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Cleaning operations for houses, roads and water lines continue today in the parishes of Ponta Delegada and Boaventura, the most affected by the storm that hit the north coast of Madeira on Christmas Day.
“As for losses, I calculate between 40 and 50 thousand euros in appliances and furniture, because there is nothing left,” said Simone Teixeira, in front of her parents’ house, in the lower area of Ponta Delgada, with the water still abundant inside. and surroundings.
The house in question was one of the most affected by the floods, and there was also evidence of another, where no one lived, which was completely destroyed.
“The house is completely destroyed inside, there was nothing left. My parents managed to get out in time, because they saw that the flow through the rock was too great,” he explained, also indicating that the family had already warned, at the time of the fateful ’20 de Fevereiro ‘to the authorities for the fact that the stream deviated from the natural course.
Simone Teixeira believes that “responsibilities must be determined.”
For CMTV, the daughter of the neighbors does not hide the revolt because at that time the family denounced the diversion in the stream to the then mayor of São Vicente, Jorge Romeira, to the former president of the Ponta Delgada City Council, João Caldeira. , and the then head of the Regional Government of the entity that supervised the streams, Daniel Figueiroa. “At that moment, they answered my father: ‘Do you know how much it costs to do this job?’ And now I ask: and how much does my father’s life cost?” Said Simone Teixeira, “hurt” and visibly moved. a situation that “could have been avoided”.
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