OCTOBER 14:
10:40 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.:
Community – Information Provided
Encuentros – River overflowed, evacuation of Luis Cruz
La Naranja – River overflowed, 8 meters from the radio house, evacuation is proceeding
El Limon – Lorenzo Quintero evacuated
La Danta – Incommunicado because of overflowing stream
Chacaras – Rio negro overflowing, 5 families evacuated
Limon – 2 mudslides en el Cerro Las Mesas, fallen trees on the road
1 family evacuated from the home of Pedro MArtinez
3 families evacuated from a home in Altagracia
1 family incommunicado by mudslides on the property of Carlos Blandon
La Danta – 1 family at risk, declines to be evacuated (Maria del Carmen Mendoza)
Barrio Jose Esteban Moncada – Evacuation of family because of overflowing stream, Juana Sanchez 4 children, 7 adults
Chacaras – 6 families evacuated, 2 families in the school and the rest in homes of relatives
La Naranja – River overflowing, 2 families evacuated in champas (rafts?), Modesto Vasquez and Tono Castellon
Encuentros – River overflowing, evacuation of Luis Cruz
Agua Fria – Risk of mudslide on the El Guaylo mountain
Possible Evacuatión of the part below the school
Colocondo – House destroyed by the river, Elva Jarquin
Ojochal – House of Mercedes Centeno destroyed
Los Corredores – 5 houses semi-destroyed
Barrio Jose Esteban Moncada – Semi-destroyed house (kitchen), Justo Castillo
6:00 p.m. to Midnight:
Report – Evacuated – Place
Rafael Mendoza – 3 children, 2 adults – Children’s feeding center (Comedor Infantil)
5 families – 7 children, 9 adults – Calvario shelter
1 – 1 – Casa de Cultura (cultural center shelter)
Cuadrilla (work crew) from Union Fenosa electric company
OCTOBER 15:
Midnight to 6:00 a.m.:
Chuvascos [downpour?] with greater intensity
Decrease in rain
Rain started again
The Los Quesos River on the Walilica bridge rose again in level
Water level on the Old Trail remains the same
Nothing new from the shelter
Water over top of El Mosquito wall
Decrease in rain
Lowering of the river level on the Walilica bridge, 5 meters measured between ramp and pavement
Shelters remain the same, except for an increase of 1 family/ 2 persons at El Calvario
Large stream is down in the El Calero [Rio Abajo] sector
Mosquito bridge is passable
El Morcillo community reports a fallen tree in the road near the community well, property of Leonel Chavarria
Barrio Jose Esteban Moncada, 1 house with partial damage to the walls: Jose Santos Arostegui.
6:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.:
Community – Information Provided
La Danta – 15 houses flooded by internal springs; families auto-evacuated to relatives
Guanacaston – 1 house collapsed (1 family: 2 adults, 1 child) Naun Alvarenga
Agua Fria – 14 families auto-evacuated into 3 houses
La Danta – Mudslide on El Cacao hill
OCTOBER 16:
One report:
With regard to basic services, there has been no electricity in the town center, nor in the communities that have electrical service, since Thursday, October 14. This has brought about large losses: We don’t have liquid gas service, or gasoline or diesel fuel. Basic food has risen in price by 100%.
The only accessible way in or out of the municipality of Limay currently is through San José de Achuapa [leading west, toward Leon], which is in bad shape, making communication difficult.
They are suspending classes. This is the preliminary report gleaned from some residents of communities in the municipality by means of radio, telephone and some places which it has been possible to corroborate on site.
Until this moment, we have a recorded rainfall from Tuesday, October 10, through Sunday, October 16, of 489.63 millimeters, according to a rainfall station located in the offices of MAGFOR [Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry] in the town center.
Another report:
At 4:30 pm, it was reported to us at the command post that 10 meters of retaining wall were destroyed on the north side of the Barrio Rigoberto Cabezas, in front of the house of doña Ramona Jarquin.
Photos and ages of the auto-evacuated persons are pending, owing to the inaccessibility from rivers and streams which are deep, and the roads which are inaccessible, and problems with electricity which made it difficult for us to send photos in a timely manner with their respective reports. Hoping, with faith in God, that it doesn’t rain, in order to gain access to these places.
