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Santo Domingo.– The Emergencies Operations Center (COE) issued a red alert for eight provincies: La Altagracia, La Romana, San Pedro de Macorís, El Seibo, Hato Mayor, Monte Plata, Santo Domingo and the National District, while four persons drowned.

The tropical wave, which will bring more heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms today, killed Augusto Alcántara Beltré, 75, Bienvenido Reyes Medina (Biembo), 31, Ámbar Patricio Feliz, 2, and Elías Alfredo Pichardo Hernández, 1 year old. They were from San Juan de la Maguana, Barahona,  Esperanza and Villa Mella, respectively.

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Written by: PuntaCanaMike, 23 Sep 2008 9:07 AM
From: Dominican Republic
My regards to the family and thier losses....but one question...they are from Barahona. There is no alert for that area...they show no recordable amount of precip either. Just curious.

Again, my regards to the family.

Written by: miloskorac This user is banned, 23 Sep 2008 10:54 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo and Punta Cana
From yesterday, first hit (light rain) was in Punta Cana, at the same moment the formation started at Barahona, starting to move fast up to North.
13:45 UTC http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/carb/loop-avn.html
I can still see heavy clouds over Barahona, storm is (present) long from Turks and Caicos to Colombia and wide from barahona to porto rico. Monte Cristi, I would say, less rain, more wind there.

Leonel has to do something with Drainage on the streets and urban setllements. Good monitoring lately is coming from US aircrafts observing storms, so they can be prepared. Why dont we (Gov.) do something, except waiting that people get killed because of the rain??
Written by: dreadlocks, 23 Sep 2008 11:21 AM
From: United States
miloskprac, a little lesson in political strategies and thinking in the DR. street drainage, though necessary, is not glamorous and showy. politicians cannot expect too much political mileage for 'drainage". bridges, highways, parks and fountains, yes..drainage, no.so, streets are built without drainage, and, ten minutes after the showers start, there is flooding everywhere, with the attendant flotillas of debris and garbage. it will never get fixed, because it attracts no attention. money is better spent on the METRO.
Written by: miloskorac This user is banned, 23 Sep 2008 12:36 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo and Punta Cana
I have 8 years living here in Dominican Republic. In the street Núñez de Cáceres there is the same problem, every time that rains, that one part of the street is a lake, what actually produce jobs, I have seen people waiting that cars stops working, so they can push them and gets few pesos.

So there are not drainage, street lights.
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So Pulla, Guachupita, guandule, has to go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWthrT9OsF0
Written by: avocado, 23 Sep 2008 2:08 PM
From: United States, Minneosta
anyone know the latest on the storm in La Romana?
Written by: yumnuk3, 23 Sep 2008 7:55 PM
From: United States, ø„¸¨°º¤ø„¸¸„ø¤º°¨¸„ø¤º°¨
My condolences to all the family members of the victims.
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