👉 Voluntarios se movilizan para brindar ayuda con ropa y alimentos, mientras las autoridades intentan drenar el agua estancada. La comunidad lucha contra la contaminación y el miedo a saqueos, mientras algunos vecinos se niegan a evacuar para proteger lo poco que les queda. La situación es crítica, con cloacas desbordadas y agua contaminada amenazando la salud de los habitantes. A pesar de todo, la solidaridad prevalece en medio del desastre.
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00:00The Fund of Hope is starting an excavation to try to get a ditch to try to drain part of this whole neighborhood.
00:12Here are the volunteers, girls who have brought clothes because people don't have clothes,
00:18they don't have shoes, they don't have absolutely anything.
00:21And they have gathered to bring donations to the people who were in great need here.
00:27There are other volunteers, as you can see there, with dryers, with buckets to clean.
00:31There is a lot of pollution.
00:33There are seagulls sprouting waste from hours in the morning.
00:39What they try to drain on one side comes to the other.
00:41I'm going to come here to talk to the girls who brought bags of clothes.
00:45Girl, how old are you?
00:46Twenty.
00:47Did your house flood?
00:48No, because the water doesn't come here.
00:50We are trying to help the neighbors who did have problems.
00:56What did they bring?
00:57All the clothes.
00:58All the clothes or nothing?
00:59Yes, all the clothes.
01:00Only clothes and shoes.
01:03What problems did you find when you went to bring clothes?
01:05How did people receive them?
01:07Not well.
01:08There were people who obviously needed it because they had given it all away, poor people.
01:12So nothing.
01:13Cold dead.
01:14Yes.
01:17Well, let's move on here.
01:18Well, all the young girls who have come to donate clothes to the volunteers
01:23because they have seen in the morning that no one arrived here.
01:27Yes, yes, now we are going to start increasing this.
01:30It is getting worse.
01:32This is the beginning of the catastrophe.
01:35Look, water cans.
01:37If you need rain, there is no drinking water.
01:40All the water is contaminated, the naps are contaminated.
01:45This dog that is here, that we gave him to eat today, is a survivor.
01:51He was saved above the roof of this house.
01:54And just a few hours ago they came to rescue him.
01:58He didn't want to go and they ended up taking him down to his land, let's say,
02:02and he stayed to take care of his land.
02:04He was given food, water, and he stayed in his place.
02:10How moving what you tell, Ale, that he stayed to take care of the land of his own, of his family.
02:15Sure, and Ale, you point out that deep down there is hope, the possibility of making a ditch.
02:20I imagine it's something big.
02:23How far is that?
02:25And if that would help drain all the water that we still see?
02:30Yes, we are going to try to get there, Facu, little by little.
02:34And we see where they are trying to drain the water.
02:37Because the idea is to try at some point to drain all this.
02:42It's not a drop, the water is not draining.
02:46Even more water has piled up in the last few hours.
02:51And it started to get to the other side with a lot of mud.
02:54Do you see that the water is with a lot of mud?
02:56Well, there is another place that they have not identified.
03:00They were just asking the drone of one of the colleagues to identify where the water is coming from.
03:05And they discovered that from the mouth of the storm,
03:08from what is part of a ditch, a stream that is about 15 blocks from here,
03:14the water is sprouting there.
03:15So it is believed that in addition to the broken pipes and everything that happened,
03:19there is a part that is entering water again from all over this neighborhood.
03:26It is impressive that you have water to the right, to the left, in front and behind, Ale.
03:32There is no way out.
03:35Yes, yes. Look, here it has formed like a lagoon.
03:39Marina, there is a lagoon that has remained in the neighborhood like in a well.
03:44The streets have been plowed.
03:46It is very difficult to walk.
03:48The people who arrive find everything dirty.
03:52With the things of all their lives destroyed.
03:55Some have had to evacuate.
04:00And others stayed to take care of things,
04:02take care of things so that they do not steal them.
04:04I bother you.
04:05One minute and we are live for A24.
04:09I approach.
04:10Are you dead cold?
04:11Are you, well, barefoot, trying to clean?
04:14We are, yes, trying to clean.
04:16We came there, the water went down a bit.
04:18So there we are.
04:19Did you decide to evacuate when everything was full of water?
04:21Yes, I took my children's house, so I came to look for them.
04:24I came to look for them, I'm on the other side.
04:26I came to look for them and I took them, because they can't be here.
04:30Where was the water when you came to look for them?
04:32On the knees.
04:33On the knees when you came to look for them?
04:34Yes, yes.
04:35And if you went down to the street, did it reach your chest?
04:38Of course, yes, yes.
04:39It reaches your waist, it takes you here and it goes down to here.
04:42But hey, it was stagnant, so nothing, the boys are working.
04:45Did you come to clean something?
