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Hurricane Iota caused the death of at least one person and serious damage on the island of Providencia, in the archipelago of San Andrés, according to the authorities’ report after the powerful cyclone that reached category 5, the highest on the scale.
“There is a maximum impact (…), we are talking about a deterioration of about 98% of the island’s infrastructure, “President Iván Duque reported on Twitter. A deceased person remains” to be identified, “he said.
Providencia, where about 6,000 people live, is the most affected Colombian territory by Iota on his way through the Caribbean to Central America. According to authorities, there are difficulties in communicating with the residents.
“We have had very poor communication due to the effects on the telecommunications system,” the president explained.
The island’s hospital lost part of its roof and the archipelago is without electricity serviceAccording to Colonel John Fredy Sepúlveda, police commander of the archipelago that includes several keys and the islands of San Andrés, Santa Catalina and Providencia,
Several travelers are trapped in hotels, he reported.
During the morning of Monday Iota came to be 38 kilometers from Providencia, which remains under alert for the possibility of “hurricane force winds” and a swell with “heights greater than 3-4 meters”, according to the most recent bulletin of the state Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies (IDEAM).
The institute recommended that the island’s inhabitants “take extreme measures” of precaution against the passage of hurricane Iota, which is heading at a speed of 15 kilometers per hour towards Honduras and Nicaragua, areas already devastated by cyclone Eta two weeks ago.
South End sector, Elsy Bar, Tom Hooker and Hoyo Soplador were cut off to the west by a tree fall on the Pepper Hill road, which adds to the interruption of the passage through the Circunvalar at Sound Bay due to the fall of the bench by marine erosion. #Hurricane pic.twitter.com/eFpgBfLtcA
– The Archipielago Press (@thearchipielago) November 16, 2020
This is how the Circunvalar highway was left full of debris that has dragged the strong waves and the hurricane breeze from Iota in San Andrés pic.twitter.com/BgQ94nhqYw
– The Archipielago Press (@thearchipielago) November 17, 2020
In addition to suspending activity on the beaches, official agencies announced the closure of the airport that serves Providencia and a curfew on the neighboring island of San Andrés, the largest in the archipelago, until early Tuesday morning.
Colombia is enduring a heavy rainy season that leaves at least 5 dead, 16 missing and thousands of victims.
Climate change causes an increase in temperature in the surface layers of the oceans, which generates more powerful and water-filled hurricanes and storms that constitute a more dangerous threat to coastal communities, according to studies by the Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Climate Change (IPCC) of the UN.
This is how San Andrés begins to look. Havoc from Hurricane IOTA.
PENDING OF PROVIDENCE; the damage is expected to be greater there.– BOGOTANO. (@RoloAlzate) November 16, 2020
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