👉 La tormenta inundó el Hospital Penna: el agua ha alcanzado hasta 40 cm, afectando áreas críticas como las zonas con incubadoras.
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00:00a different Friday, trying to collaborate with the people who need it, and well, now
00:06in these moments the precipitation has decreased a bit, videos are coming to us from everywhere,
00:13from all areas of the city, and it really is incredible, something that never happened.
00:19I think that in 1914 it was the highest millimeter that the city historically had, which was
00:25270 millimeters, and I think that we are already equalizing it or surpassing it, Luis.
00:31Of course.
00:32Where are you located at the moment, Sebastián?
00:36Well, now we are here in the Villa Mitre neighborhood, what is the center area, inside
00:43everything is quite good, the area, we remember that Bahía Blanca is located in a pit-type
00:48area, in which it comes, here we have Sierra de la Ventana, very close, which are the
00:54mountains, and well, obviously all the water flow comes, and it gets difficult, right?
01:00Because it rained very little time, so the flow is very strong, there are streets that
01:05were broken, cars that fell, in one of the main avenues, there is a hospital, which
01:11is Hospital Pena, which is one of the largest in southern Argentina, and it is being evacuated
01:19at the moment because it flooded up to the room of the patients, and I am very close,
01:25I am very close, I am about seven blocks from Hospital Pena, but really the situation
01:32is difficult, there are many people, Luis, they told me that, and some videos came to me,
01:38that there are people up on the ceiling, below what are the ceilings of the terrace, and
01:47because really now it went very strong again.
01:51Of course, we are seeing, I want to tell you, Sebastián, that while you are making this
01:55correct story, we are seeing the images of Pena, where you can see Neo, there you can
02:00clearly see beds, incubators, and nothing, the water has risen more than 40 centimeters,
02:08so it is seen at first glance, and look, the image is tremendous, and you were telling
02:14us, with the baby in the incubator, you were saying that it is one of the main hospitals
02:20in the southern area, Sebastián.
02:23Of course, exactly, one of the largest, most important, but really, looking at the images,
02:30the ambulances, Luis, floating, it is something that one never imagines, beyond the journalistic
02:36part and everything that one lives in the whole country with these climatic phenomena, but
02:41seeing that here in Bahía Blanca is a bit shocking, taking into account, Luis, that
02:46practically a year and a half ago we recovered from a tornado that was very strong here in
02:51our city.
02:52Of course.
02:53Sebastián, I keep asking, is there a unified command of instructions and what the Bahíenses
02:59have to do?
03:00In other words, is the authority of the case communicating, saying, go out, do not go out,
03:04go to this area, go to the other, or is it being done through you, the journalists?
03:10No, there was a statement yesterday and in recent days it has been alerted permanently
03:16in the WhatsApp groups, in the different platforms, and one takes advantage of the social networks
03:21in a good way, and also the media, it was reported permanently.
03:25Last night the classes had been suspended, the sports activities, here we have many
03:32sports activities such as niches and others, and well, at 9 p.m. everything had been suspended,
03:38that is, you could no longer go out.
03:40Of course, of course.
03:42Here we are, some messages are desperate that are telling us what is happening.
03:50I am in Coronel Rosales, which is the party next to Bahía Blanca, where Puerto Belgrano
03:56is.
03:57I can't speak, I'm trying to save my house, says Lorena, who is writing to us.
04:02I'm in Bahía Blanca, at least I still have cell phone data because there is no more
04:07internet.
04:08We do not know whether to stay or not for fear of being robbed.
04:11I suppose this ...
04:12The supermarket.
04:13What is this, sorry?
04:14It is a supermarket in Bahía Blanca.
04:15Damn it.
04:16The boxes are all ...
04:17Damn it.
04:18Look at the water, how it came in, floating the merchandise, it is shocking.
04:24Sebastián, I imagine that something will happen, that many floods happen, that many people
04:28do not want to leave their house for fear of being robbed, right?
04:33Yes, yes, totally.
04:36Within all, Bahía Blanca is still a city, in quotes, we are not going to be a little sensitive
04:43in the comment, but Bahía still takes care of itself a little in terms of security, because
04:51it is really difficult to leave the house.
04:54I already tell you, Luis, I am in an area, in a high area, in which, I don't know if
05:02you can see in the video, there is water, but it is not flooded, from boat to boat.
05:08But yes, I speak to you, ten blocks from this sector, everything is already flooded, right?
05:14Of course.
05:15Which is what I was telling you about the hospital.
05:18Of course, here we are seeing, Sebastián, the map of the area, where we are seeing,
05:24next to Punta Alta, there is this place that our colleague is writing to us, which is
05:29I say, the area is very extensive, very extensive, Nacho, how affected, right?
05:36Yes, of course, it has been raining since dawn in practically the entire region, and I verified
05:40the information with automatic stations from the entire area, and no drop of 250 millimeters.
05:46To give you an idea, the average monthly rain, the normal for March, is 70 millimeters,
05:51that is, we are four or five times above the average, and in a few hours, also.
05:57Look, Tatiana Solange is writing to us from here, from Punta Alta, and she is telling us,
06:02we are just like in Bahía Blanca, our mayor is Rodrigo Aristimuño.
06:07I say, how good it would be if all the mayors, quickly, made a statement
06:12of what to do, how to handle.
06:15I insist.
06:16Yes, do you want to say something, Sebastián?
06:18No, no, I was telling you that.
06:19I just got a message, and you see, Luis, what the moment is, right?
06:25Precisely, I have my grandmother in a home, in a home, where there are grandparents and others.
06:31It is also collapsed, and the home is flooding.
06:34So, look at the level, right?
06:36People don't know what to do either, because they have overcome everything, right?
06:40And we have to forget about the older people.
06:43Of course, totally, obviously.
06:45And know how to act.
06:47I insist, the practices of risk and damage reduction, once this type of collapse occurs,
06:54send the protocols.
06:56I feel that it has not been armed.
06:58I mean, yes, it was warned that classes were suspended, that there was no sport,
07:01but I think no one took the dimension of, correct me, Sebastián, if I'm wrong.
07:07No, no, there is no plan.
07:11It is as if it collapsed suddenly, taking into account a few minutes.
07:14But well, we have already had warnings.
07:16We have had warnings last year with the tornado,
07:20situations of unusual temperature here in Bahía Blanca.
07:24Yes, I agree with you, Luis.
07:27It seems to me that I say, apart from warning that there are no classes and that there is no sports activity,
07:32you have to send a protocol on how to act.
07:34If you go up to the terrace, if you don't do it, if you cut off the electricity.
07:38I'm not seeing it, I'm not seeing it.
07:40Yes, Nacho, you wanted to say.
07:42No, this bad weather system is going to start moving to the rest of the province of Buenos Aires,
07:46although it will not be the same meteorological phenomenon.
07:49That is, we will not have floods throughout the province of Buenos Aires.
07:52Between the end of the afternoon today, the night and the early morning tomorrow,
07:56it is very likely that a large part of the province of Buenos Aires,
07:59the south of the coast, Córdoba, will have strong gusts of wind,
08:02storms with a lot of water falling in short periods of time,
08:06and that is what will end this wave of heat that we have.
08:09High point.
08:10There I also sent some messages, some very kind videos.
08:13Lorena is helping us to do the coverage.
08:15High point. Miraculous days.
08:17It is exactly the same as what happens to us in Bahía Blanca,
08:20streets flooded, people having a very bad time, houses completely flooded.
08:27Are you still like this, Federico?
08:32No, we have been cut off.
08:34Well, it is obvious, people are working with cell phones through data.
08:39But I say, there is no internet service because the electricity was cut off, obviously.
