The Civil Protection Secretariat of Chiapas, a state in southern Mexico, reported this Wednesday of the preventive evacuation of 400 families due to the entry of tropical depression Once-Ewhich in the next few hours could become Tropical Storm Kristy in the Pacific.
Luis Manuel García Moreno, Secretary of Civil Protection, detailed in a conference that The communities where there are preventive actions are in the lower area of the municipality of Arriaga: Pesquería la Gloria, Pesquería la Línea, Zapata and Pesquería el Pleito.
While in the municipality of Tonalá they maintain an alert in Puerto Arista and Paredón.
“It is intended to take (the population) to the highest area of Arriaga.” The fishermen have decided to stay in place. However, women, children, elderly people with health complications have decided to evacuate,” the official said.
The tropical depression was, in the latest report from the National Meteorological Service, 115 kilometers south-southeast of Puerto Ángel and 120 kilometers south of Bahías de Huatulco, both in the state of Oaxaca, neighboring Chiapas.
The forecast trajectory indicates that on Wednesday afternoon it would strengthen into a tropical storm, which would be named Kristy, and on Friday it would make landfall in Oaxaca.
The Civil Protection official stated that the rainy season will last two days, so there is a yellow alert for the regions of Istmo Costa, Frailesca and Soconusco, although so far no public services have been suspended.
It also reported that the Angostura dam is 52.36% full, Chicoasén 84.2%, Malpaso 45.07% and Peñitas 78.59%.
While the Suchiate River, which divides Mexico from Guatemala, is at 90% of its capacity.
Given the possibility of overflows, the authorities asked citizens to inform themselves through the media and pay attention to the recommendations in the face of this rain storm that could last 48 hours in Chiapas.
This cyclone would hit southern Mexicowhile the region has not yet recovered from Hurricane John, which hit as a category 3 hurricane, with a maximum of 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale, on September 23 and has left an estimated 29 dead in the states of Guerrero, Oaxaca and Michoacán.
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