04:47Now, just today, we came again and trying to clean a little,
04:52for the issue that it can be contaminated and all those things.
04:56Thank you very much.
04:57Well.
04:58It is an almost impossible task, because the water is still there.
05:04Of course, luckily he was able to get it out of his house or it already went down.
05:08But it is very difficult to start cleaning and hygiene tasks with stagnant water in a lagoon.
05:15What caught your attention in the water?
05:16These are already wastes.
05:17These are already wastes.
05:18Yes, they are wastes.
05:19Wastes, of course.
05:20There is a lot of contamination.
05:22We are receiving you with some difficulty, Ale.
05:25With some friction in the microphone.
05:29Yes, yes.
05:30As if the signal was ...
05:31I said today that this microphone was not going to give me, but it did.
05:33There it is a little better, Ale.
05:34There it is a little better.
05:35It's okay, it's okay.
05:36Yes, no, but I had already warned you about this.
05:39Well, we keep walking now to the part where it is working.
05:46If it fails, tell me, we'll change it.
05:49Yes, it fails, it fails.
05:50I hear it.
05:51We're going to get it out.
05:52Give me a minute.
05:53Yes, yes.
05:54Yes, we stayed with this image, which are the neighbors.
05:56This is what comes later, Marina.
05:57Of course.
05:58This is what comes later.
05:59This is what comes later, but it is also the need of the neighbors to start cleaning their houses,
06:05to recover what little was left after the water.
06:08And this image of neighbors who do not want to evacuate because of fear of looting, of theft, is also shocking.
06:14We have the official figures of the detainees.
06:17Yes, yes, yes.
06:18In a while you will see the opposite of all solidarity.
06:20We also ask ourselves, is solidarity coming there?
06:23Are donations coming?
06:25Now we are going to address it with Ale.
06:26In a minute, the opposite.
06:28Yes, the people detained in these last five days for different thefts.
06:33There in the background of the image, Marina, there is an excavator shovel, which is probably trying to deform the ground to try to dig and build a way out of this water.
06:44Horacio, how are you? Good afternoon.
06:45How are you? Good morning.
06:46Well, clearly, if there is no, let's say, a channel to get the water out.
06:51They are not going to get it out.
06:53It is very difficult because the lagoons in any place deform in that way.
06:57That is, once the water falls, imagine that if it evaporates, it rains again, again you have water in the same place.
07:04Yes or yes, you have to make a channel for the water to run to a stream, to a certain place.
07:11Ale!
07:12We remember that the Attorney General re-ratified today the figure of 96, 94 people who were reported as missing.
07:20Shall we go back to Ale?
07:21Yes, I think we have recovered the audio.
07:23Tell us, Ale, to see if we can hear you.
07:27Let's change the microphone.
07:29I want to approach a young man who is coming down the stairs.
07:33I think he's helping.
07:36Teacher, do I bother you?
07:38Are you helping or are you from here?
07:40No, I'm from here.
07:41I came down the stairs to put something on the roof to see if it dries.
07:43You are putting things on the roof of your house.
07:44Where is your house?
07:45The one in the corner.
07:46The one in the corner?
07:47Yes.
07:48Now we are going to let you know.
07:49And are you trying to go up everything?
07:50We are, yes.
07:51Let's see if it dries, Ale.
07:52Yes, let's see if we can, if it works, if it doesn't work, you see.
07:54You stayed, you never left?
07:55No, I never left.
07:56Were you afraid of being robbed?
07:57Robbed, yes.
07:58Yesterday, before yesterday, we found out that a lady's house was looted.
08:03The lady's house was looted?
08:04With the wet appliances.
08:05With a meter and a half of water.
08:06Yes.
08:07Your name?
08:08Manuel.
08:09Manuel, I heard your name.
08:10Facundo Pastor.
08:11Hello.
08:12And Irina Calabro, who wanted to talk to you.
08:13How are you?
08:14Manuel.
08:15Hello, how are you?
08:16Thank you for attending us.
08:17Good afternoon.
08:18Good afternoon.
08:19Have you already started the tasks of saving what can be, of cleaning what can be?
08:24Do you no longer have water inside your house?
08:26No, thank God, it already drained and well, we are seeing what works, what does not work.
08:33And what works?
08:34What could you see?
08:35That it could be rescued there.
08:36Of course, what could you rescue?
08:37And what was ruined?
08:38Yes.
08:39Yesterday we were with the tasks of the issue of clothes, because well, it was 20 minutes
08:46where we lost everything, you see, and everything was flooded.
08:49Sure.
08:51So the clothes, well, we saved them to be able to wash and then the rest, a lot
08:55does not work.
08:56I have a mattress that I managed to save and the rest of the thing was all under water.
09:00And now the idea of the ladder is to put everything on the roof?
