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Santo Domingo.- The Emergency Operations Center (COE) issued flash floods and mudslide warnings for Monseñor Noel, La Vega, Sanchez Ramirez and Santiago provinces and ordered forced evacuations in high risk zones, prior to draining the latter’s Tavera-Bao-Lopez Angostura dams complex in Baitoa, Friday afternoon.

COE director Juan Manuel Méndez said advisories are still in effect for nine other provinces, as flash floods from days of downpours have damaged 414 houses, forcing more than 2,000 people from their homes and into shelters in La Vega, Espaillat and Montecristi provinces.

The official specified that residents in San Cristóbal, Villa Altagracia, Monte Plata, Espaillat, and Duarte provinces, especially the Lower Yuna River Basin, should be alert to COE’s emergency bulletins.

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7 comment(s)
Written by: RobertoJose, 13 Apr 2012 2:44 PM
From: United States, FREEPORT, Long Island.... ((You're blind to the fact that you're blind))
I'll pay to see the type of shelters provide for 2k inhabitants
Written by: josean, 13 Apr 2012 8:39 PM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016




Effective flood management is not the priority; METROS ARE!



Written by: RoyStone, 14 Apr 2012 6:59 AM
From: Australia
It is a pity this huge volume of stored water is just being discarded and not used to generate much-needed gigawatt hours or electricity or to replenish other dams that are dangerously under-capacity. I understand there has been exceptional rainfall, however is this not a characteristic of the climate of the region, and that the flooding and landslides are are a consequence of inappropriate land use?
Written by: RoyStone, 14 Apr 2012 7:01 AM
From: Australia
ateo2010,
Attack what Josean says by all means, but I find "dumb retarded haitian" offensive and I am not Josean, or Haitian.
Written by: BASTA, 14 Apr 2012 8:05 AM
From: Dominican Republic, =Ghetto/Legalize Drugs/Free abortions for all
dumb retarded haitian.... = Clever! look into your mothers past and of course your Grannies.
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