Bahía Blanca enfrenta una devastadora inundación que ha dejado a muchas familias sin hogar y con pérdidas materiales significativas. El barrio Pacífico es uno de los más afectados, con casas completamente destruidas por el desborde del arroyo Napostá. Los residentes, como Lilian, luchan por reconstruir sus vidas mientras enfrentan desafíos de salud y la pérdida de pertenencias acumuladas durante años. En medio de la tragedia, la comunidad se une para brindar ayuda solidaria, con donaciones que llegan desde diferentes partes del país.
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00:00Quickly with Leo Godoy, who is in the Pacific neighborhood. This is Bahia Blanca, one of the most affected places.
00:06Hello Leo, how are you? Good morning.
00:08Good morning. Well, here we are, the day after the tragedy, which is also a continuity of this catastrophe.
00:20Because now comes all this part, what you are seeing.
00:23This is a house that had all these furniture inside, which took many years to have all this, but the passage of water destroyed everything.
00:33Look how this house ended up, where there was no dry mattress, where there was no bed standing, where there was no light table, the TV table.
00:44Everything totally destroyed, even the pillow of the pet, look how it is, full of mud.
00:53Well, all this is a house that was literally empty, and so each of the streets that you are going to walk in this neighborhood, Pacific neighborhood.
01:03Now there is a lot of wind. Here in a block is the Napostá stream, which is the stream that overflowed due to the amount of water that fell.
01:15Well, in that, it was here just a block, that bridge that you see in the background is cut, there are six bridges that it has along this stream, which were destroyed.
01:27Only two were left standing that allow the city to be united, if not the city was totally separated into two parts, where it was impossible to cross from one side to the other.
01:37But look, look, the sidewalks are this, the houses are empty. I'm going to show you, let's see if we can enter one of the houses, Sergio.
01:48Look Sergio, for 1.70, 1.80, more or less, the water level was in these places.
01:55Is there light now? Did they recover the light?
01:58Still in this area, I think not, look. Here I am going to show you so that the height of the water will be very clear, and how people were saved by chance.
02:10Up to this height, Sergio, look, here is the door, I'm going to stop at the door, so I'm afraid of 1.73, I here, if I didn't grab something, I would end up drowning, because it covers you.
02:22And how did those people get out? Did they go to the ceilings?
02:25Look, these people still couldn't come back, they went to the ceilings, let's go to Lilian's house, which is a family that was also saved because they could go to the ceiling.
02:37Well, here are all their things, they built it during all the years, the house of all life.
02:42Let's see, I'm going to enter.
02:43What do you see there among what is thrown down?
02:45Everything that is thrown down, everything that serves us, right?
02:47What do you see? TV, mattresses, table, what do you see?
02:51Everything, everything, look, the Lula table, the TV table, the clothes, everything got wet, nothing was left here, nothing.
03:00You are going to see, from what was stored in the bottom, table, look, they had, I don't know, something so that the grandchildren could play when they came.
03:10Everything is still wet, soaked, the benches, look, this bench destroyed by the step, look, look at the mud.
03:17It's starting again, right?
03:18It got everywhere.
03:19Let's say all those destructions.
03:21It starts from scratch.
03:22Of course, because you, that two meters of water you had there, it's not that it stays in the door.
03:26Those two meters of water entered the house.
03:29And it took a long time to get out.
03:30Here, look, here is Lilian.
03:32Here she raised the door, the bathroom doors.
03:35When they entered here, they found that the door was crossed above the furniture, because it was all destroyed.
03:42Lilian, how are you? Good morning, we are with advice.
03:45Good morning, it's a saying.
03:46Yes, what to tell you, right?
03:48It's very sad, everything we are living, two retirees.
03:53We have, thank God, the children, but hey, each one with his life and they helped us a lot.
03:58We were able to clean, but we lost everything, everything.
04:01I have an oncological medication, I have leukemia.
04:06And you have to keep fighting, I've been fighting for eight years.
04:09And now with this, yes, look at them.
04:12How to have the arms.
04:13To misery.
04:14Lilian, tell me, look, I ask you to show us so that people can graph what it was,
04:21the drama of what you had to live.
04:23You were inside your house.
04:25I was inside the house, we were with the 91-year-old neighbor drinking tea,
04:30who had made it, and suddenly we started to see the water.
04:37The water got through the window, folded the door, threw doors out, refrigerator, everything threw.
04:44And we got to the subway, and well, the neighbors rescued us with stairs.
