La Paz Newspaper Marty report front page Sept. 23 says.....
Here is a VERY ROUGH machine tranlation from the El Sudcaliforniano newspaper on 9/23/03:
Here is the original link: El Sudcaliforniano
BCS, incomunicado, without water neither electricity
Two dead persons and two disappeared persons, urban central and rural communities incomunicados by the partial destruction of the network highway,
near thousand dwellings devastated, the for time indefinite suspension of the drinkable services of water and electric energy in The Peace and The
Tips and scores of sunken embarkations, is the preliminary balance of the impact of the hurricane ?Marty? in Low California South, where still remain
in shelters moreThousand persons that went evacuees of zones of high risk since the afternoon of on sunday.
The governor Leonel Elevation Monta?o confirmed at night the visit this Tuesday of the president Vicente Fox to evaluate the damages and to agree the
first actions of reconstruction, in the meantime the Office of the secretary of Health decreed sanitary emergency in the five municipalities of the
company before the massive threat of bud of fever, paludismo, conjuntivitis and gastrointestinal illnesses and of the skin.
Low California South recovered barely of the affectation of the hurricane ?Ignacio?, which whipped this region among 23 and August 28, leaving damages
reckoned by the Office of the secretary of Government in 210 million pesos. The rains you caused by ?Marty? are historic, only comparable with the
ones that brought with himself the cyclone ?Fray? in October of 1976 and over those of the hurricane ?Juliette? in September of 2001.
The deceases confirmed up to now went in The Peace and The Tips, where kill you tried them to cross streams to arrive at the shelters installed by the
Mexican Army and the Armed one of Mexico in 16 plant educational.
Likewise, the Direction of Security and Traffic of the Municipality of The Peace reported the disappearance of two persons in the community of The
Pocitas, a hundred kilometers to the north of this capital, of where information of the presence of a corpse was received trapped among electric
cables of energy.
The municipal presidents of The Peace and The Tips, V?ctor Manuel Guluarte Neuter and Ulysses Omar Cece?a Monta?o, they brought to light for separated
that ?Marty? left out of service the 48 wells that supply of water both jurisdictions, which concentrate to the 70 percent of the total population.
In turn the Federal Commission of Electricity announced the gradual re-establishment in the next hours of the electric service of energy in the
capital of the state and Tip San Lucas.
To the step of the hurricane "Marty" the network highway of Low California South remained partially destroyed, incomunicando upon being by terrestrial
way; in the meantime, the airports of this capital, Loreto and San Jos? are maintained closed, the same as the ports and San Lucas, where the
conditions of swell have done impossible to reopen the navigation.
The Office of the secretary of Communications and Transportations, as well as the port headquarters holders, Preventive Federal Police and airport
administrations, they confirmed the closings and evil state of the network highway.
Exactly the ways of communication of the state went the areas that registered greater damages in its infrastructure. Since the night of on sunday is
maintained closed the step among The Peace and The Tips, where cave-ins, deslaves and streams interrupt the traffic and incomunican of the all to the
rural populations.
Again the five municipalities of the state are found in sanitary emergency, and after the step of "Marty", just as happened with "Ignacio" from today
the sale of food in the streets remains prohibited to new notice. In the meantime, the new program is prepared of breaks down and fumigation against
the transmitting mosquito of the fever, that returns to be a risk.
The secretary of Health in the state, Ra?l Eduardo Rodriguez Pulido, reported in meeting of the Civil Counsel of Protection that will be necessary to
implement again the measures against the illnesses that would be able to untie after the last rains, as the fever, paludismo, conjuntivitis and
gastrointestinal illnesses.
Loreto, seriously damaged by the hurricane
Incalculables went the damages that caused in the city of Loreto the hurricane ?Marty? during its step, the day of yesterday, emphasizing inside the
havocs the disappearance in 80 percent of the navy of this port, hundreds of trees fallen, ceilings torn of its walls, total destruction of the jetty
and dwellings severely damaged.
From the 5 of the morning and during eight hours Loreto and its outskirts received an intense rain surrounded by strong winds, that caused the highest
rain registrations of haste of the last years.
The municipal president of Loreto, Homero Davis Neuter, instructed to all their officials so that "immediately and without being stopped" a recount of
the damages be carried out and, besides, the main urgencies in matter of health they be detected, dwelling, electric energy and drinkable water.
The navy of this port remained totally destroyed, after the strong surf, that reached the four meters of height, caused its total cave-in and the
sinking of two embarkations type panga that were not removed for its owners. This space, that harbored to hundreds of launches, finally will have to
be reconstructed.
Likewise, the stream Loreto, that separates to this city of the colony Zaragoza, managed to accumulate a quantity of water that many years ago himself
was not observed, which generated serious desgarramientos of land and, besides, caused the warning of authorities and neighboring of this zone before
the possible overflow by some of its lower points. Set against the stadium of beisbol, the court remained without roof on account of the strong
winds.
Similarly, by the streets a great number of business they lost luminous announcements or, in some cases, floods that caused the loss of merchandise.
The Preventive Federal Police maintained a strong operating one and asks the conductors to be abstained to leave to highway, since there is not step
toward none of the neighboring cities.
In turn, the representative of the Office of the secretary of Health, doctor ?scar Green Davis, he explained that from yesterday same they began to
take measures to suspend the sale of food in the public way and, besides initiating strong actions against the typical proliferation of illnesses of
these circumstances, especially the fever.
All the schools suspended activities the day from yesterday because of the rains in this city since the first hours of the early morning, seeking with
it to guarantee the security of the students of the different levels.
The professor Francisco Blond Romero, regular of the regional office of services of the SEP in Loreto, explained that besides the majority of the
educational institutions went paymasters as shelters to respond in an efficient way in case to be necessary.
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