09:03The little that was saved on the roof and who is going to take care of it?
09:05Exactly, because yes.
09:06And no, I stay, I did not leave at any time.
09:09And how do you sleep?
09:10They evacuated my wife, my family.
09:12Where are you sleeping?
09:13I'm there doing night, no, no, here at home.
09:16I have a mattress that I saved and I had it on the table.
09:19Then, well, nothing, we did not stay.
09:21Did you sleep on the table?
09:22Yes, on the mattress.
09:23And then there is no other.
09:25Yesterday I already, I was drained yesterday, I was able to accommodate again, the base of the
09:30sleeping bag dried up and well, I already threw the mattress there.
09:32Sure.
09:33I was able to clean a little, remove the mud and wait for it to dry a little, disinfect,
09:38because imagine that this water is all that comes out of the toilets, from everywhere.
09:42The water has been stagnant for five days, imagine.
09:45How much water did you get to have inside?
09:48How many centimeters?
09:49In my house, more or less, it reached 40 centimeters, yes.
09:51A lot, a lot.
09:53And the most expensive, you see, that one thinks about the refrigerator, the TV, those articles
09:58that are difficult to replace, you see, that cost a fortune.
10:02Yes.
10:04Yes, out there, you see, well, I, on the day of the storm, one gets bitter, but what
10:09first thinks is that the family is fine, the material, you see.
10:12Yes.
10:13What do I do?
10:14You have to keep working.
10:15One ends up confirming with that that it is not a small thing, right?
10:17That the family is fine.
10:18And what happens is that there is no other, if not ...
10:20There is no other, cling to that.
10:22If you look back ...
10:23Are you working, do you work?
10:25They will make you cry.
10:26And yes.
10:27Yes, now I have a job, thank God, and I don't know when I will go back to work, because
10:32in the sector where I work, it also collapsed in flooding.
10:35Where are you?
10:36Where do you work?
10:37I'm in Huaite.
10:39Ah, of course, it's very complicated.
10:41I don't know, I don't know anything.
10:43Sure, and where do you work specifically in Huaite?
10:46What do you do?
10:47I work with a company that provides industrial services.
10:50Sure.
10:51We are in the entire Huaite sector, in the different plants, but well, from what I understand,
10:56everything is stopped.
10:57So I don't know when ... I don't have any news at all, really, I don't know.
11:01Nobody even called you from the company to work.
11:03I'm ... no, I think they must be just like us.
11:08Sure, sure.
11:09And your children, because you said, my wife and my children, I had to evacuate them.
11:14Obviously, you stayed to take care of things.
11:16But how do they live it?
11:18One thinks of the boys who lose everything too, who get scared.
11:23And I have two little children who, well, thank God, we try to distract and make them
11:28a little out of reality.
11:29You see, they are small and out there they see it in another way.
11:32Yes, my wife was sad too, imagine that ... We moved here three months ago.
11:38And it cost us a lot to make the house, everything, and you come and see all this and ...
11:42Ah, it's bitter, you know?
11:44Sure.
11:45Well, what can you do, you have to keep working.
11:47Sure, there is no other.
11:48There is no other.
11:49There is a hope, Alejandro.
11:50Yes, you have to try to be as positive as possible.
11:52That it is the machine that is in the background that can do ... that you can dig a little
11:56to see if that drains more.
11:58How do you see that?
11:59As it is.
12:00Yes, no, thank God they started to move, you see, and ...
12:03Okay, the first few days we were kind of sad here because there was no movement
12:10of anything, you see?
12:11Without really knowing the magnitude of the storm in other sectors too, which, well ...
12:16Sure.
12:17Then, once I was able to have communication again and see the social networks and that,
12:22with the phone, I saw that they were everywhere, very collapsed.
12:25Sure.
12:26And help was something.
12:28And I repeat, you settle for tranquility, for being well, nothing more.
12:31This one that appears there is yours or is someone's?
12:34It is lost.
12:35No, this ... no, it's a puppy that is always here, no, no.
12:38But they feed it, they take care of it.
12:40There was all the storm with us.
12:42Yes, yes.
12:43These days that the media appeared, we began to have a lot of help, that people were not
12:48aware that there was such a flooded sector.
12:50Sure.
12:51And a lot of people have come to help, people from places where they take care of the pets
12:56and that, they bring food, everything.
12:58A lot of solidarity help from people.
13:01And did someone give you a hand?
13:03Yes, yes, yes.
13:04Just showed Facundo and showed Ale the excavator to see if they can exhaust a little
13:10that lagoon that was built.
13:12Look, we ...
13:13But someone brought them something.
13:14The storm was on Friday.
13:16The storm was on Friday and Sunday at noon I think people found out that we were here
13:21because we decided to go to cut the route.
13:24Ah.
