2024-01-14 11:01:13
He “Meeting of the Singer and the Peasant Woman” It has already become a traditional festival event in northern Neuquén, which every summer dedicates time and effort so that everyone has fun and has a good time: artists, vendors and the public. The meeting is already in its 9th. edition, but this Saturday in the little town of Taquimilán ended very badly, for one swirl of wind and earthas fierce as it was brief, which devastated the stalls of the craft fair, causing losses, leaving two women injured (slightly) and since the electrical installation had suffered serious damage and was a danger, the local commune ordered that the party be suspended.
Saturday seemed like just another summer, sunny and hot, and the wind phenomenon lasted very little: it can be seen in the social media videos that the gale forms and heads right to the place of the craft fair, then crosses a street land on which there were numerous cars parked, and it dissipates immediately, remaining like an almost unreal flash. Literally, a “lousy weather joke.”
“It was an ugly moment, everything blew up, the wind destroyed the stalls, the fairgrounders lost their things, but also many cables were left scattered everywhere and it was dangerous, so everything had to be suspended,” they said from the local commune. The entire whirlwind episode left 9 people with various injuries, but two women had minor injuries that required them to be transferred for better care to the Chos Malal Hospital, a town located 20 kilometers away.
However, the ambulance also had problems, it did not want to start and they had to push it to start it. “Yes, they pushed an ambulance two blocks that didn’t start. What happened is that they took the ambulance we had in Taquimilán to Buta Ranquil and brought us the one that was there. They exchanged us for one that doesn’t work properly. The one we had was almost new, the change is not understood”, the mayor explained Juan Carlos Montesino.
The communal chief made himself available to the families affected by the unexpected meteorological phenomenon and even went to the hospital where the injured were to verify their condition following the whirlwind passed.
“It didn’t last long, but there was nothing left on the stands”
One of the wounds was identified as Ana María Parada, who was at a fried cake stand at the event with her granddaughter. The portal NQN News He later said that a while later they were discharged.
“It was a couple of seconds, but there was nothing left for the people who were in the stands”said one of the attendees, present at the time of the intense gusts. “Tornado tail”: the mayor of Miramar spoke of the phenomenon that killed two people and destroyed the bus terminal
“Many people lost all their products, like a lady from Mendoza who sold hats and espadrilles and everything blew up. The rest of the town was not affected,” another assistant told LMNeuquén.
A few hours following the suspension of the meeting, the local authorities issued an official statement in which they detailed: “The government of the municipality of Taquimilán accompanies the families that were affected by the meteorological phenomenon which unfortunately today specifically affected where the festival of the singer and the peasant woman organized by the La Viciera association was taking place.
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