Due to the rains associated with the remnants of Isaac, some 228 homes have been affected and six have been destroyed. Some 216 people have had to leave their homes, two communities have been cut off and nine aqueducts have been affected.
According to the Center for Emergency Operations, the flooding affected Greater Santo Domingo and in the Puerta Linda de Sabana Perdida sector, Santo Domingo North, two houses were affected and there was a landslide in the 10 tareas of the Guaricamos sector that caused a wall to collapse, affected five homes, two dwellings were destroyed and 19 people were evacuated.
In the same area, 33 homes were flooded due to lack of drainage causing 164 people had to be evactuated,
In the Los Platanitos sector, five homes were flooded and 21 people evacuated.
La Victoria community is cut off by the rising rivers Tosa and Cabon and La Blanca due to the rising of the Ozama river.
In San Pedro de Macorís around 40 homes were flooded in the sector El Callejón de Ortiz and in the Los Crocodrilos sector 10 homes were flooded and 25 in the Silencio neighborhood.
In Sánchez Ramírez province, due to the increase in the Cevico River the communities of Palmar del Rio, Sabana del Rio, Sonador, Cevico were cut off but later returned to normal.
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Listin Diario
18 September 2018
