Drifting cars and flooded houses: shocking videos of the intense rains in Santiago, Chile

The latter Saturday January 31the capital of Chile went through heavy rainfall and strong hail events. Among the dramatic images spread on social networks, dozens of vehicles were observed carried away by water in flooded streets.

The cause of such flooding is because In less than an hour a total of 17 millimeters of rain fellreported Red Geoscientifica de Chile.

The most affected place was Maipú communelocated in the Santiago Metropolitan Region. Specifically, the road to Melipilla and surrounding neighborhoods, as well as the El Abrazo sector.

However, the authorities spoke of a widespread event and They compared the damage to that of a fire. The water entered the homes and the belongings of many people were destroyed.

At the same time, in the aforementioned region there are more than 13 thousand homes without poweraccording to the Superintendency of Electricity and Fuels (SEC). Among the communes with the highest number of users without electricity are Puente Alto, San Bernardo, Melipilla, and Padre Hurtado.

Alarms ringing and cars washed away

He segregated leave system that impacted this last weekend in the Latin American capital left dozens of vehicles trapped in the water. Little more than their roof could be seen, while their wheels and the lower part of the doors were completely submerged.

One person came to record the devastating wind that passed through the block of his house. There you can see how the leaves of the trees move with an unusual force. In other images, cars were seen moving through the water, and some crashed into each other while alarms sounded.

More repercussions were shared by the affected neighbors themselves, who on their social networks asked for expeditious action by the authorities. Some even left the location they were in.

“We need help on El Conquistador Avenue with Diego Barros Ortiz, please. The water has already entered the homes and although it stopped raining, it doesn’t stop going up«, noted the account of X Gabriele Cristina.

The water that entered homes and families who “lost everything”

The authorities did not take long to rule on the natural phenomenon that put the capital’s residents in suspense. The latter February 1he mayor of MaipúTomás Vodanovic, referred to the event, which especially affected his commune.

The politician assured that “There are families who lost everything”. For this reason, he declared the need for “a package of measures” by the State, which provides not only material help to the affected people, but also structural solutions to such a problem.

«Have a climate phenomenon that we had never experienced and that generates consequences that we had not experienced as municipal management either,” Vodanovic told the local press.

Immediately afterwards he portrayed the experience of the victims of the flood, who They went from “surprise and laughter” to “seeing their house completely flooded.” and destroyed.”

The mayor ruled out that these were isolated damages. “They are not some homes that suffered damage, they are entire neighborhoods, which Basically a wave hit them and everything flooded.«, he exemplified. Likewise, He compared what happened with the devastation in fireswhich can cover “an entire sector of a commune.”