Winter continues to rage Medellin. Although the city is partying for the start of the Flower Fair, Several sectors of the city woke up with emergencies after the rains of the last few hours.
According to the Dagrd, on the night of August 5 and the early hours of Saturday August 6, 17 emergencies in the city being the areas of the central west and south of the city the most affected.
the neighborhoods Manrique, El Socorro and Santa Cruz They woke up under water after flooding due to sudden rises in streams that pass through these sectors.
Likewise, in the neighborhoods The Heart, The Salado, Juan XXIII and Eduardo Santos relief agencies attended mass movements that frightened the inhabitants against possible landslides. In the Eduardo Santos neighborhood two people were injured and were transferred to a health center for evaluation.
The Dagrd also treated six cases of collapse of trees In the neighborhoods of Cristo Rey, Trinidad, Cataluña, Bomboná, Santa Fe and El Pesebre, there were no injuries in any of these incidents.
Olaya Herrera Airports woke up closed
Airplan, operator of the Antioquia airports reported that the Olaya Herrera airport, which serves Medellin, remains closed due to adverse weather conditions for its operations.
So far there have been delays in four flights that were going to land at the air terminal and another four were diverted to the José María Córdova from Rionegro.
Similarly, they present delays in 11 flights departing From the airport.
Total closure on the road to Santa Elena
The road that leads to the village of Santa Elena, the epicenter of several events of the Fair, woke up with total closure after a mass movement that also affected several homes. “In the event it was reported power pole down therefore, it was reported to EPM and the attention of the Medellín Fire Department and the secretariats of Physical Infrastructure of the Mayor’s Office and the Governor’s Office were activated, ”said the Dagrd.
The local Administration indicated that it activated social teams that will reach all sectors to care for affected families and conduct censuses. In addition, technical commissions will continue with inspections in different parts of the city.
According to the Ideam, the rains will continue in Medellín and Antioquia in the coming days, for which the Dagrd recommends that the communities be attentive to the tributaries near the houses, clean roof channels, ditches, hydraulic drains of the roads and report sudden floods or behaviors of the ravines and the slopes of the mountains to 123.
The Early Warning System of the Aburrá Valley, Siata, reported this Saturday morning that, during the rains on Friday, 77 electrical discharges were recorded over the Aburrá Valley. The largest number occurred in Medellin with 48 downloads, followed by Envigado and Itagüí, where 10 were registered in each one.
The entity also reported increases in the risk level to red in tributaries of the metropolitan area such as the Santa Elena stream, on the Retail Plaza; the La Cantera creek in the Caribbean –the one that caused the last undermining in the subway railway–; and the Medellín River at the height of the Fundadores bridge, 33 and Santa Marta.