Re: Remnant of Matthew expected to produce torrential rain over Mexico and Central America
Re: Remnant of Matthew expected to produce torrential rain over Mexico and Central America
Spanish to English translation
Matthew rains leave 8 dead in five states
by The Editors
National / General | Monday, September 27, 2010 7:04 hrs.
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Source: THE JOURNEY
At least eight people died and more than 30 are reported missing in Chiapas, Tabasco, Veracruz, Guerrero, Oaxaca and Nuevo Leon by the rains of Tropical Depression Matthew, which is being degraded, but whose remnants still affect the first two entities , to which kept the orange alert for indications of the National System of Civil Protection.
In Chiapas at least one third of the county seat of Yajal?n was no light by falling poles, and inundated by the overflowing of the river Chulho, which demolished three bridges and dragged about 40 vehicles and broke into at least 200 houses and a twenty shops Linda Vista neighborhood, San Mart?n, San Antonio, Bethlehem Airfield, Jonuta, San Miguel and Center.
In the midst of heavy rainfall were found the bodies of Elena Martinez Alvarez and a man washed away and residents of Yajal?n said 30 people missing. In Chilo there are 150 homes flooded and a landslide buried a house hill whose three occupants died.
70 Lacandon families fleeing
In San Cristobal de las Casas overflow of the Yellow River flooded about 350 houses in various colonies and more than 500 people were sheltered in shelters. In Spring, a women's clinic would be opened soon also was invaded by the waters, and in the Montes Azules reserve in the Lacandon jungle some 70 families fled to Plan de Guadalupe surrounding communities.
Military, fire brigade and civil protection in boats helped evacuate the victims, while the currents generated thronged the old tunnel more than three meters in diameter and two miles long draining the county seat, and landslides prevented the movement several roads and isolated to a yet undetermined number of people.
In Ocosingo, the river affected neighborhoods Lady Maya, Buganvilias and November 20. Also suffer damage Tenejapa, Tumbal? and Salto de Agua, and there was additional landslides in various sections of roads and Palenque Pichucalco-shotgun-Rancho Nuevo.
Seven other municipalities in the jungle areas, Treble and Frailesca were affected because of heavy rains that fold since early Sunday, and remained blocked access to San Juan Chamula, Pantelh? and Chenalh?.
In Veracruz Civil Protection authorities said the alert for the next 36 hours and the overflowing of rivers Uxpanapa, San Juan, Tesechoac?n, White and Papaloapan many families did leave about 50 villages in southern municipalities.
In Tlacotalpan, and punished and evicted by previous floods, the river flow Papaloapan invaded the pier. In Tlalixcoyan White River broke a board, covered plantations and did make available the evacuation of seven villages, while in Ignacio de la Llave 3 000 have already been mobilized, and Las Choapas Uxpanapa River began to flood the village 14.
Hundreds of families were affected by the flooding of the Yellow River in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, due to heavy rains during the night of viernesFoto Hugo S?nchez
A farmer from Tezonapa drowned in flood waters from the Tonto River, which incor-nicated 32 communities and 20 Puebla Oaxaca, where the lack of help spread desolation and despair of hundreds of victims.
In Tabasco seven rivers burst their banks in recent hours and Civil Protection authorities kept alert by the storms of Matthew, which the National Water Commission produced accumulations of up to 112 mm.
Reduce Pe?itas sufficiency
Authorities reduced the sufficiency of Penitas dam of 2 000 300 to 2000 cubic meters per second, which is channeled into rivers Carrizal and Samaria, as the Pichucalco overwhelmed in the region of La Sierra, the Grijalva, which runs against Villahermosa, banana and Tacotalpa. Only in the latter exceeded the critical level 2.82 meters, and the Usumacinta one meter in Boca del Cerro.
Many communities in the municipalities of Cunduac?n, Nacajuca, Jonuta, Emiliano Zapata, Tenosique Centla, balanced and centered emergency maintained, but they were inundated by floodwaters of the rivers Carrizal and Samaria and Usumacinta.
In the capital of Oaxaca a landslide of Cerro del Fortin totally blocked the four-lane highway that connects north and east of the city, and with the likelihood of more heavy rains in the coming hours the authorities issued an alert to the regions of the basin Papaloapan, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Coast, Central Valley and Southern Highlands.
Two drowned in Guerrero
In Acapulco, Guerrero, disappeared at sea Cano Cristian Suarez, 30-year-old native of Mexico City, and the municipality of Petatlan, about 20 miles west of Rio Chiquito, appeared in a bower the decomposing body of the minor C?sar Adri?n Mateos Morales.
In Allende, Nuevo Le?n, the bodies of two men who drowned in the stream of the river Mireles, but a third person accompanying them was still missing after the mishap in which his car was swept away.
At night, more than 80 people were evacuated as a preventive measure for Santa Fe housing complexes and Loma Larga, Monterrey Colonia Doctores, by the breaking away of the Cerro de la Loma Larga. The rocks that fell from the hill did not harm people or the building, although it reached some vehicles that were in a parking lot.
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