Most affected areas by the rough weather in the City of Buenos Aires

In the early morning of April, 2^nd, between 12am and 7am, around 155 millimetres of water fell non-stop over the City of Buenos Aires, La Plata and the surroundings. This great amount of water caused damages, flooding and even deaths.

According to the news, in the City of Buenos Aires there were 8 people who lost their lives. In La Plata, it had been estimated that the number have reached to 51.

According to the media, the most affected areas during the big storm was Barrio Mitre (in the neighbourhood of Saavedra), although a great part of the neighbourhood of Belgrano also suffered a lot due to the floods. Likewise, other neighrbohoods like Caballito, Parque Chacabuco, Villa Ortúzar, Villa Pueyrredón, Villa Soldati, Villa Lugano and Mataderos flooded and the water reached really high levels. Many people had to be moved from their houses because they have flooded, and so it was done to prevent any deaths. This type of weather may be fatal, especially for those people who are in the street at the time. Imagine that if the torrent produced by the rain moved cars, it can easily move people.

After the storm and the flooding, once the water started to go down, many people around the city of Buenos Aires found pilled cars and branches fallen on the streets, together with a power cut (some done on purpose to prevent problems, and others because of broken engines), and many houses with their sofas on the kitchen.

Many organizations, people and the government started helping all those people who have had problems due to the great storm.

According to the Observatory in Villa Ortuzar, the amount of rain that fell -155mm- broke the history record (in the month of April). The previous record during the month of April was in 1989, when 142mm of water fell. Still, the greater amount of infrastructure in the whole City of Buenos Aires and the surroundings have probably affected and increased the chances of flooding and damages.

The storm has affected many people and many neighbourhoods of the City of Buenos Aires, and other localities of Buenos Aires (La Plata was deeply affected). Thanks to the help of many neighbours, NGOs and the government, things are slowly going back to normal, and solutions are being given.