Some 1,500 affected families, around 70 overflowing rivers and more than 2,000 damaged homes were left by Hurricane Julia as it passed through Nicaragua on Sunday.
Julia entered the continental territory as a category 1 hurricane, with winds of 140 km/h, and left it this Sunday afternoon as a tropical storm, with winds of 85 km/h.
The preliminary figures were provided on Sunday night by Vice President Rosario Murillo, who indicated that so far no victims had been reported due to the passage of Julia.
However, in the country a red alert was decreed from noon on Sunday, the maximum there is in terms of natural phenomena to attend to emergency situations.
Classes were suspended for this Monday by the Ministry of Education until further notice and the authorities began to make a total count of infrastructure damage and plan to give a report during the day.
In the North and South Caribbean of Nicaragua, communication was lost for almost a day as a result of the natural phenomenon.
In Laguna de Perlas, which is where Hurricane Julia entered, government spokeswoman Rosario Murillo assured that they had not yet been able to communicate with the corresponding authorities to “specify” the damage.
In a preliminary way, Murillo also reported that there are damages to at least 49 education centers in different departments.
Sinapred alert.
For its part, the National System for Disaster Prevention, Mitigation and Attention (Sinapred) recommended that people take certain precautionary measures “because the rains can cause flooding and landslides.”
“We also believe that the winds are going to be present and, although they are not going to have the magnitude of when the event entered the country, we do have to give it a lot of importance,” Sinapred minister Guillermo González told official media.
González also pointed out that the preparation of almost 600 shelters was achieved and more than 13,000 people were evacuated, representing more than 2,000 families from the areas of the Miskito Keys, Pearl Keys, North Caribbean coast.
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