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00:00These images, the story of a woman, the description she made about what she was suffering,
00:06supporting a whole community.
00:08In this case, fortunately, united with the support of national, provincial and municipal authorities
00:14to reverse a situation that is dramatic wherever you look at it.
00:18Yesterday, around 10 p.m., the government of the province of Buenos Aires
00:22confirmed the death of 10 people.
00:25Unfortunately, it cannot be ruled out that this number increases
00:28because the situation is desperate.
00:30Imagine, more than 300 millimeters.
00:33Some measurements speak of up to 400 millimeters.
00:36And the city center, as well as everything that surrounds the city,
00:41under water, with cars that were removed, taken by a stream of water
00:48that becomes unstoppable, becomes uncontainable.
00:51Everything that was done at times when the rain did not stop,
00:54when the hours passed and water continued to fall,
00:57everything that began to be done there meant that it was late.
01:02Although there were alerts, no one in the city of Bahía Blanca imagined
01:08that there could be a constant rain during that period of only 5 or 6 hours.
01:14It became something uncontainable.
01:16That is why we are going to listen to what happened to a family,
01:22which was multiplied by hundreds and hundreds of people
01:26who had to face the same thing.
01:29We are all under a roof, above a roof.
01:32We need help.
01:34We are behind the hideout in the part of Chango Mas, Casanova.
01:42I need help, that they can send us help.
01:46We cannot communicate.
01:49This is the situation we are living.
01:52There are more neighbors above the tanks.
01:57On that side we have other neighbors who are above the roof,
02:01who are no longer seen.
02:03And beyond, there are other neighbors too.
02:06We need urgent help.
02:10There is a lot of work to be done, but of course,
02:13we must make special emphasis on these stories that we are getting to know,
02:17stories of people who were describing how there were some inhabitants of the city
02:23already under the water, who were above a tank,
02:26because they could not be at home.
02:28Up to 2 meters high.
02:29Imagine 2 meters high of water in your own house,
02:34and with streets that were impassable.
02:37All activities suspended, from classes, public transport.
02:41And from now on, which is the moment
02:44we hope to accompany the weather conditions,
02:47and that it does not rain, because a rain this Saturday
02:50would aggravate everything that happened yesterday and that we are seeing in images.
02:54More stories, more stories.
02:56Listen.
03:03No!
03:04No!
03:13No!
03:23What can we do?
03:25My God!
03:27My God, help us!
03:29My God, help us!
03:31My God, help us!
03:35Help us, my God!
03:37My God, help us!
03:40Help us, my God!
03:42Help us!
03:45Oh, my God!
03:56That car you see there came over me.
04:00More cars are coming.
04:04The water is ...
04:07It is entering all the houses.
04:10It has a lot of strength.
04:12I have water in here.
04:14As you can see, I'm flooded.
04:19All I want is for my dad to know that I'm fine,
04:23that I'm going to be fine.
04:26I'm going to be fine, I'm going to be fine.
04:28Look how the car is going.
04:30That car pushed mine.
04:33Oh, God!
04:35Oh, God!
04:37God, God!
04:39Help us, God!
04:41Help us, God!
04:43Help us, God!
04:45God, please help us!
04:48Well, there the desperate request of a woman.
04:52In fact, the Episcopal Conference of Argentina
04:55has asked for a chain of prayer
04:57that extends this help in the material,
05:00but also from the spiritual,
05:02to accompany the people who have to deal with that,
05:05with the loss, for example, of a car,
05:07but also the despair of not seeing a relative
05:11or knowing how, for example, his father or grandfather was.
05:15Look, precipitations peak in Bahía Blanca.
05:17That's why we're talking about a historical time.
05:20The water record of rains in millimeters.
05:23In 1933, almost 168 millimeters fell.
05:29In 1975, another important rain,
05:33but with a record of 155 millimeters.
05:37Almost 155 millimeters.
05:39In 2023, they are rains, they are precipitations
05:42that marked the city of Bahía Blanca
05:44because they generated all kinds of inconveniences.
05:48Blocked streets, suspension of activities and others.
05:52In 2023, 120 millimeters fell.
05:55And to give you an idea of what this means,
05:58look at those 290 millimeters that were already exceeded
06:01by the rains that were recorded yesterday,
06:05after the most critical moment,
06:07and reaching, in some points of the city of Bahía Blanca,
06:12more than 350 millimeters.
06:14Why is this happening?
06:16Well, many assign it to climate change.
06:21And is there a way to contain a rain of this magnitude?
06:26We ask ourselves in Bahía Blanca or anywhere in the world.
06:29Claudio Velasco is a water engineer and he is with us.
06:32Claudio, good morning.
06:33Eduardo Bataille and the whole team of Vivo, we greet you.
06:37Good morning, Eduardo.
06:38A pleasure to be called.
06:40Let's see if you can tell us and clarify,
06:43in the face of a rain of this magnitude,
06:46is there any soil that can withstand it?
06:50Let's see, whenever it is raining,
06:54when it starts to rain, the first 5 millimeters
06:57are generally water absorption.