04:49At 1.50 meters, right?
04:50At 1.50 meters, of course, up to the neck.
04:52Up to the neck.
04:54And well, we went down the stairs, we were able to open that door,
04:58but when we opened that door, the neighbor had to get us up because we couldn't get out.
05:05So they got us up and we went this way.
05:08Let's see, look, we're going around, Sergio.
05:11Look at the corridor, and while we go around, now look, up to here,
05:17where did it get to, look, look, here is the mark.
05:21Let's see, Lidia, I ask you to put the cover.
05:24Up to here was the water, and up to there, it went up higher.
05:29How long did the water go up?
05:31Well, we went up a staircase.
05:33How long did it go up?
05:35How long did it go up?
05:36Seconds, seconds.
05:38In seconds, everything came down.
05:40It's incredible.
05:41We went up the stairs, from the stairs we went to the roof, and there we were.
05:45Let's see, excuse me.
05:46Leo, while you walk with her, did you see the camera that spread in the last few hours in America 24 too?
05:53I think it takes, temporarily, an hour.
05:56Yes, yes, now we are going to show it, now we are going to show it.
05:58So imagine that you don't even realize it.
06:01Imagine in seconds, as Lilian describes, right?
06:04And, in fact, you couldn't save anything, right?
06:07Because you said the fridge, the big appliances.
06:10No, of course.
06:11They are very difficult things to replace, very expensive.
06:13No.
06:14Well, we went up the stairs and we stayed there from 10 in the morning to a staircase,
06:19through the wall, and we stayed there until 10 in the morning, up to the roof.
06:24From 10 in the morning until 7 in the afternoon.
06:27From 10 in the morning until 7 in the afternoon.
06:29Nine hours.
06:30No, no, tremendous.
06:31That is, nine hours.
06:32And how did you go down?
06:33We put some sheets to not get wet and what we took care of more than the grandmother.
06:37Because it was still raining, of course.
06:39That she had no idea what was happening, that is, she didn't realize much because she was old.
06:47So you were with your husband and with the grandmother?
06:51A neighbor of a lifetime.
06:53So you two were there?
06:55The two of us, with the grandmother.
06:57And what did you do with the grandmother?
06:59We took the grandmother up.
07:01The neighbors took her up.
07:03No, no, it's something ...
07:04Either you went up or you drowned.
07:06Or you drowned.
07:07You didn't have a boat at that time.
07:09Either you took more strength and went up or the water drowned you.
07:13Because I calculate that 10 minutes ...
07:15Did you get strength from where you didn't have anything to be able to get up?
07:17I don't know, I don't know.
07:18You have to go up a house, you have to climb a house.
07:20Honestly, it's something I've never seen.
07:21I have a video when we just arrived, then we were able to open.
07:26Yes, I hear you.
07:27Last year, let's remember a little more than last year.
07:30In December of 23, Bahía had also been affected by a hurricane, very complicated.
07:36They were also affected because many people are starting again a year after they had already done the same.
07:44Sure, last year there was a hurricane.
07:46Last year the wind.
07:48In 2016.
07:49And how was it in that year?
07:51Well, well, well.
07:52At that time we had no problems at all.
07:54I think the wind, that hurricane of the wind, was something bad for many people.
08:01But not in this area.
08:03I mean, I think the wind is more manageable out there.
08:06Of course, of course.
08:07The water, the water.
08:08The water, the water, in two seconds it invades everything.
08:11It covers everything.
08:13You can't stop it.
08:14You, the wind, you get under something and well, you try to suffocate or something.
08:21The water doesn't give you time for anything.
08:23Leo, wait a second.
08:25Wait a second.
08:26We'll be right back with you from the Pacific neighborhood.
08:28Because we have one last news.
08:30That we are about to tell you here in our club.
08:33We are going to say hello to Andrés, the father of Abril.
08:35Abril was one of the missing people and has just been found.
08:39Hello Andrés, how are you?
08:40Sergio Lapego is my name.
08:41Good morning.
08:42Hello, how are you?
08:43Fine, fine.
08:44All good, all good.
08:45Luckily.
08:46Thank God.
08:47All good.
08:48How lucky.
08:49Tell me where your daughter was.
08:50And how, let's say, when does she lose communication?
08:53She lives there, well, in Bahía Blanca.
08:56We are from Puerto Madryn.
08:59She is already studying at the university.
09:01She was on her way there in Agustín Álvarez and Caselíper Cooperativa.
09:05Right next to the Canal del Maldito.
