NewsWhore
07-05-2011, 03:10 PM
The Emergency Operations Center (COE) has increased the alert level from green to yellow in eight provinces, including the National District, Santo Domingo, San Cristobal, San Pedro de Macoris, Barahona, San Juan de la Maguana, Duarte (especially the Lower Yuna Basin) and Monte Plata.
Meanwhile, 12 other provinces are under green alert: La Altagracia, El Seibo, Hato Mayor, La Romana, Santiago, La Vega, Samana, Azua, Peravia, Monsignor Nouel, Maria Trinidad Sanchez and Sanchez Ramirez. The alert was based on a forecast by the National Meteorological Office (Onamet), which says that the rains will continue over the national territory for today and tomorrow due to the effect of a low-pressure trough located over Haiti that is drawing abundant humidity into the air mass.
According to the COE report, the rains over the weekend, with thunderstorms and wind gusts, affected some 10 houses, two of them near the community of Los Cacaos in Samana, due to a landslide. In that same province, in the El Valle sector, one house was destroyed and four others were flooded when the San Juan River burst its banks, cutting off the community. Another landslide in Punta Balandra, Samana, affected several houses.
Although the rains have been falling steadily for several days, they have still not affected the storage capacity of the country's main dams, which as of yesterday showed normal levels for the hurricane season, according to Dam Committee spokesman Luis Cuevas. Up until now the only free discharge is coming from Hatillo and Sabaneta. The others have water levels below the level stipulated for this time of the year, so they represent no danger for the population.
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Meanwhile, 12 other provinces are under green alert: La Altagracia, El Seibo, Hato Mayor, La Romana, Santiago, La Vega, Samana, Azua, Peravia, Monsignor Nouel, Maria Trinidad Sanchez and Sanchez Ramirez. The alert was based on a forecast by the National Meteorological Office (Onamet), which says that the rains will continue over the national territory for today and tomorrow due to the effect of a low-pressure trough located over Haiti that is drawing abundant humidity into the air mass.
According to the COE report, the rains over the weekend, with thunderstorms and wind gusts, affected some 10 houses, two of them near the community of Los Cacaos in Samana, due to a landslide. In that same province, in the El Valle sector, one house was destroyed and four others were flooded when the San Juan River burst its banks, cutting off the community. Another landslide in Punta Balandra, Samana, affected several houses.
Although the rains have been falling steadily for several days, they have still not affected the storage capacity of the country's main dams, which as of yesterday showed normal levels for the hurricane season, according to Dam Committee spokesman Luis Cuevas. Up until now the only free discharge is coming from Hatillo and Sabaneta. The others have water levels below the level stipulated for this time of the year, so they represent no danger for the population.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#10)