OCTOBER 17:
Report: 12:30 am
The following were received from SINAPRED (Esteli Departmental committee). [Note: SINAPRED is the national agency which handles emergencies and disaster relief.]:
86 sleeping mats, 86 blankets, 100 hammocks, 100 ropes, 43 food packets, 14 sacks containing rations of peas, corn and rice, 9 gallons of cooking oil
Report: 9:50 am
We enclose the names of the isolated communities in the Municipality of San Juan de Limay, until Monday, October 17, 2011:
El Palmar (324 inhabitants), Quebrada de Agua (753 inhabitants), Chacaras (213 inhabitants), Tablones (191 inhabitants), Guanacaston (291 inhabitants), La Palma (237 inhabitants), Rodeito ( 82 inhabitants), Las Mesas (67 inhabitants), Chilamatillo (80 inhabitants), La Tigra (24 inhabitants), Ojochito (23 inhabitants). These are isolated by the overflowing river, and there is no pasaje by the La Naranja bridge and the Negro river. There is no passage to San Francisco del Norte. SubTotal: 2,285 inhabitants
Other isolated communities: Terrero No. 1 (90 inhabitants), Tranquera (447 inhabitants) , Las Canarias (220 inhabitants), Los Encuentros (123 inhabitants), Colocondo (115 inhabitants), El Naranjo (244 inhabitants), Las Brisas (124 inhabitants). SubTotal: 1,163 inhabitants
[Note: The following communities are on or near the road from Estelà to Limay.] These communities can be attended to by EstelÃ: Pedernal (217 inhabitants), Loma Atravesada (47 inhabitants), Comayagua (169 inhabitants), San Antonio del Comayagua (95 inhabitants), Fraternidad (230 inhabitants), El Zapote, Santa Pancha (102 inhabitants), San Luis (602 inhabitants). Subtotal: 1,462 inhabitants
At the moment, members of COMUPRED (Mayor’s office, MAGFOR [Ministry of Agriculture & Forestry], MINSA [Ministry of Health], ENACAL [Water and Sewage Administration], MINED [Ministry of Education]) are visiting some communities to see whether they can reach them. I continue below with these:
San Lorenzo, Las Canas, Guaylo, Agua FrÃa, Ojochal, Danta, Jicarito, Limón, La Flor, El Calero, EL Morcillo, La Naranja, Los Colorados, La Grecia, Redes de Esperanza.
At the moment, they inform us that they are bringing one person in a hammock from the community of El Palmar, in order to see if we can pass her to La Naranja.
Sincerely,
Gerardo Romero Hernandez
Sria, Municipal COMUPRED
Third report:
-MINSA [Ministry of Health] requested medicines in order to attend to the shelters and communities that are reporting cases of fevers. Medical prophylaxis is being continued for prevention of leptospirosis.
-An oxygen tank (220 lbs.), 200 liters of diesel, and 100 liters of gasoline were requested.
-There was coordination for the transport of a pregnant woman in labor from Tranqueras, and a boy with dysentery from the community of Ocotillo, to Esteli by MINSA of Esteli. The pregnant woman, Sandra Francisca, will leave today from the community of Deshecho, PG ADOL+EAT+STP. She will wait at the entrance to Colocondo for a vehicle to be sent.
Communities with new effects:
La Palma: 12 houses semi-destroyed. Of these, 8 have roof damage and 4 have damage to the walls (the heads of the families are Feliciana Hernández, Evangelista Hernández, Nicolasa Zamora, and Juan Zamora). 6 families auto-evacuated, comprising 20 persons; 6 children, 14 adults. 18 families (80 persons) at risk on the mountain slope of Los Caballos.
El Limon: Reports effects to the cattle. 5 dead bovines, 4 other animals dead, 10 poultry dead.
Los Tablones: 4 houses semi-destroyed.
Los Encuentros: The community of Los Encuentros reported via telephone at 5:30 p.m. that 10 families auto-evacuated.
Lifelines:
There is electricity since 4:30 pm on October 16.
We have telecommunication (conventional telephones, cellular, Internet).
They are working to re-establish a connection toward San Jose de Achuapa.
Report on activities of October 17:
Rainfall for the day was 50 millimeters.
Meeting at 7 am to evaluate the situation and make decisions for the course of the day
After a small evaluation of climatic conditions with which the day began, the decision was made to assign teams to visit some communities and evaluate their situation.
Community – Persons Assigned
Las ca̱as РMelvin Corea (MAGFOR), Omar Espinoza (MINED)
El Guaylo – Harold Aguirre (MAGFOR), Luis IrÃas (INTA)
Agua FrÃa – Rufino Vindell (MAGFOR), Benito MartÃnez (AlcaldÃa)
Ojochal – Jonathan Maldonado (MAGFOR), Everth Talavera (PolicÃa)
Danta – Armando Guerrero (AlcaldÃa), Alejandro Bravo (AlcaldÃa)
Jicarito – Everth Blandón (MAGFOR), Carlos Lazo (AlcaldÃa)
El Limón – Nancy Calderón (MAGFOR) Gustavo (FAO)
La Flor – Edwin Corea (AlcaldÃa) Rosibel RodrÃguez (FAO)
El Calero – Daniel Santos Vindell (ENACAL) Glenda Castro y Julia González (MINED)
El Morcillo – Milton Hernández (MINED) Ãngela Rosa Vásquez (MIFAMILIA)
Los Colorados – Jairo Osorio y MarÃa Nela Pichardo (AlcaldÃa)
La Naranja – Mauricio Betanco (MAGFOR) Pedro Betanco (MINED)
San Lorenzo – Julián Valdivia y Reynaldo Reyes (MINED) Mario Guzmán (MAGFOR)
La Grecia – Juan José Cruz (MARENA) Armando Zeledón (MINED)
Redes de Esperanza – Ubence Castillo y Pablo Mairena (AlcaldÃa/PIMCHAS)
They returned by the afternoon with the information that it was possible to compile until this moment.
