Planning Minister Julio De Vido announced that five days after a severe storm hit the south of the Greater Buenos Aires area, more than 30,000 people still have no electricity in their homes.
In a press conference held by De Vido, Social Development Minister Alicia Kirchner and Security Secretary Sergio Berni, the official explained that this is a tragedy that goes “beyond the lack of electricity,” since seventeen people have already been killed.
De Vido praised the work of the several mayors who joined forces and worked together to bring relief to those areas hit by the storm.
The minister assured that during the storm, 2,600,000 people were left without electricity after a tension tower collapsed due to the strong winds.
“Close to a 30 percent of the system went down all of a sudden,” he explained. “With such a power outage, electricity could have gone out everywhere. But this didn’t happen because we have a modern system,” he said.
“Five minutes after the storm was over, electricity was restored to at least half of the population,” the minister assured.
The cities most affected by the storm are Quilmes, Ituzaingó, Merlo, Morón, Florencio Varela, Moreno, Berazategui, Ezeiza and La Matanza.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald