Tropical Storm Karen Affecting Venezuela and Trinidad & Tobago
The heavy rains and lightning this Saturday, September 21, in the state of La Guaira affected normal life at various points in that area, as evidenced in a series of videos that came in to the Orinoco Tribune newsroom.
Esto me lo acaban de mandar!!! La guaira, 5 horas de lluvia! Declarada en emergencia! La naturaleza y su fuerza! Nadie es más que ella! pic.twitter.com/vYM7edGWiB
— judnaramo💎 (@moralesjudithik) September 22, 2019
In them you can see how some streets of the region were completely flooded, to the point that it made pedestrian and vehicular crossing difficult.
#21Sep #Urgente
Fuerte lluvia se mantiene en La Guaira (Vargas).
Ya existen reportes de inundaciĂłn de algunas viviendas y desbordamiento de quebradas.
Fotos y vĂdeos RRSS pic.twitter.com/amC6B9Ypm5— Delmiro De Barrio (@DelmiroDeBarrio) September 21, 2019
In 1999, La Guaira State (formerly Vargas State) suffered the worst natural disaster in Venezuelan history, known as “La Tragedia de Vargas” (the Vargas Tragedy) when after four days of torrential rain, parts of the mountains began to collapse, provoking a massive landslide where an estimate of 15,000 – 20,000 Venezuelans died.
Calle los baños la guaira maiquetia pic.twitter.com/0ZRVsiZhbu
— richard rodriguez (@rrgg7) September 21, 2019
According to his Twitter account, the meteorologist Luis Vargas, “the weather station of the Maiquetia airport, recorded the fall of 165 liters of water per square meter, when the monthly average of the station, for the month of September is 54 liters / m², that is, it rained three times as much as normal rainfall for a whole month.”
. Habitantes de LaGuaira, Vargas, denuncian inundaciones, por consecuencia de las torrenciales lluvias pic.twitter.com/ffILVKvPrp
— Venezuelaesnoticia (@Venezuelaesnot1) September 22, 2019
The storm was severe enough to down several trees in the areas of Naiguatá and Catia La Mar.
El Gobernador del estado La Guaira, Jorge GarcĂa Carneiro, informa al pueblo del despliegue que lleva a delante para afrontar los eventuales problemas que genere la tormenta tropical Karen en la entidad. pic.twitter.com/AZqEoI7i6r
— Tania Valentina DĂaz (@taniapsuv) September 22, 2019
The Governor of La Guaira State announced on social media and on local media that the situation was under control besides some areas where mudslides were unusually large, creating problems in the drainage system. No loss of life has been reported. The states Sucre, Delta Amacuro and Nueva Esparta (Margarita Island) are among the most affected by the storm as can be seen in the tweets below as well as the work already initiated for repairs in the affected areas.
#URGENTE #Sucre | coletazos de la tormenta #Karen afectaron la poblaciĂłn de #Manicuare en la #PenĂnsuladeAraya | vĂa @Ysamira fotos: CortesĂa pic.twitter.com/rt9upthgV3
— Cima News Digital (@cimanewsdigital) September 22, 2019
#22Sep #Sucre #Lluvias
AsĂ se encuentra la poblaciĂłn de #Manicuare municipio Cruz Salmeron Acosta del estado Sucre, luego le las fuertes lluvias en la tarde de hoy pic.twitter.com/xfd1NA5grk – @jcarolinaisava— Reporte Ya (@ReporteYa) September 23, 2019
Crews from the Ministry of Public Infrastructure were seen in different areas of Sucre state cleaning the areas most affected by the storm.
#URGENTE #Sucre | coletazos de la tormenta #Karen afectaron la poblaciĂłn de #Manicuare en la #PenĂnsuladeAraya | vĂa @Ysamira fotos: CortesĂa pic.twitter.com/rt9upthgV3
— Cima News Digital (@cimanewsdigital) September 22, 2019
But the storm also heavily affected Trinidad and Tobago and is also expected to hit Puerto Rico hard in the coming days, according to computerized models, indicating that after Puerto Rico the -now- storm will disappear in the north Atlantic ocean.
VIDEO: Flash flooding is taking place in portions of Tobago due to the passage of Tropical Storm Karen; this footage shows the flooding at the Trinidad & Tobago Electricity Commission’s Tobago Head Office (TTT) pic.twitter.com/P1aG3XPPDd
— Kevz Politics 🇧🇸 (@KevzPolitics) September 22, 2019
3:25pm: Rough Seas on the North West Coast of Trinidad hurdles water at Videographer.
Tropical Storm #Karen
More at: https://t.co/WvhB1Izgbq pic.twitter.com/GoejcZLs0p
— TTWeatherCenter (@TTWeatherCenter) September 22, 2019
2:50pm: Whilst its occupants flee for higher grounds, car is covered by flood waters during Tropical Storm #Karen, Belmont, Trinidad.
More at: https://t.co/WvhB1Izgbq pic.twitter.com/EzOowjY0Xa
— TTWeatherCenter (@TTWeatherCenter) September 22, 2019
Anti-Chavismo in Venezuela stormed twitter since Saturday night blaming President Maduro for what might happen because of Tropical Storm Karen and criticizing Governor Garcia Carneiro from La Guaira and even criticizing the recent change of name from Vargas State to La Guaira State, but reality did not provide them with a good excuse to keep up the attacks. Some Chavistas even compared what happened in Venezuela with the recent storm Imelda that blasted Houston as seen in the tweet below:
Vean este vĂdeo! Que desgobierno hay en ese lugar de verdad… Ya van 4 muertos…
Ojo no es el Estado La Guaira (O como los emocionalmente reprimidos le llaman, Vargas) Y tampoco el Gobernador es Carneiro, eso es en Houston, Texas, solo por el paso de la tormenta Imelda. pic.twitter.com/8IxchTtuxC— @ElMele4F🇻🇪 (@ElMele4F) September 22, 2019
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