Winter Big Off in La Aldea.

Rainfall and hail left numerous incidents Sunday in the municipality of La Aldea, mainly in the banana plantations, and scarce water in dams.

When everything pointed to the storm that hit the Canary Islands left the islands, It is discharged into Sunday afternoon with great intensity in La Aldea de San Nicolás leaving records 51,2; 58,3 and 62,4 liters per square meter in different locations raingauges.

It was inside, to Inagua, El Viso, The hole, higher Tocodomán, Salt and Pino Gordo where the heaviest rainfall occurred that were run ravines, Caideros and ravines in minutes. At all times, the rains were accompanied by major electric appliance and hail that surprised the higher the amount.

However, the brunt of the effect of hail has led banana cultivation outdoors, flowering fruit as downpours and mangoes, as well as vegetable crops.

Regarding plataneras, technicians have valued considerable damage in pineapples that were about to be harvested, misestimating harvest. The impact of hail on bananas has caused the cracked and, therefore, loss of market value. The affected area is around the 75 hectares.

As for growing tomatoes, a priori, it seems that there has been no major damage, except for some structures they have suffered break from your deck. Even so, the technical show their prudence, as the effects of the weather in plants accuse days.

The picture that left the discharge of the storm in the township was the usual Caideros and ravines water dragging everything in its path. The high concentration of rainfall in such a short time, just three hours, It was enough to produce run-off, drag and landslides that have affected, above all, agricultural roads.

Despite the high flow quantity registered, 51,2 l / m2 in Valley Village, 58,3 l / m2 in El Hoyo or 62,4 l / m2 of Pino Gordo, dams have only received a contribution of just over 100.000 cubic meters (some 3.000 hours of water), They distributed among Caideros (72.000), Parralillo (10.800) y Siberia (18.000).

Anecdotally it should be noted landslides that occurred in the new road from Agaete to La Aldea yet untried, or plugging the drain Bridge Tocodomán, which also it is in rehabilitation.