“The never-ending story” is what the residents of Culturas de México and Jacalones Segunda Sección, in the municipality of Chalco, Estado de Mexico, call the worst tragedy that has occurred in that area since August 2, when a storm flooded several neighborhoods and the emergency is not over for them yet.
On Sunday, October 6th, the waters flooded several streets again, although the two relief sumps that the authorities built a few days ago are already in operation because it rained in other neighborhoods of Chalco and in municipalities in the region of the Iztaccíhuatl and Popocatépetl volcanoes that discharge their wastewater into that area of the metropolis.
According to the Decentralized Agency for Drinking Water, Sewerage and Sanitation (ODAPAS), this time it did not rain as hard in ground zero as on other occasions, but the situation was complicated by the fact that it did rain in the region.
Several families who had already returned to their homes because they thought the critical part of the contingency was over, which began on August 2, had to leave their homes again because the liquid entered their properties.
“It’s incredible what happens here, whether it rains or not, we get flooded. We are desperate, I lost my very expensive machines and I can’t repair them because the workshop has to be dry, and since we are always flooded, I haven’t been able to and we’ve been like this for more than two months,” said the owner of an industrial lathe, located on Tarascos Street, in the Culturas de México neighborhood.
By Monday, October 7th, the vicinity of the Culturas de México market to Solidaridad Avenue, which divides it from the Jacalones Segunda Sección neighborhood, was flooded. In some places the water level was 25 centimeters, in others, it was more than 30 centimeters, and in the lowest part, it was more than half a meter, according to the measurements made by personnel of the city council, state, and federal government that remains in the area.
“Yesterday in my house the water rose to 80 centimeters, that’s why we left and had to go to my mother’s house, who lives in the center of Chalco because we couldn’t spend the night like that, it was impossible to sleep in those conditions,” said Sergio, one of the residents of Culturas de México.
Because of the streets that were flooded in that community since Sunday night, Enrique’s grandson did not go to school again, as happened the previous Monday, when they also woke up with the water level above the sidewalks.
The people who live in that area of the municipality are exhausted and feel desolate and disappointed, because, although they see that the authorities are doing work to remedy the contingency, they cannot live their normal lives.
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