08:44And they cut it off too.
08:45Well, there it is.
08:46Let's remember then that for all this area of the province of Buenos Aires
08:50and even the federal capital, the climax ...
08:53Sebastián, are you there, Sebastián?
08:56Yes, yes, I hear you, Luis.
08:57Tell me please, you were going to add something else.
09:01No, no, I was just listening to what people from Punta Alta were saying, right?
09:05Punta Alta is 30 kilometers from Bahía Blanca.
09:08It continues to rain, beyond that it is not with so much intensity,
09:13because up to a moment it was strong.
09:17And a little more, Luis, to take into account that there was hail two weeks ago,
09:22which also destroyed the city.
09:25Of course, of course.
09:27Two weeks ago we had a moment of great anguish
09:31because there was also hail, practically three hours, four hours of hail,
09:37the cars totally destroyed.
09:41That's why we come ...
09:42Look, here comes a civilian defense truck in the wrong hand.
09:48Excuse me a little for the unprovokedness, Luis, right?
09:50No, please.
09:51Things are going to happen and we are commenting on them.
09:53Please, it is obvious.
09:55This is how the places of refuge are being reiterated,
10:00which you are going to see, you are already seeing them,
10:02overprinted in our graph, below ours.
10:05They are trying to locate people who cannot be at home.
10:10In many other cases they do not want to leave their homes.
10:14Sebastián, in the neighborhood where you are, there is no electricity, right?
10:18There is no electricity.
10:19No, no.
10:20Practically in the whole city there is no electricity.
10:22I don't know if anyone will have a generator, but everything is cut off,
10:26we are without internet.
10:27And well, the advice for people is to try to save the phone battery.
10:33At this time, I think it is essential to try to take care of the phone
10:37to be in contact and be able to use it in the event of any emergency.
10:41Of course.
10:42Obviously.
10:44Yes, tell me the map.
10:46Well, I tell you that it continues to rain until approximately
10:4913 hours over the area of Bahía Blanca,
10:52perhaps with less intensity, but the storm zone
10:55will continue to affect that city, unfortunately.
10:58That is, you have to wait more than 50, 60 millimeters,
11:01plus those who have already fallen,
11:04because there are already more than 280 millimeters of precipitation
11:08since 5 in the morning.
11:10It is an extreme value of precipitation.
11:13And we see how the storm zone ...
11:15We surpassed the historical value.
11:19They surpassed it.
11:20In 1914 it was 270.
11:24They already surpassed it.
11:26There are already some automatic stations,
11:29I am reviewing the information,
11:30they reached 303 millimeters of rain over some neighborhoods of Bahía Blanca.
11:36So it is already a historical record.
11:38And see how from the afternoon the storm zone begins to move
11:42and towards the night ...
11:43This that Nacho shows is for you to understand it on the map.
11:46There we will see it.
11:47It is how it will go, as the day goes by,
11:49how the storm runs, Nacho.
11:51It will advance, it will spread to the northeast
11:54and it will begin to affect the rest of the province of Buenos Aires
11:57with heavy rains, gusts of wind from the southern sector
12:00and there is a probability that there will be hail.
12:02But the main phenomenon is the wind and the rain.
12:05Take into account the strong gusts of wind
12:08that would arrive approximately between 12 at night
12:12and 1 in the morning to Capital Federal.
12:15I say this because there are recitals,
12:17there are outdoor events,
12:19tonight is about Capital Federal.
12:21Keep in mind that after midnight
12:23the storm will surely reach the metropolitan area
12:26reaching a maximum intensity around 3 or 4 in the morning
12:30and tomorrow morning the storm system will move
12:34towards the Eastern Republic of Uruguay
12:36and south of the coast also to the province of Cordoba.
12:39It is very important what you are saying.
12:40The storm is coming to our area,
12:42no hail is ruled out, no amount of water is ruled out.
12:46Sorry?
12:47The wind is the main thing.