President Luis Abinader, Given the threat that Category 4 Hurricane Beryl represents to the DR, it activated prevention protocols, and to this end, it led a Coordination meeting with the main institutions, ministries and general directorates of the government, as part of the prevention protocol.
He explained that the meeting, with the presence of the mayors of the Greater Santo Domingo and also of the Dominican Municipal League, is for coordinate the actions with the municipalities in the south of the country and especially two provinces, which are Barahona and Flintswhich, with the current trajectory, would be receiving rains and some winds.
The president said that urgent measures are save lifes and work in coordination with local governments, in the face of the threat of Hurricane Beryl What would be happening? to the south from the Dominican Republic on Tuesday.
“The main thing right now and the urgent measures are to save lives. We are going to take special measures for homes in vulnerable places with the Ministry of Defence and the Police Directorateand in coordination with local governments, municipalities and also, in the case of Greater Santo Domingo, with the Caasd”, stated President Abinader.
“Houses in vulnerable places, especially in ravines, we are going to act to save the lives of themselves and their families,” The head of state pointed out
He also reported that all prevention is being coordinated between different institutions such as ministries, general directorates, city councils and relief agencies.
The governor said he hopes that the current course of Hurricane Beryl will continue, which would only leave a lot of rain in the national territory, without directly affecting.
President Abinader expressed that, given the danger of Hurricane Beryl, they have taken measures caution and preventiondespite not being in a direct direction towards the Dominican Republic.
He recommended to the population follow the recommendations from the Operations and Emergency Center (COE), so that they can be alert to any variation in the path of the atmospheric phenomenon.
President Abinader indicated that they will remain in permanent session of prevention, and clarified that to date, Hurricane Beryl will not touch Dominican soilbut it will pass south of the Dominican Republic.
He also said that it is his responsibility, and of any responsible managementtake precaution in case the hurricane’s path changes. “So far, rain and some events are expected in Pedernales and Barahona. I repeat, what we are doing is precautionary measures.”
On your side, the director of the Onamet, Gloria Ceballosexplained that Hurricane Beryl has not reached the arc of the Lesser Antilles and is located about 500 kilometers east-southeast of Barbadosaccording to an image taken at 10:00 in the morningwhere it had maximum sustained wind of 185 kilometers per hour.
“A little while ago they sent a correction that the maximum sustained winds are now at 215 kilometers per hour, which means it is a Category 4 hurricane,” he said.
Ceballos added that the hurricane moves west and that the high pressure system that guides these meteorological phenomena stays southwhich makes it less dangerous for the countryHowever, he clarified that It is a very dangerous hurricane.which could reach category 5 upon entering the Caribbean Sea.
According to the director of Onamet, it is projected that on the Caribbean coast there will be a quite dangerous waves and said that conditions like high temperatures in the Caribbeanthe weak behavior of the winds at height, have favored the rapid strengthening of this phenomenon.
He explained that the rainfall projection It is at 50 and 100 millimeters in the southern coast, and in the Central Mountain Range could arrive between 100 and 150 millimetersand added that the center of the hurricane, with a well-defined eye, was predicted to be passing at South of that country about 235 kilometers, and from the capital, about 350 kilometers.
Meanwhile, the director of the COE, Juan Manuel Mendezexplained that he held a meeting with all the links that make up the institution he heads, and it was agreed to issue, in principle, a green alert level of the entire coastal stripwhich goes from the provinces Altagracia to Pedernales.
In that sense, he said that the provinces on alert green are the National District, Santo Domingo, Pedernales, Barahona, San Cristobal, Peravia, Azua, La Romana, San Pedro de Macoris and The Altagracia.
He indicated that the alert level will change, as the event approaches the area of influence and they are going to leave changing alert levelsand explained that this meteorological event When you go counterclockwise, the rains can go towards the northeastern part of the country.
«We are talking about the fact that most of the precipitation is concentrated in the northern quadrant of the event, that is, when they rotate it will throw us a lot of rain in the part of the Central Mountain Range and in the northeastern part of the country, perhaps more than in the same southern part of the country, because of the turn it makes”, he pointed.
The meeting was attended by ministers from the Presidency, Joel Santos; defense, Carlos Luciano Diaz Morfa; of Public Works, Deligne Ascension; of work, Luis Miguel De Camps; of health, Victor Atallah; of Housing and Buildings, Carlos Bonillaand Education, Angel Hernandez.
Also, Jose Ignacio Paliza; the general commander of the Army, Carlos Antonio Fernández Onofre; the directors of the National Police, Ramón Antonio Guzmán Peralta; of the Civil Defense, Juan Salas; of the Caasd, Felipe Subervi; from the Office for the Reorganization of Transportation (Opret), Rafael Santos Pérez; of the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources (Indrhi), Olmedo Caba, and the Presidential Social Assistance Plan (PASP), Yadira Altagracia Henríquez Núñez.
Likewise, the general manager of the Southern Electricity Distribution Company (Edesur), Milton Morrison; the general manager of Edeeste, Manuel Naut; the general manager of Edenorte, Andres Cueto; the president of the Commission for Neighborhood Development, Rolfi Rojas.
Likewise, the mayors of the National District, Carolina Mejia; from Santo Domingo Este, Dio Astacio; from Santo Domingo Oeste, Francisco Pena; from Santo Domingo North, Betty Geronimo; of the Alcarrizos, Junior Santos.
