Due to the rains caused by the Hurricane John overflowed San Agustín canal causing inhabitants of the San Agustín, Casas Palenque and Los Órganos colonies to lose their homes in Acapulco, Guerrero.
Due to the rains caused by Hurricane John, the San Agustín canal overflowed, causing residents of the San Agustín, Casas Palenque and Los Órganos neighborhoods to lose their homes in Acapulco, Guerrero. Photo: Valente Rosas/EL UNIVERSAL
Three tributaries flow into that area of the port of Acapulco and connect with the La Sábana River, which washed away more than 10 houses of material. Photo: Valente Rosas/EL UNIVERSAL
A merchant by trade, Rosa Brenda Carmona Herrera, wife of Luis Enrique García Hernández, narrates that during John’s passage she saw that the canal that passed next to what was her house was growing rapidly due to the intense rain. Photo: Valente Rosas/EL UNIVERSAL
Rosa Brenda remembers that when she left her house for the last time, in the middle of the rain, she closed the door and said goodbye to her: “Because of the rains, I had nothing left, but I got my children back, it was the main thing, because the rest recovers. Photo: Valente Rosas/EL UNIVERSAL
Gloria Hernández Gatica is about to lose her apartment in the Casas Palenque subdivision. When the canal overflowed, the water washed away the foundations of his home, that of his brother and that of a neighbor, all on Salmón Street. Photo: Valente Rosas/EL UNIVERSAL
“All this is about to collapse and our fear is that the other cyclone is coming and I think everything is going to end up falling. The main thing here, what we need most right now, is that they pay attention to us to see if a retaining wall can be built to stop the flow of water, in case it overflows again,” he explains. Photo: Valente Rosas/EL UNIVERSAL
“It caught us unexpectedly because they said that [el huracán John] “He was going to go to Oaxaca, when suddenly it started to rain harder and the first house it took away was my neighbor’s, and when the water took that one away, ours couldn’t hold it,” said Mrs. Verónica López. Photo: Valente Rosas/EL UNIVERSAL
They feel forgotten by the government and believe that it is because looting occurred in their colonies, located along the Mexico-Acapulco federal highway, a week ago. Photo: Valente Rosas/EL UNIVERSAL
