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Sunday, February 15, 2015

Temporal: five dead and the Government requested help from the army to help the flooded

9:16 PM



Sierras Chicas, the most affected area. In Córdoba capital, some neighborhoods have no energy and no service flooded streets. Countless evacuated in the province. On Saturday there was another late. Looking at four missing.
Heavy rains over the weekend caused five people dead, four missing and disadvantages in the Sierras Chicas and Punilla, with streams and flooded rivers. Also on Saturday another fatal victim drowned in Cuesta Blanca was recorded.
In Córdoba capital were flooded streets and interruptions in electricity service.
Streams and mountain streams recorded flood in general throughout the mountainous area, in some basins with more than 300 millimeters of rain in the last hours, so there fords, roads and cut routes, informed La Voz Diego Concha, director of provincial Civil Defense.
José Manuel de la Sota sought help from the Army to access the places most affected by the floods. Government House sources confirmed that the governor asked General Jorge Rodriguez support for logistics, mobility and equipment to assist flood victims.
Since the authorities announced that a new and strong flood reached the capital after 19 Sunday because valves San Roque Dam opened wider.
VICTIMS. Six people killed by floods.
CRISIS. "This had never happened in Córdoba"
ON THE NETWORKS. The users told their experience.
GALLERY. The rescue
Some of the most affected, where circulation is complicated or interrupted, are Ascochinga, Jesús María, Celman, Rio Ceballos, Unquillo and Mendiolaza.
From Civil Defense neighbors are advised not to leave their homes unless it is extremely necessary, not circular routes.
In Cabana, three kilometers from Unquillo, increasing the stream a house and a car would be without people aboard was.
The house is split in the middle by the current, but would not be inhabited by its inhabitants. The neighbors are isolated by water.

The stream that has typically have 30 inches deep and 60 inches wide happened to have three meters deep and 30 meters wide.
In addition, flooding in barrio El Perchel of Mendiolaza were recorded, as haveLavoz users in social networks, and was flooded up to Avellaneda Route 60.
At noon is planned to open one of the compensation valves Dam La Quebrada, for the first time in history, to avoid a flood to the large increase in water flow.
Cortes on Route 9
The Highway Patrol stopped traffic on Route 9 North Carlos Paz and Jesus Maria, water on the road, and on Route 9 South from La Carbonada and Toledo to the entrance to Rio Segundo, so traffic is diverted to the Rosario-Córdoba highway.
There was also another cut on Route 9 North and 60 at the height of Totoral, Cordoba Police reported.
In Cordoba city
In the city of Córdoba, meanwhile, is interrupted circulation on the waterfront, on the north and south due to the large amount of water on the road. An estimated 66 millimeters fell in the city.
At five o'clock, and there was 35 inches of water at the height of Avellaneda and 25 inches in Santa Fe, a situation that worsened with the passing of the hours.
"During the morning, there were also some points of the city flooding because 18 millimeters fell in less than an hour," said Hugo Garrido, head of Civil Defense of the Municipality.

una publicación de Susana Revoira Lynch.


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In addition, some streets were flooded from noon on Sunday as Monsignor Pablo Cabrera came to be, where 50 inches of water and Rafael Núñez acumulada-.
The Municipality of Córdoba, through the Directorate of Civil Defence and Urban Emergency, reported that due to existing flooding in the city, mainly in northern and West, citizens are asked not to go public roads unless strictly necessary.
Additionally, we recommend avoiding the downtown area and respect the courts established for the Av. Costanera and not pass through the artery.
Pedestrians are asked to under any circumstances transiting affected areas, and motorists driving on the area Tropezón as major flooding occur.

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