Tuesday 13 November 2007

Villahermosa floods

My hometown is Villahermosa in Tabasco, Mexico. It means "beautiful village" and it certainly is.
Well, the last 2 weeks, my city has lived the worst nightmare we can remember.
There was a massive flooding in the city due to heavy reains and bad management of a hydroelectric dam nearby.
There haven't been many casualties, in fact the government claims there are zero, but the material losses of homes and businesses are beyond calculation.
The city centre is destroyed and many people have lost everything, furniture, clothes, documents..
The water level is going down but the smell of death animals, rubbish and drainage is unbearable.
The house where my family lives was unaffected but my city is rebuilding it self.

No comments: