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In less than 24 hours, the fury of the waves wiped out the Punta Sur restaurant of María Gladys Sánchez, who recounted how her effort to remodel the site after the quarantine collapsed during the blow of Hurricane Eta.
“In January we decided to do a new restructuring, make it beautiful and the pandemic caught us and we could not reopen; We worked to make it beautiful and this happened to us, in hours everything was over “, says the owner.
The effects of the storm on the island of San Andrés have been devastating, to the destruction of more than 40 houses and commercial premises is added the rupture of the outfall pipe, which leads the wastewater 430 meters out to sea. The event has set off alarms among environmental authorities trying to control the leak.
Given the heavy rains that generated flooding in different sectors of the north of the island, the situation led to the declaration of public calamity by the authorities and the management of aid from the Minister of the Interior, Alicia Arango, who arrived on the island today.
“They presented us with an action plan that we want to support from the national government, which mainly refers to roads, housing and achieving with Minambiente the issue of mitigation through natural resources and working on monetary transfers and everything what is the commerce and restaurants sector“Said Arango.
Although the strong waves descended, rain and winds will continue to occur in the next few hours according to the Ideam forecast.
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