Santo Domingo.- Hurricane Sandy’s downpours forced the people, according to the Emergency Operations Center’s (COE), latest figures, with 104 towns cut off and one person dead an another missing.
Numerous rivers and streams overflowed their banks and damaged 1,149 houses, with several bridges collapsed.
The Public Works Ministry said only heavy vehicles can cross the section of road next to the southern municipality of Azua, from the landslides and flooding.
In Barahona province, which has the most rainfall at around 278 mm, 200 houses were damaged, and 42 in the towns Jaquimeyes and Bombita.
Towns are also cut off near eastern Bayaguana and Monte Plata.
The COE director Juan Manuel Mendez said alerts were heightened in most parts of the country, as rivers crest.
The downpours from Sandy, which remains a category 2 hurricane, will continue until at least noon Saturday, according to the National Meteorological Office (Onamet).
One dead, one missing
Also reported was the death of a young man and the disappearance of another, after he was swept away by a rising stream in San Pedro (east).
Written by: josean, 26 Oct 2012 8:33 AM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
Ask these folks if the USELESS METRO was a National Priority!
Written by: RoyStone, 26 Oct 2012 8:41 AM
From: Australia
Josean,
So the 8,000 Dominicans who died in Hurricane San Zenon was caused by the Metro?
Sub-standard building in unsuitable places, and over-clearing of land (both by feral peasant squatters) is the real cause - heavy rain is normal.
From: Dominican Republic, calle A.Portes
Yes RoyStone ..I see the same problem in the same residential areas everyyear ,,because the drains are clogged up or simply are not big enough ...The best exmamples that I personally know of are the main aterial road in la Romana ..more than 8 feet deep often and nothing done toput in a new drain to take all the water away that sweeps down from higher streets and then in San Pedro ..it is again the main street and near the stadium ..every year and nothing is done about it ,,,they simply sweep the garbage into the drain holes to make it worse../ As you point out the storm yesterday was nothing abnormal for many countries and there was little wind ..other places cope very easily ...has nothing to do with the METRO .
Written by: Atabey, 26 Oct 2012 9:39 AM
From: United States, NYC
Poor, dilapidated infrastructure has been par for the course in much of the Caribbean region. In Cuba, many people were killed during this current storm because of the dilapidated conditions in many housing units. As Ricardolito states, drainage systems are inadequate or non-existent throughout much of the nation-DR. And I might add, in many other Caribbean nations.
It will take many more decades of serious--billions of dollars- infrastructural modernization upgrades to better prepare the region for these natural disasters.
"On Thursday, Sandy caused a storm surge leading to severe flooding along Cuba's south-eastern coastline.
Civil emergency authorities said 11 people had died as the storm lashed the island - nine of those in Santiago province and two in Guantanamo province. Most victims were killed by falling trees or collapsing buildings."--BBC NEWS
Written by: josean, 26 Oct 2012 10:06 AM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
"I see the same problem in the same residential areas everyyear ,,because the drains are clogged up or simply are not big enough "
"has nothing to do with the METRO"
How do you spell contradiction?
Litlle Rickey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From: United States
LOL.. Now Josean wants to blame the metro and Leonel for the storm?
Maybe the Metro has a lot to do with katrina as well.. Maybe it was a "purple -mafia- narco-metro" secret complot to make Huracan David!
This guy is SOO ridiculous!
Josean is full of Salami!
:)
Written by: JHCL2016, 26 Oct 2012 12:04 PM
From: United States, EN PUNTA CANA: Jose H Con Leonel 2016!
Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Bahamas have no Metro....
Hurricane Sandy 2012: Bahamas Pounded By Strong Storm, 29 Dead In Caribbean
huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/26/hurricane-sandy-2012-baha_n_2022420.html
If it hist Washington DD, Philadelphia, NYC... will have deaths too! And is their Metro/Subway systems useless?
(*;@)
Same one, same result -> ABOLLA'O!!!
From: United States, NJ
Ricardito:
I agree with your statement but then what's the sence of having a "department of public works"
D/P/W ?Doesn't the DR has regional D/P/W,at least one per Province?
