Guerrilla in Pinar del Río keeps you updated on the incidence of Hurricane Idalia now in category 1 that maintains a northerly course with a speed of 22 km/hour and maximum sustained winds of 120 km/hour
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The highest authorities of the province visit the Isabel Rubio municipality as the flood increases.
The Cuyaguateje river has continued to grow, the population of this community in Isabel Rubio, despite the constant calls for alerts from the competent authorities, have not complied with all the guidelines.
Hence, it is necessary at this time, to achieve the warning by applying contraventions to the offenders of the measures directed by the civil defense.
here as announced Francisco Diaz Roque president of the zone defense council, 700 people of the most of 1000 that remained in low places, were rescued from these sites.
The amphibious group of the Revolutionary Armed Forces has had to intervene on two occasions, supported by a boat that is evacuating the inhabitants of the place.
The sheet that monitors the height of the river is at 8.10 m and continues to rise. According to the specialist himself, the highest level reached is 9 m. But it is expected that it will continue achieving more volumes of water, from the runoff processes and the precipitations that are still visible in different places in the municipality.
Consolación del Sur: Preliminary effects left by the Tropical Storm, today Hurricane Idalia
Dams at 55%
Average rainfall of 109 millimeters
More than 300 hectares of crops
37 electrical affectations. The two main circuits are open, the municipality without power.
381 protected people remain in family homes.
Municipal Defense Council evaluates the damage and measures to minimize the affectations.
4 brigades are carrying out the celage of the electrical lines.
Today brigades of linemen from other provinces must enter the province.
Organize the distribution of fluid milk for the commercial units.
Tomorrow the distribution of the basic basket is completed and the units must work with extended hours.
Organize the transfer of water with pipes.
So far the start of the school year is maintained on September 4.
Prioritize attention to families and people in vulnerable conditions from the working groups created by the Municipal Defense Council
Pedro Lazaro Rodriguez Gil / Tele Pinar
The main authorities of the Party and the Government in Pinar del Río reached the municipality of Mantua. Some 180 evacuees remain here in the homes of friends and relatives and 13 are protected in the Ormany Arenado special school.
Preliminarily there are 10 broken electric poles and the damage to the house is minimal. The schools are not affected.
Shot, in San Luis, Pinar del Río. Máximo Lugo Credit and Services Cooperative. Banana areas of producer Armando Rodríguez Cabrera.
Tropical Storm Idalia, now a Hurricane, affects crops.
Reports by Alina López Ochoa /Tele Pinar
Boca de Galafre Beach, there are no reports of major damage to summer homes. Reports Rosalía Suárez Said / Tele Pinar
Linemen from the UEB Pinar del Río ready to leave for the town of La Coloma, to repair the damage to the electrical service caused by Idalia.
Efficiency, speed and a sense of belonging characterize electrical workers from Pinar del Río.
Information of the Pinar del Río Electric Company
In the Guane 1 Popular Council, specifically in the El Catalán neighborhood, the residents report that this has been one of the largest floods experienced here. Does More than 20 years something similar did not happen, only compared to the arrival of Isidore and Lili.
“Here everything was very fast, and we are watching closely in case the floods continue,” said Ana Mojena Ramos, a neighbor of the place.
Here in Guane the most difficult situation is today with the supply of water. Today most of the places are being reached with pipes, there are several sources of supply with engine problems, said the delegate of this constituency.
Taken from the Radio Guama profile on Facebook
The Idalia power bands have continued to affect the provinces from Pinar del Río to Mayabeque, including the Isla de la Juventud Special Municipality, with showers, rains and electrical storms, which have been strong and intense in some locations.
The most significant precipitations reported by the meteorological stations occurred in: Isabel Rubio in Pinar del Río with 214.4 millimeters, Nueva Gerona, Isla de la Juventud with 164.6 millimeters and 157.8 millimeters in Güira de Melena, Artemisa. The cumulatives reported by the INRH rain gauges exceed 100 millimeters in 24 hours in 46 locations, six of which exceed 200 millimeters, highlighting El Colony with 227.6 millimeters on the Isle of Youth and 223.0 millimeters on the Mantua Aqueduct , Pinewood of the river.
The winds have reached gusts of up to 133 kilometers per hour at the Casablanca weather station, Havana, 108 kilometers per hour at Isabel Rubio and 106 kilometers per hour at Santa Lucía, both in Pinar del Río.
Taken from Cubadebate
The Cangre River, a tributary of the Guamá River out of its channel, interrupting the flow to the Guamá dam, due to the rains caused by Hurricane Idalia as it passed through Pinar del Río.
Reporting: Rafael Fernandez
