It’s a sudden inundation…
it’s a flood caused by strong rain.
And these heavy rainfalls usually happen between fall and winter.
Causing mudslides,
landslides…
The mighty water keeps on gaining bigger straight...
in a mixture of water, mud and rocks.
And then it starts affecting people,
destroying houses,
various properties.
Kills.
There have been a lot of deadly floods…
The most dramatic one happened in 1803.
9th October 1803... occurred all over the island.
600 people died.
Consider that we are talking about a population of around 30 000 inhabitants,
600 deaths is an absolutely dramatic disaster.
We can lose everything we earned in just a matter of seconds,
due to fires.
So, there is a binomial here.
Two synergetic aspects... very complicated.
On one hand, the floods,
representing a consequence,
and on the other hand, fires.
Contrasting warmer summers and dryer,
we will have winters with fewer rain but the levels of precipitation tend to be much dense.
To reduce impetuosity, the destructive effects of floods,
it is necessary to come up here (mountains) and reforest the primitive flora.
Mainly scrub and tree vegetation.
This flora will lock the rocks
preventing vertiginous amounts of water to keep on rushing down
until the downtown area.
Activities like these that we are doing here,
need to be severely multiplied.
