THE UNEQUAL PRECIPITATION LEFT IN SOME AREAS MORE THAN 200 LITERS.
The southwest storms in La Aldea de San Nicolás are known by the adults as “the times of chalihandra or chalijandra”. To refer to this time is to look at the Los Cedros mountain area, where he usually enters, and continues its journey towards the Tejeda ravine.
The explanation of the name is due, seems to be, Leandra's, a lady who lived in the heights of Cuermeja and who was the first to be affected by the arrival of the southwest downpours.
The storm that made its presence with all its forcefulness in the municipality early Tuesday morning, came to leave some 80 liters to Tasartico, 96 liters in the Valley and more than 200 liters on the peaks of Las Huesas, It diagnoses, Fat Pine, The Witches and Tocodomán.
Runoff has buried corrals, animals, farms and unused many of the accesses to the agricultural and livestock facilities of the municipality of La Aldea. The City Council's first assessment is close to one million euros in damages.
Despite the force of the wind and rain, The damage to agriculture has been less than that caused to livestock, where a farm was completely buried and nearly twenty goats and goats died drowned in mud and stones..
At this time, work is being done on the accesses to farms and livestock farms to evacuate the milk from the livestock and bring the feed from the livestock..