09:07Sure.
09:08She caught her in the middle of the storm.
09:10She was coming with her partner.
09:12Her partner manages to cross the canal, but he can't come back.
09:15Were they walking?
09:16They were walking.
09:17They can't come back.
09:18They can't come back.
09:19They were going to their house, which is 100 meters from the Maldonado Canal,
09:24where the water overflowed completely.
09:27The truth is that it was a ...
09:29Look, I feel bad.
09:31The truth is that I feel very ...
09:32Yes, tell me.
09:33I feel very bad, you know?
09:35Nothing, she ...
09:37The couple crossed, she couldn't cross.
09:40The only thing her partner sees is that the water drags her,
09:45she grabs my daughter from a pipe, loses a shoe.
09:48And the truth is that I don't know who the man is.
09:51The truth is that I thank him.
09:52For me, I am grateful to that person.
09:54From here to eternity.
09:56There are heroes, right?
09:57Because a person just manages to grab her from behind the shirt
10:01and lifts her up the sidewalk.
10:03Look.
10:04And what happened to the couple?
10:06With your daughter's partner?
10:07My daughter's partner was on the other side of the canal,
10:10but a neighbor also took refuge in her.
10:12Ah.
10:13That is, both were saved.
10:14But you, you had two days without knowing where your daughter was.
10:17Exactly.
10:18I didn't know anything.
10:19I didn't know anything until I found out,
10:21because they communicated between neighbors, shouting,
10:25because there was no signal, shouting.
10:27And there they could go with my daughter.
10:29She told you, let my dad know that I'm fine.
10:31Sure, sure.
10:32Now, Andrés, you say that this neighbor rescued her,
10:34grabbed her from the back of the shirt, rescued her.
10:37And then what happened to her and the neighbor?
10:39Because they were in the middle of the storm.
10:41No, he had his house there.
10:43He was able to put her in his house.
10:44Ah.
10:45He protected her, gave her a towel.
10:47And the truth is that this neighbor does nothing
10:50because I'm still working in Olavarría.
10:53My wife lives in Puerto Madryn.
10:55Actually, we live in Puerto Madryn.
10:57And she's there.
10:58And now my daughter, luckily, is fine.
11:01And her grandmother went to look for her and is in general with her.
11:04Well, what a blessing that is for you.
11:06But what suffering these two days,
11:08which are surely going to be days that you will never be able to forget, right?
11:12The truth is that yes.
11:13Look, the first thing I want to thank that person,
11:16I don't know what his name is, really,
11:18but the truth is that he gave me back my life.
11:20In what neighborhood was it? Tell me.
11:22Look, Agustín Álvarez Street and 1st of March.
11:25Well, repeat, the street, the war.
11:28Agustín Álvarez.
11:29Agustín Álvarez and 1st of March.
11:31Yes, 1st of March, there, half a block from the hyper cooperative.
11:34Well, let's try to be the bridge of union
11:37or at least of greeting of you two.
11:39Surely the man may be, let's hope they have,
11:42I don't know, they must have light now, I imagine, in that place, right?
11:46We'll see how many people he saved.
11:48And how many people he saved, exactly, right?
11:50The truth is that, well, that, and nothing,
11:52my daughter later went to the second day, she could go, I communicated,
11:55thank God, and nothing, she went to her house and nothing,
11:58a meter of water, all her things.
12:00She cried, anguished.
12:02I told her that, look, this is how it is,
12:05the material, it's hard to lose it,
12:07but for me, my daughter's life is the most important thing.
12:10Without a doubt.
12:11That everything is lost, I don't care, I told my daughter.
12:13My car stayed there because I didn't bring it,
12:15and it's covered in water, now it went down,
12:17but it was completely covered, but nothing,
12:20I was not interested in anything,
12:22I was only interested in my daughter being well.
12:24The material, the material can be recovered.
12:26Exactly.
12:27Do you want to ask something, May?
12:29Yes, Andres, this is not talked about much,
12:31but people in this context enter in a state of shock,
12:34it's a traumatic situation, how is she?
12:37Well, I talked to her,
12:39she is already in her grandmother's house,
12:41already contained,
12:43yes, she wakes up,
12:45she says she hears the noise of the water,
12:47she makes her cry.
12:49Shock, traumatic stress.
12:50Yes, shock, yes, yes, yes,
12:52well, but nothing, luckily we already have a family,
12:55my grandmother is a nurse,
12:57my wife is a nurse,
12:59people who contain her can guide her to contain her.
