9-hour storm floods over 1,000 homes in Puerto Vallarta

Torrential rainfall fell successful Puerto Vallarta connected Saturday nighttime and Sunday morning, flooding much than 1,000 homes and claiming the beingness of a antheral whose conveyance was swept into a canal.

Associated with the remnants of Tropical Storm Raymond, the tempest lasted astir 9 hours, according to media reports. The dense rainfall was accompanied by beardown gusts of upwind and lightning.

A fig of canals successful Puerto Vallarta overflowed arsenic a effect of the rain, portion respective main roads were flooded.

Jalisco Governor Pablo Lemus said connected societal media connected Sunday evening that 703 homes, 85 businesses and 2 schools had been flooded.

On Monday morning, Jalisco Civil Protection main Sergio Ramírez López said that 1,260 “affected homes” had been counted successful the Pacific seashore city.

Among the Puerto Vallarta neighborhoods affected by flooding were Ixtapa, Cañadas, Mojoneras, Bobadilla, La Floresta, Portales and Parque Las Palmas, according to the Jalisco State Civil Protection and Firefighters Unit.

It said that h2o levels successful immoderate parts of the Pacific seashore metropolis were “up to 1 meter.”

Ramírez noted that clean-up efforts started connected Sunday, and said that “the deployment of resources for the transportation of humanitarian aid” was imminent. He besides said that 5 donation centers were open. Centers accepting donations of non-perishable foodstuffs, soap, shampoo and babe formula, among different products, person been acceptable up astatine locations including the DIF household services bureau offices and the Presidencia Municipal authorities gathering successful Puerto Vallarta’s downtown.

The Jalisco Civil Protection Unit said Sunday nighttime that its unit had carried retired a scope of “support actions” successful effect to the flooding, including rescuing people, monitoring “vulnerable areas,” cleaning up roads and conducting a preliminary valuation of damage.

Municipal, authorities and national authorities, including the army, contributed to the catastrophe response, which included the usage of boats to rescue stranded residents.

Shelters were acceptable up successful antithetic parts of Puerto Vallarta to supply impermanent accommodation for radical who were forced to permission their homes.

Parts of Puerto Vallarta saw 178.3 mm of rainfall occumulate implicit the weekend. (Conagua)

Mayor Luis Ernesto Munguía said connected societal media that helium and the Puerto Vallarta municipal authorities were saddened to spot that “many families” had mislaid “everything” owed to the flooding.

He said that municipal authorities acted “immediately” to present furniture bases and mattresses truthful that members of affected families could “at slightest slumber peacefully.”

Munguía besides said that municipal authorities delivered “several refrigerators” to families who mislaid theirs owed to flooding.

The tempest successful Puerto Vallarta came aft dense rainfall and flooding successful assorted states past week, including Veracruz, Hidalgo, Puebla and Querétaro, wherever a full of 64 rain-related deaths were confirmed arsenic of Monday morning.

Flooding was besides reported successful assorted parts of Nayarit, including San Blas and Compostela.

In Jalcocotán, a assemblage successful San Blas, dozens of families had to spell to a structure due to the fact that their homes were flooded, the paper Informador reported.

Man recovered dormant successful vehicle 

A antheral died aft his conveyance was swept by floodwaters into a canal. The man’s assemblage was recovered wrong his SUV successful the El Contentillo canal successful the La Floresta neighborhood, according to media reports. The conveyance lone came into wide presumption aft the h2o level successful the canal dropped connected Sunday.

The La Jornada paper reported that “an indeterminate number” of vehicles were swept distant by floodwaters successful Puerto Vallarta during the lengthy tempest connected Saturday nighttime and Sunday morning.

Soldier electrocuted, but reported successful unchangeable condition

Jalisco Civil Protection authorities said that a worker was electrocuted successful an unspecified “incident” portion contributing to the catastrophe alleviation efforts successful flooded areas of Puerto Vallarta.

He was transferred to the infirmary and reported to beryllium successful “stable” condition.

With reports from El Diario NTR, La Jornada, La Verdad Noticias, Informador and Quadratín