HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 8 (acn) Several neighborhoods were flooded in the city of Pinar del Rio after heavy rains associated with tropical storm Collin dropped some 141 millimeters in 24 hours.
Specialists at the Provincial Meteorological Center reported that in the municipality of San Juan y Martinez the precipitations amounted for 220 millimeters, while in Paso Real de San Diego were 116, causing great accumulations of water in low areas.
Based on the forecasts of more rains in the next days, the Civil Defense in the Cuban westernmost province issue several alerts and activated some 39 brigades coming from other municipalities to help in the works to preserve human lives and material goods.
One major problem in the city as of this moment is, paradoxically, the water supply to its inhabitants, since the pipe system is down. Before the beginning of the rains, work was underway to repair the system, but the area is flooded, preventing access to the main line.
The provisional government allocated several trucks to take fresh water to the population, till the system is up and running in the next days, when the weather allows it
According to the head of the Agriculture Ministry in Pinar del Rio, Victor Fidel Hernández, a large part of the more than 38 thousand ha of plantations are under water, but the tobacco leaves stored at the curing barns are safe.
The damages to crops will be assessed once the rains stop, and the rice harvest will continue, in one of the areas with the highest yield in Cuba.
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