TAP WATER ABOUT TRAGEDY JIMANI

On Sunday afternoon, May 23, 2004, it rained in the city timidly Jimani, the rainfall reached the height only 10 mm, normal values ​​of tropical downpours during this period of convective activity, however, between eight p.m. Sunday and eight Monday morning over 220 mm accumulated extremely high value that gives us some indication of hydrometeorological event had been planned in the upper part of the Sierra de Bahoruco and already for that morning Monday may 24, had produced a withering grown over the town of Jimani with a lot of silt, stones and tree trunks and the loss of hundreds of human beings, destruction of homes, disruption of basic services and infrastructure vial.

I remember that day it rained much looked as if God opened the keys of the heavens and I was 14 years old at that time I did not preocuba excess rain and I was happy bathing in it, I remember in the early morning thunder began were some thunder trembled the house to be exact thunder were 5 that made the house shake, I lived in a high rise Jimani they call the hill is a high district was the only district where the river water no passage; after the fifth thunder the voice of my cousin NORKITA between fear and tears cried my mother, "AUUUUUNT" was heard to hear we did not realize what was happening but we care to get the saw to her and asu husband in a motor with her three children who were alcansados ​​by water, that morning we went to meet even rained much look at the water and the anguish of my cousin and her family, "We never imagined what had happened" and that the district's "40" had disappeared until amancio and saw the bodies of our family friends and good neighbors, without lying lives on the ground, houses torn from their bodies roots children lives without the strongest memory I have is when the water disappeared in his all that went to the neighborhood to see what had happened to remember seeing a child but still breathing like a fish out of water when someone gave him mouth to mouth breathing but whatever his stay small and fragile body lifeless.

live those moments the river was very painful part of my life and the people in my village forever .....

 

KNOW THAT WATER IS LIFE AND THAT IS ALL YOU NEED TO LIVE, BUT COULD BE WATER tabi TRAGEDY, DEATH, AND REMOVE THE HUMAN FACE OF THE EARTH AND WE CAN NOT reclaim THE REASONS WHY?