that opens up and soon the city may disappear completely,? said the mayor. (CE) (Agenzia Fides 20/12/2010)


http://www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=28042&lan=eng
 
Re: Colombia - VIDEO of Ground gives in under town's homes, church, school; imminent collapses in Gramalote in department of Santander del Norte

Re: Colombia - VIDEO of Ground gives in under town's homes, church, school; imminent collapses in Gramalote in department of Santander del Norte

Video of the collapse of the town's collapse and the dramatic situation of its people (Spanish)

Residents attempt to rescue what they can and risking lives to save their iconic town's treasures.
 
Re: Colombia - Videos of crumbling town: Gramalote, Santander del Norte

Re: Colombia - Videos of crumbling town: Gramalote, Santander del Norte

Little by little, Gramalote crumbles

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4v6E0ZSrhE&feature=player_embedded

Fault conditions exacerbated by heavy and prolonged rainy season said to have caused disaster

  • Everyone has left the town
  • Access is not possible anymore, not even authorities
  • Displaced families overtaken by sadness linger near the town, observe destruction
  • Evacuations continue
http://www.prensaescrita.com/adiario.php?codigo=AME&pagina=http://www.elespectador.com
 
Re: Colombia - Video of recent destruction conditions in Gramalote, Santander del Norte

Video - Gramalote as ghost town - Two men, one motorcycle and a camera document condition of Gramalote a few days ago.

  • Broken streets
  • cracked walls
  • tilted power lines
  • abandoned homes
  • slow rescue
  • evacuated areas
short dialogue, commentary

  • "has everything been evacuated?"
  • "at mother's house, everything left behind, fridge, everything"
  • "gotta be carefull'
  • "keep cells charged"
  • "we called for help for them earlier"
  • "a ghost town"
  • "only a few little things left"


 
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