What josean is saying is:if money is there for the METRO as " priority" why was minor projects
neglected that could had been handled without the IMF or W/B loans.The answer is; wouldn't
be enogh money to steal from nor none inempt personnel to handle it localy so as to pay out the
Haitians for such simple construction, since the locals don't want to get their hands dirty.
I once posted a coment in reference to having the entire MILITARY forces engaged in emergency
task force when such a disaster happens. I guess they are not trained in such capacity exept to
carry a rifle and kick its citizens in the their asses as sign of superiority.
The reason the drainages gets clogged up has to do with its citizens been so filthy as not to
desposed of garbages in their propper containners
From: United States, NJ
ohhhvictor:
josean is not blaming the METRO for such hurracanes,don't twist his statements to accomodate
yours. All he is saying if you got money for one why not for the other. Or is it in your head that the
only place that counts is the capital and its METRO? Oh ,I forgot the DR can not or would not
tackle more than on project at a time,but could steal from every project in existance regardless
their party affiliation !
From: United States
Thelmo:
He was very straight..
He blame the metro right away! Period.
Like if we wouldnt have a metro , we wouldnt have those storm issues..So , maybe he can blame katrina when the same thing happens there ,where over 1800 people died because of that in 2005...
Right?
Written by: josean, 26 Oct 2012 2:33 PM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
Simple minds arrive at even Simpler Conclusions!
From: United States, NJ
ohhhvictor:
Yes but you are smart enogh to know better and read between the lines and know there is no
correlations between the two, but monetary issue.I don't care for either party in DR so that is why I
don't vote there since no matter who comes up, their idea is to become as rich as they can as
soon as they can in 4 years term. That is why you will not find any road project that will last no
more than 4 years,so the next administration has to pay for patching up the roads again.
Written by: josean, 26 Oct 2012 2:36 PM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
Mr. Rancier,
Unfortunately most of the PURPLE Mindless Clapping Seals at DT have neither your INTELLIGENCE nor WISDOM.
Not that I presume to have any either!
I don’t oppose infrastructure projects just for the sake of opposing them; what I oppose are poorly planned, and poorly financed ones that are not part of a national strategy of strategic infrastructure development based on addressing priorities that gives the most bang for the peso.
However, quite frankly like my Grandfather would say this is like farting at the Moon (triando peitos a la luna mi hijo),........................ if we don’t fix our most pressing infrastructure problem, even more pressing than my passion for EDUCATION, “THE RULE OF LAW”...........EVERYTHING has, is and will be a WASTE OF TIME!
From: United States
=>Thelmo: I really agree with you ....
=>Josean: I also agree with you: Only a VERY VERY VERY simple mind can get a relationship between the metro and the storm.It never cross my mind that if we wouldnt have a Metro, we wouldnt have a storm issue..Period.
You should get a nobel Prize for that finding!
Written by: josean, 26 Oct 2012 2:52 PM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
Like Lie-onel your God you twist, obfuscate and lie but in the end you are only fooling yourself.
Mr.Rrancier is held in much higher esteem than you, as well as his critiques, by EVERYONE here at DT, even including yourself;
"=>Thelmo: I really agree with you ...."
I rest my case!!!!!!!!!!
From: United States
It seams that everything that is bad in DR is EL PLD FOULT JEJEJEJEJEJE QUE JODER EL DE JOSEAN
Written by: josean, 26 Oct 2012 3:09 PM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
And who has been in power for the last 12 out of 16 claiming they were God's Gift to the Dominican People: the Men from Mars?
From: United States, NJ
gentlemen:
You noticed nothing has been mentioned about their useless military forces to come to the resque of those DR in dyar need at this pont ,such as us in the USA and our National Guards.
Do you think things would improve if 98% of the Generals,75% of Lt Col,5 Admirals all got fire at once ?Maybe then the rest will get the message.Just like the 5,000 Air TrafficControllers lost their jobs in the USA under President Raegan,thinking they were indispensable.
Written by: RoyStone, 26 Oct 2012 9:04 PM
From: Australia
Good point, Thelmo
From: Canada
Josey:
I understood the weight and bredth of your biting sarcasm right off the hop. And - for those who didn't comprehend his point - let me just say; he's right.
