Major Flooding (a few minutes away) (videos)

Yesterday some of our friends went to take a look at the incredible flooding just a few minutes away from where we live.

The flooding happened on a major highway, which goes from Mexico City to the City of Puebla, in an area known as Chalco.  I drove that highway yesterday and this morning, and where I got on was just where they had it all blocked off (but I was going the other direction).

The river (which is actually sewage water) actually runs above the highway, and so when the river bank burst the highway was quickly flooded, along with houses and businesses nearby.  There were explosions – vehicles burned – people killed – it’s going to be a long time before anyone can even get some of the vehicles out of the river, which is now running through the highway and nearby buildings.

You need to understand, it rarely rains like this here, even in rainy season (it’s dry season now).  The rain normally comes in short bursts with lots of sunshine in between.  Continual rain over more than one day is rare, and no one is ready for it.

I’m going to include a couple videos below from Rod Fry, and I’ll give you a link below so that you can read more at his blog about the flooding and see more videos if you like.

We’re going to try to do some networking and see if we can provide some relief to families in the area, many of whom have probably lost everything.  News sources have said that 12 thousand families were affected in Chalco.  If you’d like to help, please let us know as soon as you can.  Thanks!  Hopefully we can distribute food, clothes … whatever people need … in Jesus’ name.

To read/see more, check out Rod’s first post Flooding near here, please pray, then some more short videos in More videos of Valle de Chalco flooding.

For news sources, there are some excellent pictures of the Chalco flood here: Torrential rain floods Mexican states and in Spanish see Aguas negras afectan a 12 mil familias en Chalco.

Here’s a Google Maps shot of the area where the river bank burst.  You can see the river winding above the highway.  If you zoom out just a bit, you’ll see Ixtapaluca where we live, north of the highway.  We live just off the highway.