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Tropical Depression ETA advances towards Cuba after leaving at least a hundred dead and thousands displaced in Central America, while in the largest of the Antilles the authorities have reported that the phenomenon could turn into a tropical storm in the next few hours.
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The phenomenon that landed in category 4 on Tuesday in Puerto Cabezas, northern Nicaragua, left Honduras for the Caribbean on Thursday evening.
While the climatic situation is regularized in Central American countries after the passage of the ETA, the destruction left by the hurricane occurs in the rural centers of the region, while thousands of people are waiting for help.
The meteorological phenomenon that has hit Central America since last Tuesday to become a tropical depression has affected crops, telecommunications routes such as highways, bridges and rural roads, as well as power lines, particularly in rural areas.
The rescue forces are just reaching the places most affected by the hurricane, at the same time local agencies are denouncing thousands of rescued people to deal with the emergency.
Panama
In western Panama, the provinces of Chiriquí, Bocas del Toro, Veraguas and the Ngäbe Buglé region were the hardest hit by the heavy rains that fell in the area, causing severe flooding.
The death toll is eight and at least 68 people remain missing, while significant material damage has been reported due to crop losses, landslides, landslides, destroyed roads, among other damage recorded.
Costa Rica
The National Emergency Commission reported that 1,361 people remain in 38 shelters set up in communities on the Pacific coast and that municipal emergency committees have participated in more than 600 reports of floods and 304 landslides or collapses on the roads so far this year. week.
They rescue the bodies of 3 people who died in the collapse in Quejá San Cristóbal, Alta Verapaz.
Josefa Cab, 55 years old
Kevin Gualin Cab from 9 Ay
Danilo Calel Gualin for 2 years
Military personnel continue search and rescue.
Report: 14:30 Hs #DepressionTropicalETA pic.twitter.com/Yv9vHq1sJf
– Santiago button (@SantiagoteleSUR)
November 6, 2020
Authorities reported Thursday the death of a 71-year-old American and his 51-year-old Costa Rican wife who died in a landslide in Concepción de Agua Buena, in Coto Brus, in the south of the country.
The Saviour
El Salvador is on high alert due to the rains generated by Eta, which led the authorities to preventively evacuate 1,193 people, who were in 24 shelters, while the damage recorded on Thursday was, fortunately, minor.
Honduras
Cultivated areas, homes, roads, bridges and other infrastructure were destroyed in this nation that began to suffer the effects of ETA from Nicaragua on Wednesday as a tropical depression, now moving in sustained winds of 45 kilometers per hour.
Rescue forces have reported at least 27 deaths to date, most of them in landslides or swept away by water currents. Until Thursday the dead were 21, but today the death of a family of six people was reported, buried after they sold their home in the village of Cerro Verde in the municipality of Belén Gualcho, to the west.
Nicaragua
Remote indigenous communities like Wawa Bar and Lamlaya were completely devastated, as trees and poles fell in Bilwi, the baseball stadium collapsed and houses and churches were left homeless.
The Nicaraguan government reported that the more than 30,000 people evacuated to the shelters have begun to return to their homes.
A part of the paved road was flooded at Km 512 of the Northern Transversal Strip. At this time, people travel by boat to reach the communities of the municipality of Cobán Alta Verapaz.#DepressionTropicalETA pic.twitter.com/eskiK92YrH
– Santiago button (@SantiagoteleSUR)
November 6, 2020
Guatemala
Authorities estimate that at least 100 people died in an avalanche that buried around 150 homes in the northern village of Quejá, whose remote location, combined with rains and landslides, made it difficult for rescuers to arrive.
In the Central American country, eight dead and 18 missing are confirmed. Thousands of people were isolated this Friday awaiting help in various departments in the north of the country, such as Alta Verapaz, Baja Verapaz and Izabal.
Cuba
In the next 12-24 hours the meteorological phenomenon will continue towards the northeast, increasing its translation speed.
With this route and speed of translation, Saturday evening will approach the seas south of Cuba, with rains that can be strong and intense in most of the archipelago, even in areas far from the center of the island.
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