The road between southern San Cristóbal provinces and its municipalities of Los Cacaos and Cambita Garabito has collapsed due to the floods, leaving more than 80,000 people stranded. By noon yesterday, Tuesday 25 April 2017, there were lines of dozens of vehicles stopped on both sides of the road in the hope that the road would be repaired and cleared for traffic to begin again.
Businesses have basically stopped working in the two municipalities and students and workers who needed to get to San Cristóbal and Santo Domingo were unable to cross bridges. Some individuals crossed the waterways on foot and then took motorcycle taxis on the other side.
The problem was that Barrio Nuevo in Cambita has practically been buried by mud as the Yubazo River flooded covering the homes in tons of debris, and people are trying to clean their homes but have no clean water with which to do so. Many were unable to cook as their stoves and cooking utensils had been washed away by the river.
In Los Molinas in San Cristóbal, there are dozens of families with homes that are full of mud and have been without electricity since last Friday, 21 April, when a transformer exploded.
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Listin Diario
26 April 2017