13:03Andres, we send you a big affectionate hug,
13:06you will be able to meet your daughter again,
13:08you will be able to hug,
13:10and that hug will be endless, without a doubt.
13:12We send you blessings from here, from America.
13:15I think what I want to emphasize is, please,
13:17my total gratitude to that person.
13:19Yes, I hope we can find her.
13:21Exactly, I think in a week I will be going there,
13:24a week and a half,
13:25and nothing, I will try to locate her.
13:27The truth is that for me ...
13:28It would be beautiful, it would be beautiful if you leave that meeting.
13:31The truth is that ...
13:32We send you a hug, Andres, thank you very much.
13:34We are going with Leo Godoy, who is in that neighborhood.
13:37Leo, you were just talking to this woman,
13:39who has lost everything,
13:41I don't know, about two meters of water.
13:43Yes, we were talking to Lilian,
13:45there we are, there we are coming back,
13:47but look, I'll give you a prior step,
13:49we go back to Lilian's house,
13:51so they were going to contact us right away,
13:53because I think we were going to help her with something.
13:55Look, I want, in this house,
13:57if you see the window,
13:59how far the water got.
14:01The mark, of course.
14:02Yes, there it was well marked.
14:03And the broken glass,
14:04probably because of the pressure of the water.
14:06Because of the pressure of the water, of course.
14:08Of course, this is the ...
14:09Look, there's a ...
14:10Look, they obviously have all the mud here,
14:13all trying to ...
14:14They are all working,
14:16trying to clean up a bit.
14:20There is nothing left, the house is empty,
14:22that is, completely empty.
14:24Look, here they stayed ...
14:26Look, the bottom table disappeared,
14:28the kitchen too.
14:30That is, these people need everything.
14:32Look at the strength of the water, Sergio.
14:34But how many Lilian's are there?
14:36How it doubled.
14:37There are countless Lilian's.
14:38These people.
14:39No.
14:40In fact, we are showing you a house in front of Lilian's,
14:42that is, here,
14:44where you walk ...
14:46You find a house.
14:47Yes, you find this.
14:49Now we are going to Lilian's again,
14:51to show you,
14:52but here is another house that is also empty,
14:54which is this one here.
14:55It's the image, right?
14:56And there too.
14:57Everything on the street, that is, everything ...
14:59Everything outside.
15:00Everything outside, because the house is ...
15:02And what happens now, right?
15:04Because we show the moment,
15:06because from here ...
15:07Do you remember that on Friday we started with this topic,
15:09here we opened this program,
15:10with the issue of flooding.
15:12The two days later, which were tremendous,
15:14the desperate searches,
15:15because there are still people who are missing.
15:17And what happens now, right?
15:18That's why we are going to greet Dr. Elena Ovieta.
15:21She is an infectologist.
15:23Hello doctor, how are you doing?
15:24Good morning to you.
15:26Hello, good morning to you too.
15:28Well, let's say,
15:29what can cause all this dirt,
15:34let's say, what kind of diseases,
15:36how to take care of ourselves, right?
15:38Lilian, excuse me.
15:40First of all,
15:41what I have to manifest is my most personal society,
15:45for all my colleagues in the health sector,
15:48who with the water at their waist
15:49were trying to rescue babies from infection
15:52or critical patients
15:54to be able to move them to another place.
15:57Yes.
15:58So, from the Commission of Social Infectology,
16:02from humans,
16:04our deepest hug and solidarity.
16:10Then, when the water goes down,
16:12the worst comes,
16:13because it is, of course, beyond the shock
16:17of seeing this disaster,
16:19of saying,
16:20I have lost everything.
16:23These are the issues linked to health.
16:27On the one hand,
16:28chronic patients who have lost the remedy to the pressure,
16:33or the remedies to HIV,
16:36or, let's say, so many things.
16:39So, let's not lose,
16:41at least in this context,
16:43the possibility of healthy treatment.
16:46And then, very acute issues
16:49that have to do with the water
16:53and the infections that can be transmitted.
16:56First of all,
16:57what has to do with skin infections,
17:00skin diseases,
17:02contact with toxins,
17:05or bacteria,
17:06or infections.
17:09Doctor,
17:10the communication is being cut off,
17:12and what you are saying is very important,
17:14especially because Lidia is listening to it,
17:15who is one of the affected neighbors.
17:17We will try to improve communication,
17:19and we will get in touch again in a little while,
17:21if you like.