Written by: josean, 27 Oct 2012 10:40 AM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
Thank you!
Written by: josean, 27 Oct 2012 10:43 AM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
Ms. Vickey it seems this EDITORIAL was tailor-made to SLAP you in Your PURPLE APOLOGIST Face, along with the other PLD Clapping Seals here at DT!
The passing of Hurricane Sandy in the area of the Caribbean has highlighted the precariousness state of the Dominican public works. A steady rain generates an accumulation of water in the main avenues of the capital and vehicles were stranded.
That happened in avenues such as the Sarasota, Ortega y Gasset, Núñez de Cáceres and other main roads of the city. Drainage systems do not work because the government of the National District doesn’t clean them properly.
The same applies to the bridges that are destroyed and the roads that are imparied because they corrode. It happened again onn the path to and from San José de Ocoa. Hills that slide and hampered road travel. The constant rain is responsible for bring to light the bad constructions.
And worse still: rain puts to bare the misery of Dominican society.
continued:
Written by: josean, 27 Oct 2012 10:46 AM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
It is not true that we are a small New York, as promised by a former president. It is not true that flying in helicopter demonstrates that the city of Santo Domingo is not full of poverty and misery.
Sandy‘s rains came of to question the lying discourse of politicians
See the rest of the video editorial at:
El agua que pone en evidencia la miseria en RD
No es cierto que sobrevolar en helicóptero demuestre que la ciudad de Santo Domingo no está llena de pobres y de miseria.
acento.com.do/index.php/news/23001/56/El-agua-que-pone-en-evidencia-la-miseria-en-RD.html
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Ask these folks if the USELESS METRO was a National Priority!
So the 8,000 Dominicans who died in Hurricane San Zenon was caused by the Metro?
Sub-standard building in unsuitable places, and over-clearing of land (both by feral peasant squatters) is the real cause - heavy rain is normal.
It will take many more decades of serious--billions of dollars- infrastructural modernization upgrades to better prepare the region for these natural disasters.
"On Thursday, Sandy caused a storm surge leading to severe flooding along Cuba's south-eastern coastline.
Civil emergency authorities said 11 people had died as the storm lashed the island - nine of those in Santiago province and two in Guantanamo province. Most victims were killed by falling trees or collapsing buildings."--BBC NEWS
"I see the same problem in the same residential areas everyyear ,,because the drains are clogged up or simply are not big enough "
"has nothing to do with the METRO"
How do you spell contradiction?
Litlle Rickey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe the Metro has a lot to do with katrina as well.. Maybe it was a "purple -mafia- narco-metro" secret complot to make Huracan David!
This guy is SOO ridiculous!
Josean is full of Salami!
:)
Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Bahamas have no Metro....
Hurricane Sandy 2012: Bahamas Pounded By Strong Storm, 29 Dead In Caribbean
huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/26/hurricane-sandy-2012-baha_n_2022420.html
If it hist Washington DD, Philadelphia, NYC... will have deaths too! And is their Metro/Subway systems useless?
(*;@)
Same one, same result -> ABOLLA'O!!!
I agree with your statement but then what's the sence of having a "department of public works"
D/P/W ?Doesn't the DR has regional D/P/W,at least one per Province?
What josean is saying is:if money is there for the METRO as " priority" why was minor projects
neglected that could had been handled without the IMF or W/B loans.The answer is; wouldn't
be enogh money to steal from nor none inempt personnel to handle it localy so as to pay out the
Haitians for such simple construction, since the locals don't want to get their hands dirty.
I once posted a coment in reference to having the entire MILITARY forces engaged in emergency
task force when such a disaster happens. I guess they are not trained in such capacity exept to
carry a rifle and kick its citizens in the their asses as sign of superiority.
The reason the drainages gets clogged up has to do with its citizens been so filthy as not to
desposed of garbages in their propper containners
josean is not blaming the METRO for such hurracanes,don't twist his statements to accomodate
yours. All he is saying if you got money for one why not for the other. Or is it in your head that the
only place that counts is the capital and its METRO? Oh ,I forgot the DR can not or would not
tackle more than on project at a time,but could steal from every project in existance regardless
their party affiliation !
