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This Thursday, November 19, the relief forces have attended to floods, falling poles and trees, short circuits, as well as the overflow of residual areas. The storms have generated complications in mobility and dispersed the national strike marches.
Heavy rains have wreaked havoc this Thursday in Bogotá: a pole fell on a taxi on Avenida Circunvalar; Trees have fallen on public roads, as well as in the National Park; Several vehicles have been trapped in the middle of flooded roads (such as Carrera 30) and basements and residential parking lots are flooded.
The general consolidation of the day’s work indicates that the Bogotá Fire Department, in coordination with the Idiger, has attended 33 incidents in different parts of the city. The most critical areas for flooding are the towns of Barrios Unidos, Chapinero, the Autopista Sur, Norte, the NQS and Avenida Caracas.
In these cases, the Aqueduct company took care of emergencies and requested humanitarian assistance.
On the other hand, there were two landslides in Ciudad Bolívar, one in San Cristóbal, in Usme, Usaquén and another in Santa Fe, while 14 trees fell in different areas of the city.
Due to the heavy rains we have flooding in Chapinero, Barrios Unidos and in trunk roads
📍Caracas
📍NQS
📍 North Highway
📍South HighwayWe ask citizens to avoid their mobilization at this time while @FirefightersBogota @AqueductBogota attend and resume mobility.
– Claudia López 👍 (@ClaudiaLopez) November 19, 2020
In fact, not even the day of marches in the framework of the national strike caused as many delays in mobility as the storms, which also dispersed the protesters who were concentrated in the Plaza de Bolívar since this morning. At this time all Transmilenio stations are in operation.
The director of Ideam, Yolanda González, reported that in Bogotá heavy rainfall accompanied by electrical storms will continue. Likewise, the entity predicted that for the remainder of November the rainy weather will continue in the capital.
For its part, the Idiger’s technical team is monitoring the points where reports have been filed through line 123, and invited citizens to use this channel in case of any eventuality to activate the city’s emergency system.
To closely follow the behavior of the rains, citizens can visit the website https://www.sire.gov.co/web/sab where in real time you can check the state of the weather in the capital.
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