Minutes after 5:30 p.m. this Tuesday, an intense storm front hit the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA). Despite the rapid formation of storms, intense showers, hail and strong gusts, the National Meteorological Service (SMN) maintained that: “There is no alert. They are not severe. They were predicted,” they declared to La Nación.
Floods in the suburbs after the storm.
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While SMN official Cindy Fernández described an insignificant phenomenon (“slight, momentary and sectorized drop in temperatures”), the reality on the streets and in the neighborhoods was different. Images of leaks and flooding in the Unicenter shopping center circulated on social networks, but it is just the tip of the iceberg of a problem that is becoming more dramatic in popular neighborhoods. There, every heavy rain means flooded streets, flooded homes and material losses for working families, a drama that the ruling party and the opposition never echo.
Just as it is happening again in The Palomar, as this post describes Instagram:
Parties with instability and alert for the impoverished north
The forecast indicates that this instability, far from being an isolated episode, will extend during December 24, with a high probability of new intense rains and winds. The SMN issued a short-term warning for strong storms, while for the north of the country (Catamarca, Tucumán, Santiago del Estero, Jujuy and Salta) a yellow alert is in effect for storms estimated between 30 and 60 mm.
This phenomenon develops in the context of a sweltering day, with temperatures above 30°C and extreme humidity, a combination that is increasingly frequent and intense due to the global climate crisis, driven by the extractivist and predatory model of capitalists.
While large corporations pollute and devastate, it is the popular sectors who suffer the consequences of these extreme events.
Heat, floods and lack of public works
The forecast for the next few days anticipates a slight thermal relief for Christmas, followed by a rapid return to maximum temperatures above 30°C. This climatic roller coaster, with a persistent risk of downpours, makes life even more difficult in neighborhoods where the heat is unbearable and the rains are a threat.
Once again, it is revealed that meteorological “unforeseen events” are foreseeable in their unequal effects. The shopping malls of the upper classes can suffer leaks, but they are quickly repaired. On the other hand, the lack of real infrastructure works in the humble neighborhoods, the collapsed drainage and the chronic housing emergency condemn thousands to suffer each storm due to the adjustment policies of all governments, Peronists, radicals, macristas and now libertarians.
In each event like this, the lack of infrastructure works, the consequences of the lack of investments, are once again exposed. That is why we must demand: infrastructure works under worker and popular controlr; urban planning at the service of the majority and urgent measures against climate change, which must be financed by those who pollute the most and earn the most: the large economic groups.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
