A strong storm hit Bahía Blanca

A strong storm of rain and wind caused today about 100 families evacuated, more than 400 fallen trees, flooding of streets and cuts in the electricity supply, in the Buenos Aires city of Bahía Blanca, without any injuries being registered while it was decided to suspend classes throughout the district, Civil Defense and police sources reported today. The commune of southern Buenos Aires reported that more than two thousand emergency alert calls were received, and 400 trees are estimated to be damaged by total or partial falls while about 100 families were evacuated. The evacuees are housed in dependencies of the Army and the Armada.La Directorate of Civil Defense, said that it is “a climatic situation without antecedents”, so he recommended “not to circulate in what remains of this day and tomorrow due to the danger of falling cables, posters, trees or poles”. Classes for tomorrow were also suspended and “gastronomic and all recreational and sports entities were asked to suspend activities.” While large sectors of the party had no light tonight, said Edes the electricity distribution company that supplies and markets in the south of the province of Buenos Aires.La company highlighted in a statement has normalized the service in the neighborhoods General D. Cerri, Aldea Romana, Los Chañares, Independencia, Palihue, La Falda, and macro and micro center. Meanwhile, “work continues to restore the medium voltage supply that affects the neighborhoods Of Floresta, Villa del Parque, Villa Serra, Saladero, and Ingeniero White sector.” In the latter city, more than 40 people were recorded blowing up roofs and fallen trees. The evacuees had to leave their homes due to the flooding of streets, while dozens of roofs, posters, light desserts and branches of large trees were recorded.

️ ️THE STORM IN #BahiaBlancaAlgunas of the images we recorded and sent us by the #apepe community. This is how Rivadavia Square was, the tide rises strongly in the Port of Ingeniero White and one of the many trees that fell from the root and broke cars and roofs of houses pic.twitter.com/BjmZR2MD16 — apepe (@apepe_bahia)
March 24, 2022

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