07:00Then it starts to drain,
07:02the soil behaves like a mirror.
07:05The issue is that we are prepared for storms like the ones we have.
07:13You have shown the evolution of the rain in Bahía Blanca,
07:19but in general, at the provincial level, at the world level,
07:24since the 80s, we have a change that has been generating
07:30due to global warming, due to climate change.
07:34Climate change is a reality.
07:36And can we prepare for those storms from a technical point of view?
07:43Yes, we can.
07:45Can we do it from a technical point of view?
07:47Yes.
07:48With works that are designed precisely for storms
07:53that we call extraordinary,
07:55or that originally in water engineering we call extraordinary storms.
08:00But today, those storms are becoming more and more common.
08:03Now, Claudio.
08:04Now, Claudio.
08:05We saw 392 millimeters in 24 hours.
08:09But the works that you point out,
08:12do they have to be done so that the magnitude of the natural disaster
08:17does not generate so many inconveniences?
08:19Or, for example, to prevent so many people from dying?
08:23Exactly.
08:24Because, let's see, we cannot reverse the climate.
08:28At the end of the world, with climate agreements,
08:31we can partially reduce or contain the advance of this change
08:37that is being generated on the planet from a climatic point of view
08:40and the consequences that it generates.
08:42But they can be done perfectly.
08:44And I think they should be done.
08:46For example, without going any further,
08:53making a comparison with what La Plata was, for example,
08:59that here we had 392 millimeters,
09:02I was able to show that a project of works
09:09prepared exclusively for storms like the one we had in April could really be rethought.
09:13What does this mean?
09:15That I can design with the traditional theory of hydraulics,
09:19which is what is done so far.
09:22In that theory, what I do is not take the values of the most extreme storms
09:28that we considered, but what we take is like a kind of statistic,
09:32so to speak, in a very simple way,
09:35a value of average storm, average rain.
09:38How much is the value of an average storm?
09:40And I designed it from that.
09:42I designed it exclusively from the April 2nd storm in 2013,
09:46which was very important,
09:48and that, let's say, the reality is,
09:51a storm is going to occur exactly like the April 2nd
09:54or like the one that took place now of 297 millimeters in Bahía Blanca.
09:58Surely not.
10:00But I am sure that the drainage sections,
10:05the canals, the expansion of the canal sections,
10:08the drainages of each block,
10:11are going to be better prepared for similar storms,
10:15no matter how much they are not the same as those that were in that region.
10:18And what would be, for example, a first work that can be done
10:23to avoid such a great damage as the one that Bahía Blanca is suffering?
10:29Look, look, Eduardo,
10:32each region, each environment deserves a specific study, obviously.
10:39But everything in general is aroused
10:44by working in the final drainages.
10:47That is, where a stream of water flows,
10:50towards its source.
10:52In that environment is the urbanized sector.
10:55For example, in the case of Bahía Blanca,
10:58evidently it overflowed,
11:01they call it the Maldonado Canal,
11:03and then we have another important stream.
11:06It is actually a basin,
11:08because it is not what rose in Bahía Blanca that generated the flood,
11:12it is what drags, what comes from the basin
11:16that flows into Bahía Blanca.
11:19And there we have, for example, a very important basin,
11:22which is... I was making a correlation
11:26so that we can see the magnitude,
11:28and allow me to see, because I don't remember,
11:30but the basin is called the Arroyo Napostá,
11:33a large postage and a small postage.
11:35That basin is born 130 kilometers from the city,
11:41it comes in the Sierra de la Ventana area,
11:44and that basin, for example, has a magnitude
11:48that, so that it is understood and compared,
11:50has 6 times the magnitude of Cava.
11:53Or, well, comparing with a basin that here
11:57generated the flood in 2013,
11:59which is the Arroyo del Gato, it has 10 times.
12:02So, it depends on the magnitude of the rain
12:05throughout the basin.
12:07In the high basin, I was analyzing the rainfall,
12:10for example, in Tolquín,
12:12in Tolquín, Sierra de la Ventana,
12:14it rained about 60 millimeters.
12:16Assuming that the front of the storm,
12:18which was so wide, had rained all that magnitude
12:21of 200 and something millimeters
12:23along that whole basin,
12:25which are about,
12:27almost, allow me,
12:301,237 square kilometers.
12:33So, what I have to start with
12:35is with the drainages in the sewage.
12:37That sewage that was done,
12:39because in reality we had the Arroyo Napostá,
12:41then the Maldonado Canal was built,
12:44which borders the city of Bahía Blanca.
12:48And then I have to go to the water,
12:50then I have to analyze, sorry.
12:53No, I say, very interesting what you have raised
12:55to continue talking,
12:57but you have to consider, right?
12:59What would be the works that can be done
13:01according to the characteristics of each city
13:03to avoid that the damage is as great
13:05as what has happened in Bahía Blanca.
13:07Well, now we have to work on the drama
13:09and on the situation of the most affected people.
13:11Thank you, Claudio, for talking to us.
13:14Not at all, a pleasure.