13:25And there appeared ...
13:26You had to move there.
13:28And what happens is that if we were not going to be here at night with the water covered,
13:33you see, it is an uncertainty.
13:35And we were with the ... we are already tired, we are already tired.
13:40And what came?
13:41Honestly, one does not want to walk on the water anymore and that.
13:43They have the basics to eat.
13:44No, actually people came to work, to drain.
13:46Yes.
13:47No, and then yes, that's all solidarity people who come and distribute because the truth
13:52that a lot of football clubs came, from here, from the premises, churches,
13:58they come with the food.
13:59All voluntary.
14:00All voluntary.
14:01All totally voluntary.
14:02The truth is that, look, there have been so many people who do not know who to thank,
14:06but ...
14:07Of course, of course, of course.
14:08Many boys.
14:09Now this is ... this is nothing.
14:11You imagine that there were almost 40 centimeters more than the level we are now.
14:15The boys with cold on Saturday night coming with food, they brought us candles, drinking water.
14:22So no, thank God, a solidarity goes up.
14:26There the camera gets a little distracted in the images of the water, right?
14:30Yes.
14:31The water is going down very cloudy and that is a danger, right?
14:35They have to take it into account.
14:36Yes.
14:38Yes, as is.
14:39Yes, that's why, you see, here in this block, for example, which is one of the most affected,
14:43because the one behind is worse, the neighbors evacuated, the vast majority evacuated.
14:49We have three or four neighbors who stayed with us at night and ...
14:52But then the kids can't be here, like having a child there.
14:55Of course.
14:56And you still don't have a panorama of when that will be habitable, right?
15:00Like for your family to come back.
15:02Yes, because it seems to me that the worst is still to come.
15:05Of course.
15:06After the water comes out.
15:07Of course.
15:08Because, yes, everything is flooded here, you see?
15:11The streets, the services of the culoacas, everything, no, no.
15:16I mean, we here, there are no culoacas and we drive with a well and that, but everything is overturned.
15:20Imagine that everything is collapsed here.
15:24And well, we thank you, of course.
15:27Keep going, so we don't take too long and we continue the story of Ale.
15:31Thank you, brother.
15:32Ale, all yours.
15:33The road, well, also in the middle of the pollution.
15:36Of course.
15:37You have to say it, trying to get home.
15:41The truth is that the sheets have sprung up and well, everything that is waste now begins to sprout.
15:49Look at this house, they have put the clothes on the walls, the mattresses above the ceilings.
15:55Well, the attempt to start drying what the water destroyed to see what is left standing and what they will never recover again.
16:05Of course.
16:06It is part of what we have to go through.
16:09We are going to get to the ditch that they are doing.
16:11What they are doing is a street like this one that they are plowing to try to generate a ditch and thus finish draining part of the water that is piling up here to the side of the route
16:29and that there on the way down can reach another ditch that they made so that it does not flood the neighboring neighborhood.
16:36Of course.
16:37Because they were going to drain this and they said, stop, what happened, stop, they are going to throw water at my house, right?
16:41Of course, Ale.
16:42Well, and then there was a discussion and now they are trying to drain that to the other side.
16:48Look how cloudy the water is, how complicated it is to walk, there is a lot of mud underneath and we are going to get to the machine that is working and that is starting to do.
16:59Ale, that's like walking on mud. What is the feeling you have with your boots? Mud?
17:06Mud, very unstable apart, very unstable.
17:10And also be careful because it is a very regular terrain, there are wells.
17:17A ditch, here is the shovel, starting to make a kind of channel so that the water starts from here.
17:28Look where the machine is, how well they move the terrain a little, it drains, doesn't it seem?
17:39Yes, we have to see if they can get as much soil out as for the water to go to that part that is so high.
17:44Of course.
17:45It will be very difficult for it to go down to that side, but hey, they are trying.
17:49Of course, it doesn't look good either.
17:51Because it is the only place where they would not affect a neighborhood.
17:53Maybe it is a problem of perspective, Ale, but we don't see the slope, the slope of the terrain from here.
17:59I don't know if you are in the place of the facts if you see it.
18:01There is not, there is not.
18:02There is not, of course, that's why the task is very complicated.
18:05The water is returning to the square where I am now, look.
18:07Of course.
18:08The water goes and comes, it depends on how the current is.
18:11I saw Ale with a certain, of course, I saw with a certain illusion, but I realize that it is the movement of the shovel, no more.
18:18Of course, because look how the water, instead of going to Ale's back, returns to what was the beginning of his journey.
18:31Yes, yes, it will be a hard work.
18:33We have more than 100 meters to dig, as they are doing now, to reach another ditch that the water should drain there.
18:41This is being done since the media arrived at this place.
18:45We were the first to arrive where there was no type of assistance and then behind us the volunteers.