It is worth mentioning that the formatted tables were used, but it wasn’t possible to collect all the information that they ask for. In the formatted tables which are being sent, the information is generalized across the municipality.
Other activities carried out:
A patient from the community of El Palmar was transported to the health center in the town of Limay.
The produce from ENABAS [Nicaraguan Basic Foods Agency] was distributed in the communities of Mateares, Tranqueras, Pedernal and Parcila.
Tomorrow the communities of Las Canarias, San Luis, Platanares will be supplied [with food] if the situation improves, since the food trucks are getting stuck in the community of Mateares.
Work continues on the repair of the road to the municipality of Achuapa.
Of the communities visited, only the communities of El Guaylo, Agua Fria and Ojochal could not be reached because the streams were full.
OCTOBER 18:
Report from MINSA [Health department]
The transport was attended to of a patient from El Palmar to the hospital in San Juan de Limay. We have admitted him with a diagnosis of a right inguinal hernia (reducible). He was transported from one side of the river to the other by pneumatic means, with the collaboration of swimmers native to the zone. At the same time the sector of El Palmar – Guanacaston was supplied with enough medicines for one month.
Medication of the town center was carried out with health brigade workers, personnel from the health department and GPC (1,356 inhabitants). All received their first dose.
Medical attention was given to the sector of San Lorenzo and La Naranja. Two pregnant patients were transported (one from Mateares and the other from El Desecho/Colocondo).
A request was attended to for chlorine, oral serum, acetaminophen, and chemical prophylaxis for the prevention of leptospirosis.
Report on activities of October 18:
Meeting at 8:30 am to evaluate the situation and make decisions for the course of the day
After a small evaluation of climatic conditions with which the day began, the decision was made to assign teams to visit some communities which it was not possible to reach yesterday, and evaluate their situation.
Community – Persons Assigned
Guaylo – Harold y Argentina
Agua FrÃa – Rufino y Mario Guzmán
Ojochal – Melvin Corea
Personnel from the mayor’s office, MINSA [health department] and MAGFOR [department of agriculture and forestry] were divided up, to go door-to-door in all the barrios [neighborhoods] of the central town of Limay, to hand out doxycycline against leptospirosis. They were assigned as follows:
Barrio – Persons Assigned
Roberto López – Rosario Aguilar, Mauricio Betanco
Adrian Morales – Ramona Soriano, Ernesto RodrÃguez, Lesbia Mondragon
Rodolfo Herrera – Hamel Lazo, Carlos Lazo, Brenda y Yorling
Silvio Bravo – Alex Talavera, Nancy, Karla y Ligia
Mario RodrÃguez – Benito, Gerardo y Osman Rosales
José Esteban Moncada
When they finish the barrios to which they’re assigned, they will go to the barrios of Jose Esteban Moncada and Rigoberto Cabeza, because they are larger.
Starting at 10:00 am, at the Walilica bridge, persons who were on the other side of the river were passed [to this side] by cable. We enclose photos.
OCTOBER 19:
The weather situation remains similar to previous days. Precipitation measured up until 8:00 am today is 77 millimeters. The rain has been constant but not strong, a little more intense than yesterday.
The two shelters which have remained active are continuing without change, with 14 families in the Casa de Cultura and 4 families in Lirios del Valle.
No more auto-evacuees have been reported in the outlying communities, nor in the central town of Limay.
The distribution of food packets was organized for families affected in the communities. The distribution was done in accordance with the needs reported by their leaders:
• La Grecia – 8 food packets
• Las Brisas – 7 food packets
• La Danta – 7 food packets
• El Limón – 7 food packets
• Los Colorados – 3 food packets
• La naranja – 2 food packets (to the rescue crew who are helping to pass the sick over the La Naranja river)
• El Palmar – 1 food packet given to a sick person in the hospital, originating from this community
The communities of San Luis, Santa Pancha, La Fraternidad, La Laguna, Loma Atravesada, Pedernal, Tranqueras, Mateares, Parcila, Colocondo, Los Encuentros, El Naranjo, Platanares, Comayagua, and Las Canarias are being evaluated by a team consisting of Gilma Rosales [former mayor], Digna Betanco, Pedro Llanes, Pablo Mairena, Ubence Castillo and a support team from Esteli, since access is impossible from the central town of Limay.
We continue without access to the communities of Guanacaston, La Palma, El Palmar, Ojochito, Los Tablones, Las Chacaras and Quebrada de Agua, since the level and the force of the river at the La Naranja bridge have not diminished. For that reason, the only form of contact has been by radio with the communities of Las Chacaras and El Guanacaston. A system of cable over the river was established in the Walilica sector on October 18, with the objective of transporting food from ENABAS [department of basic foods] and persons who became trapped on the other side of the river for the past week.
The transport which we succeeded in carrying out was the following:
October 18, 80 persons and 150 oil drums
October 19, 50 persons and 24 hundred-pound sacks of sugar and 17 hundred-pound sacks of rice
At 6:40 pm a telephone report came in of a mudslide in the community of El Zapote which affected two houses. It is not known where the refugees are. Also four pregnant women are reported to be in labor, and the community also asks to be provided with food.