Serious Rainy Season Alerts
I saw this story in La Prensa and made a quick translation.
-Joel
Another Mudslide Hits Sololá
Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán, Sololá. -- One little girl died, her two sisters and mother were wounded in a mudslide the day before yesterday in the village of Paculam II. All afternoon Tuesday it rained hard, and at four pm the mud came down Cerro Siete Picos.
Catarina Sac Ambrosio, age seven; her sisters Manuela, age eight, and María, age two; along with Lucía Ambrosio Sipan, 24, were left trapped in the mud until help arrived. The body of Catarina was found eight hours later.
11 Villages in San Marcos and Nuevo Progresso Isolated by Landslides
More than 50 landslides and one mudslide destroyed many parts of the roads that connect these villages to their municipal heads. Villagers have begun the difficult process of clearing and repairing the roads.
Red Alert in Nueva Concepción After Severe Flooding
18 rural communities in Nueva Concepción are under red alert for flooding on rivers Coyolate, Mascalate and Pantaleón. The communities worst affected are Santa Ana Mixtán, El Mango, Santa Odilia y Santo Domingo Los Cocos, where more than 169 families have been evacuated to shelters.
For more information see http://www.prensalibre.com/pl/2006/septiembre/14/151582.html
and also
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/HMYT-6TLPNC?OpenDocument
-Joel
Another Mudslide Hits Sololá
Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán, Sololá. -- One little girl died, her two sisters and mother were wounded in a mudslide the day before yesterday in the village of Paculam II. All afternoon Tuesday it rained hard, and at four pm the mud came down Cerro Siete Picos.
Catarina Sac Ambrosio, age seven; her sisters Manuela, age eight, and María, age two; along with Lucía Ambrosio Sipan, 24, were left trapped in the mud until help arrived. The body of Catarina was found eight hours later.
11 Villages in San Marcos and Nuevo Progresso Isolated by Landslides
More than 50 landslides and one mudslide destroyed many parts of the roads that connect these villages to their municipal heads. Villagers have begun the difficult process of clearing and repairing the roads.
Red Alert in Nueva Concepción After Severe Flooding
18 rural communities in Nueva Concepción are under red alert for flooding on rivers Coyolate, Mascalate and Pantaleón. The communities worst affected are Santa Ana Mixtán, El Mango, Santa Odilia y Santo Domingo Los Cocos, where more than 169 families have been evacuated to shelters.
For more information see http://www.prensalibre.com/pl/2006/septiembre/14/151582.html
and also
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/HMYT-6TLPNC?OpenDocument