He was very straight..
He blame the metro right away! Period.
Like if we wouldnt have a metro , we wouldnt have those storm issues..So , maybe he can blame katrina when the same thing happens there ,where over 1800 people died because of that in 2005...
Right?
Simple minds arrive at even Simpler Conclusions!
Yes but you are smart enogh to know better and read between the lines and know there is no
correlations between the two, but monetary issue.I don't care for either party in DR so that is why I
don't vote there since no matter who comes up, their idea is to become as rich as they can as
soon as they can in 4 years term. That is why you will not find any road project that will last no
more than 4 years,so the next administration has to pay for patching up the roads again.
Mr. Rancier,
Unfortunately most of the PURPLE Mindless Clapping Seals at DT have neither your INTELLIGENCE nor WISDOM.
Not that I presume to have any either!
I don’t oppose infrastructure projects just for the sake of opposing them; what I oppose are poorly planned, and poorly financed ones that are not part of a national strategy of strategic infrastructure development based on addressing priorities that gives the most bang for the peso.
However, quite frankly like my Grandfather would say this is like farting at the Moon (triando peitos a la luna mi hijo),........................ if we don’t fix our most pressing infrastructure problem, even more pressing than my passion for EDUCATION, “THE RULE OF LAW”...........EVERYTHING has, is and will be a WASTE OF TIME!
=>Thelmo: I really agree with you ....
=>Josean: I also agree with you: Only a VERY VERY VERY simple mind can get a relationship between the metro and the storm.It never cross my mind that if we wouldnt have a Metro, we wouldnt have a storm issue..Period.
You should get a nobel Prize for that finding!
Like Lie-onel your God you twist, obfuscate and lie but in the end you are only fooling yourself.
Mr.Rrancier is held in much higher esteem than you, as well as his critiques, by EVERYONE here at DT, even including yourself;
"=>Thelmo: I really agree with you ...."
I rest my case!!!!!!!!!!
And who has been in power for the last 12 out of 16 claiming they were God's Gift to the Dominican People: the Men from Mars?
You noticed nothing has been mentioned about their useless military forces to come to the resque of those DR in dyar need at this pont ,such as us in the USA and our National Guards.
Do you think things would improve if 98% of the Generals,75% of Lt Col,5 Admirals all got fire at once ?Maybe then the rest will get the message.Just like the 5,000 Air TrafficControllers lost their jobs in the USA under President Raegan,thinking they were indispensable.
Josey:
I understood the weight and bredth of your biting sarcasm right off the hop. And - for those who didn't comprehend his point - let me just say; he's right.
Thank you!
Ms. Vickey it seems this EDITORIAL was tailor-made to SLAP you in Your PURPLE APOLOGIST Face, along with the other PLD Clapping Seals here at DT!
The passing of Hurricane Sandy in the area of the Caribbean has highlighted the precariousness state of the Dominican public works. A steady rain generates an accumulation of water in the main avenues of the capital and vehicles were stranded.
That happened in avenues such as the Sarasota, Ortega y Gasset, Núñez de Cáceres and other main roads of the city. Drainage systems do not work because the government of the National District doesn’t clean them properly.
The same applies to the bridges that are destroyed and the roads that are imparied because they corrode. It happened again onn the path to and from San José de Ocoa. Hills that slide and hampered road travel. The constant rain is responsible for bring to light the bad constructions.
And worse still: rain puts to bare the misery of Dominican society.
continued:
It is not true that we are a small New York, as promised by a former president. It is not true that flying in helicopter demonstrates that the city of Santo Domingo is not full of poverty and misery.
Sandy‘s rains came of to question the lying discourse of politicians
See the rest of the video editorial at:
El agua que pone en evidencia la miseria en RD
No es cierto que sobrevolar en helicóptero demuestre que la ciudad de Santo Domingo no está llena de pobres y de miseria.
acento.com.do/index.php/news/23001/56/El-agua-que-pone-en-evidencia-la-miseria-en-RD.html