Hail hit the Guadalajara metropolitan area of Jalisco during the early morning. Already in the morning people found streets of the city covered in colonies as Alamo Oriente, La Capacha and Rancho Blanco full of ice, with blocks reaching up to 1.5 meters in height.
Authorities came to begin lifting the ice, while villagers interviewed by local and national media did the same in their homes, where hail also entered.
Others made the attempt to recover their vehicles, which were also caught in the middle of the ice, surprised and mentioned that they do not remember a hailstorm of this magnitude in the city.
That’s what Lazaro Cardenas’s side looks like. a pte., at the height of Fuelle after the hailsily that fell this morning. #tormentaGDL #granizada pic.twitter.com/2OCtmZuiP4 #Tlaquepaque
— mural.com (@muralcom) June 30, 2019
On his Twitter account, @PCTlaquepaque, the San Pedro Tlaquepaque Municipal Civil Protection Coordination reported that City Council staff he went to the colonies of Alamo Oriente, La Capacha and Rancho Blanco, which were affected by hail accumulation.
It also detailed that they made an assessment and census of the houses that were damaged.
“We worked in a coordinated way with @PCYBOMGDL to the residents of the Rancho Blanco colony, one of the areas affected by the hail that fell this morning,” he wrote.
#AlMomento the ice removal work continues on the streets of the Rancho Blanco colony with the support of heavy machinery from our unit, we removed hail from the streets and then deposited in dump trucks. @GobiernoJalisco pic.twitter.com/su9L2ee4A9
— Civil Protection JAL (@PCJalisco) June 30, 2019
Victor Hugo Roldán, Director General of the State Civil Protection and Firefighters Unit Jalisco (UEPCBJ), commented that no more injured persons had been reported until noon, although they continue to review reports from municipalities.
At various points in the city this happened that I had never seen: a layer of hail tens of centimeters. pic.twitter.com/56ZTfaW2lE
— Enrique Alfaro (@EnriqueAlfaroR) June 30, 2019
Below are some images published by Protección Civil de Jalisco and Protección Civil de Tlaquepaque:
With information from Notimex
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