Saturday, March 24, 2012

Flooding in Ecuador '12

Ecuador is a small country that is right at the equator and west of Brazil.

I lived in the city of Guayaquil  for roughly 7 years with my family, and today after reading a headline about serious flooding, I had memories of me navigating through flooding roads in 1998.  The flood I saw caught me by surprise, I promised myself that I would find a way to track the weather so that myself and my family would not be caught unprepared for strong storms.  Now fourteen years later, I read a storm from a online weather new source, the exact area I used to live in and other parts of Ecuador is seeing terrible life threatening weather and the news is reporting about twenty people have died.   However I learned that this part of the country does see regular flooding, just that it was worsened by the effects of El Niño and La Niña.

Here is a video from another area in Ecuador, this is a small town far from the major cities.




2 comments:

  1. Thats a real shame...Many of those people didn't have much to begin with..

    I'm surprised that since flooding is fairly common in that region ..more of the homes aren't elevated.

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  2. That is exactly the problem, they are poor and between not having economic means to make a storm ready home, they also lack the communication of incoming storms. When I lived there, they rarely spoke about the weather on the news and that was living near a large city.

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