First it was the wind, which began to wreak havoc, a prelude to the strong storm that hit the province on Monday afternoon and night. The thunder and lightning in the area of Cerro San Javier heralded difficult hours, which were confirmed as the rain occupied the Greater San Miguel de Tucumán and inland areas.
What began as a light precipitation became one of the most important of the year. The positive thing was that there were no physical injuries to regret and that, in the perspective of inclement weather, the material damages were not of magnitude.
CHOKE THE REMAINS. A Yerba Buena operator works on a log.
The deluge started around 7:30 p.m. and did not subside until the early hours of the morning. “Luckily we didn’t have big problems. The most significant thing was the fall of the type of Aconquija and Los Pinos avenues, which caused the electricity cut in the west area ”, he detailed yesterday Dino Alfieri, Secretary of Planning and Management of Yerba Buena.
TRANSIT DIFFICULT. The logs that fell blocked streets and avenues in the Garden City.
“We had an atypical wind from the west sector, which could explain this phenomenon unlike other times that I had to see in the municipality. But there was no considerable damage as well as no floods, “he added. One of the fallen trees crushed the truck of the radical ex-legislator Ruben Chebaia, while the gusts lifted some roofing sheets. In the Garden City, no family had to be evacuated despite 44 millimeters of rain and the flow of the Río Muerto increased.
GROWS THAT EAT ROUTES. In La Cocha, uncontrolled water collapsed part of the secondary roads. photo municipality of Yerba Buena.
Tafí Viejo also lamented the fall of trees and branches in different places where they dragged cables of different services (not electricity), as a municipal operator of Green Spaces testified, but without major consequences. In the capital yesterday, the tasks of cleaning grids and scuppers in different parts of the city multiplied due to the amount of waste that was dragged by the waters. For this reason, and in view of the fear of new rainfall, the Municipality urged residents not to throw garbage or take it out of their houses on stormy days, as they cause flooding.
In the south
More complex is the panorama in the commune of El Sacrificio (La Cocha). Around a hundred families from the places of La Zootecnia, Alto El Puesto and Domingo Millán remain isolated since Monday night due to the destruction suffered by the roads that lead to those places during the storm that hit the south of Tucumán.
According to a pluviometric record of the area, in less than an hour 90 mm of water fell. Other towns in the Río Chico, Chicligasta and Gastona departments also reported damage to local roads and highways, but residents are turning to other roads.
The storm broke out after an exhausting day. Despite the virulence of the meteor, there were no evacuations. “The most critical situation is in Alto El Puesto. There are about 50 families who are unable to leave because the torrents reopened the sinkholes from previous flooding. In that place and in La Zootecnia, where there are also other isolated people, highway personnel from the Province and also from this commune, they work to re-establish communication by land, ”he told LA GACETA Carlos Castro, communal commissioner of the place. In Domingo Millán the damages were minor and the incommunicado are the members of three families.
In Alto El Puesto there is a concern about a huge sinkhole opened by floodwaters more than two years ago and that collapsed the town’s school building. Now he threatens to do the same with the establishment that was built 300 meters from the well, replacing the destroyed one. “The crater was being closed in November, when a tremendous storm reopened it and destroyed everything that had been done,” said the neighbor. Juan Pereyra-. Here one lives cornered by the waters and this huge well that can swallow us on any day ”.
The flooding of the Lules River, meanwhile, undermined one of the pillars of the bridge over Route 321, which connects García Fernández with Los Bulacio, rendering it useless. The repair work will begin in the dry season.
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