Floods in Paraguay: the arrival of cold complicates the lives of displaced families – 13/05/2019

The temporary rain who hit Asunción on Friday, Paraguayand the fall of the temperatures have defeated the thousands of families who have lived for several months in wooden crates and sheet metal in the center of the Paraguayan capital because their homes were flooded flooding caused by the flooding of the Paraguay River.

The heavy rains that fell between Friday and Saturday left a dead person and aggravated the extraordinary flood that has been recording the river since April, according to the authorities.

The storm caused a 20-centimeter increase in the level of the river, which reached this Sunday 6.98 meters high, which keeps it above the "critical" level, set at 5.50 meters.

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The most punished cities were Asunción and Pilar, 300 kilometers south of the capital, said Minister of the National Emergency Secretariat, Joaquín Roa.

Pilar was flooded 80% and required a special emergency operation.

A dead person

In Pilar, Ñeenbucú Department, Ñeenbucú Department, near the border with Argentina, a teacher died of a heart attack after falling into a watercourse when he was going to teach.

The damaged families who took refuge in the Plaza de Armas, at the doors of the National Congress, in the capital, faced Friday the storm "It ruined everything". But not only that, on Monday as displaced people worked to repair the damage done to their makeshift boxes, plastic sheets and metal sheets, An unusual cold has appeared in the area.

As reported by the ABC Color newspaper, there are approximately 36,000 families affected. And notice that this week They must support a minimum of 12 degrees in an already vulnerable situation.

Fátima López, who has been living in one of the boxes for two months with her husband and two children, told EFE that this Friday "almost everything stolen" their roof, which forced them to cover the shelter with a tent and wedge it with nails.

"I have two creatures and at any time you can drop everything on us," lamented López, who had to move three times since his home in Barrio Oriental.

The family said they had already spent about 400,000 Guarani, or about $ 62, to buy the plates and struts needed to repair their temporary home.

In addition, Lopez confessed that these past two days, his family suffered "very cold" as a result of a drop in temperature, unusual in the country, and that they do not have many things from their home of origin.

From his home, he could only save his "bed and dresser from his son", while the rest of his belongings were flooded with water and he doubted that he could to get them back.

The National Meteorological Directorate issued a new storm warning on Sunday in the Chaco region, while the Ministry of the Interior He urged the inhabitants of Asunción to stay at home.

Trailed cars and cut routes

Friday, the rivers formed by the storm they dragged dozens of vehicles parked in different parts of the capital and the metropolitan area, but no deaths were recorded.

In several areas of the vast region of central Chaco, 400 km northwest of Asunción, access roads are closed and impbadable and military forces use helicopters to transport supplies to the victims.

Floods caused that in the capital about 11,400,000 families have been relocated to 118 shelters, squares and public parks, according to the latest data proposed by the municipality.

The local government recognizes that the inns have only 31 chemical toilets, which is equivalent to a urinal for 39 people.

Source: agencies