17:22Meanwhile, we are with Leo Godoy,
17:24who is working.
17:25I know you want to listen to it,
17:29Leo, Lidia,
17:30to the doctor,
17:31but it is being cut off.
17:33And he was just talking about the issue of water.
17:35There is no water.
17:36There is no light,
17:37there is no water.
17:38When there is no water,
17:39there is no cleaning.
17:40If there is no cleaning,
17:41of course.
17:43Of all kinds.
17:45In a little while,
17:46Sergio,
17:47in a little while,
17:48the solidarity neighbors
17:49will also be arriving.
17:51The neighbors?
17:52Who are starting to come.
17:54Water bottles.
17:55No,
17:56now it is the water guy
17:58who always brings us potable water,
18:01so well,
18:02he brought us a bottle.
18:03Yesterday,
18:04the neighbors also came to bring us
18:06the urgents and that,
18:07but well,
18:08this is all contamination.
18:09Of course.
18:10Of course.
18:11And with respect to medication, Lidia.
18:13I think they gave you some clothes.
18:16Clothes,
18:17blankets,
18:18sheets,
18:19a mattress of a piece,
18:20so well,
18:21they are helping us.
18:22In a little while,
18:23I think we are going to leave,
18:24but it is something that one...
18:26But there is no refrigerator,
18:27there is no kitchen.
18:28I don't have a refrigerator,
18:29I don't have a kitchen.
18:30There is nothing.
18:31I don't have anything.
18:32There is no light,
18:33there is no light.
18:34We stayed with the opposite
18:35and what is a TV,
18:37refrigerator,
18:38kitchen,
18:39bed,
18:40roof.
18:41Yes,
18:42just as Sergio Lidia.
18:43Lidia,
18:44the doctor was saying something
18:45something very important,
18:47that is,
18:48a lot of people take medication.
18:50The stability of the home is tremendous.
18:52I don't know if you can hear me
18:56I take oncological medication
18:59and I was able to save a box,
19:02which was the one I was taking,
19:04but documents,
19:06everything that she is going to print now.
19:10And for how long will that box last?
19:13We have a problem.
19:14Ah, with the audio.
19:15Sergio, because the return, the orders also come in.
19:20Ah, well, let's improve it.
19:23Ask him how much, let's say, that package that he has left, how long is it in use, let's say?
19:28How long does it need another medication?
19:30I calculate that the medication, the medication, I was doing the tests in PAMI,
19:36and just for, I'm going to have it here for 10 days, but I have medication for 15 more days.
19:4315 more days.
19:44So, well, we'll see what happens later.
19:47It's going to rain.
19:48I'm going to have it again, because without that medication, leukemia progresses more and more.
19:53So, well, unfortunately, one has to fight with one's life and with all this nature.
20:00Well, well, we send you a very big hug from here.
20:03Our, let's say, solidarity aid is going to be starting to arrive now.
20:07There has been a flood of solidarity aid throughout the Argentine Republic.
20:11Every time there is an event like this, the truth is that the Argentines behave as one truly deserves.
20:18Despite the bad examples they give us from above, many times.
20:20And be very attentive too, because there are many alive taking advantage of it.
20:24Now we are going to tell you how it is.
20:26Of course, of course.
20:27There are many people.
20:29No, no, no.
20:38In a little while we are going to talk about these two little girls who are still missing.
20:58The mother with the two girls appeared deceased.
21:01If you want, we share the first part in a while of that report.
21:05And in relation to what Sergio said about donations.
21:08Yesterday I had to particularly go, in my case, to make a donation to the Clube Estudiantes de la Plata.
21:13All Argentine clubs are opening their doors, Leo.
21:16With Leo.
21:17Because it's easy, it's simple.
21:19It's impressive.
21:20And it arrives.
21:21All the clubs, right?
21:22All the clubs are there.
21:23Look at the list I have here.
21:24Impressive.
21:25The Argentine clubs have become donation centers.
21:28Yes.
21:29In the last few hours and in the next few hours.
21:31Well, now we are going to write it down and we have it on a plaque, right?
21:34We are going to be saying one by one.
21:36Where?
21:37But I have a long list.
21:39They are almost all.
21:40In Capital Federal, in Provincia de Buenos Aires, wherever they want.
21:44In the interior too.
21:45In Rosario, in Uwells.
21:46Well, everywhere the clubs are being donation centers for people.
21:51You can approach, as Mauro did, and you can make your donation to the victims of Bahía Blanca.