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SANTIAGO. – The downpours of the last 24 hours have drenched several towns of Santiago province, flooding streets schools in the communities Licey and Tamboril, where the Licey river breached its banks.
The floodwaters have damaged houses and businesses, forcing inhabitants from the east part of the province to flee to higher ground. Some blame part of their calamity on a bridge they affirm was incorrectly built at Santiago’s North Bypass avenue.
Residents in the district Las Palomas, Limonal, Monte Adentro and Pontezuela, among others say the rising waters stem from a bridge which they believe acts as a dam.
Despite the downpours, residents took to the streets to protest by torching tires to demand that the authorities solve the problem. The protests snarled traffic on the Duarte highway yesterday afternoon, between Santiago and Licey.
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No Flood Control Planning but we have a METRO!
As if they had gutters to clean!
"One dead, roads and hundreds of houses flooded in PP"
By ANTONIO HEREDIA
“PUERTO PLATA.-Intensive rains registered in the last few hours in cities in the North coast have been flooded approximately one thousand 500 homes in Sosúa and Cabarete, caused road become impassable and resulted in the tragic death of a child of just one year.”
“Official reports indicate that the child, whose identity was not given, was dragged by a stream of water from the front of his house located at Paradise Villa of Maranatha, Sosúa sector, and then fell into a septic hole from where the brigades rescued his body.”
"The downtown streets of the tourist municipality of Sosúa, located in the eastern part of Puerto Plata, were swamped altogether as well as dozens of homes from the Tuesday night until the morning of Wednesday as a result of the overflow of rivers, streams and ravines."
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Like I said FLOOD CONTROL PLANNING ZERO but we have a METRO!
Truth be known, envision the Metro does not exist. Does one really think funding of flood control planning would be on the government agenda ? I think not, this is the Dominican Republic.
The administration of any ruling party, the whole rainbow of them; does not have any inclination to focus on any type environmental planning, including flood planning. Environmental plans make them responsible to the public and one well knows responsibility is a foreign concept in this country
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What the hell was he doing in front of his house? Where were his parents?
Only an A**Hole would blame Fernandez for what was criminal negligence on the part of the parents