Departmental
Grenada, Nicaragua
By: Omar Campbell
Community Correspondent
March 16, 2023
Several neighborhoods in the city of Granada were destroyed by the torrential downpour that fell from 11:45 p.m. to 1 a.m. today.
We spoke with affected residents, finding a case of a completely destroyed house, so that the inhabitants were left with only their clothes on, “the rain took everything with us.”
The house was inhabited by at least 14 people from José Armando’s family, including six children. José Armando’s house, built of blocks, collapsed. The damage was more than visible, there was not a single corner of the house that was not destroyed.
Armando asks that they support him with clothes, shoes, food, with a grain of sand, with a block, “my friends, that they put their hands on their conscience, because today it is me, and tomorrow it can be them”.
He said, very saddened, “here nothing can be recovered. That was around one-thirty on a Thursday morning. We called the fire brigade and they didn’t come, so I called the media, so they could see how we are doing,” he said. Armando’s house is three blocks south of the Salesiano school, halfway to the lake, and the phone number is 78194762.
The streets are destroyed in the “Carlos Manuel Montiel” settlement area where we spoke with Mrs. Pastora Marín Rugama, who said that the drain collapsed and that the neighbors complain that the “waters overflow from “El Chinchorro”, the highway, and instead of throwing it into the stream they come here, and since there is a funnel here, then we fill up.” The residents had been working since early Thursday morning cleaning. Some walls were collapsed.
He said that he makes a call to the Mayor’s Office, and that “they know me because last year I was a councilor.” We were informed that the Municipal Mayor’s Office of Granada, through the lawyer William Martínez and his crews, were in charge of carrying out works to clean up the flooded streets, in the sector of the “Carlos Manuel Montiel” settlement and cemetery street at the height of the Cast Conchita Lacayo.
We received calls from El Pantanal, El Madroño, El Fortin, Pancasan and Las Prusias, among others affected by the rains. The “residents of the neighborhoods that we were able to visit appreciate the support given by the municipal authorities, for cleaning their streets and sidewalks, which were visibly full of mud and garbage.