A week of heavy rain in Mexico has finally proved its worth. All over Mexico cities are being evacuated because the rivers that border them have over flown due to the torrential rainfall. In fifty years this is one of the worst natural disasters that Mexico has seen. Seventy percent of the Gulf state of Tabasco is underwater along with eighty percent of the capital city Villahermosa. Many public services have been shut down including transportation and the cities drinking water. The rain stopped on Thursday but it is predicted that more rainfall is in the future endangering the people even more. Heavy rainfall is not related to the Tropical Storm Noel in the Caribbean. Villahermosa’s river, the Grijalva has risen six and a half feet about its CRTICAL point before it gushed into the city and other rivers are continuing to rise. People have been taken off of rooftops and many such rescue efforts are similar to the rescue efforts of the military when Katrina hit the US. As of Thursday 300,000 people were still in need of rescuing from Villahermosa alone. 100,000 missing in Tabasco. Fellow Mexicans were asked to donate any food that would be useful to the people affected by the floods.
This is so sad that natural disasters have to happen. People are killed purely out of accident but some one will eventually be blamed for not being able to keep citizens safe. Most likely the president of the state. You just can’t stop the river from overflowing its banks. It is just the due process of life. Hopefully the military aid these people are receiving will be substantial enough to rescue a vast majority of those that have been stranded by the floods. The forces have been working hard already to rescue those that are already stationed in the shelters, hopefully they will be able to keep saving lives at a quick pace before the rain hits again and starts the flooding over!
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