{"id":487932,"date":"2025-10-23T19:32:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T23:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/residents-of-los-girasoles-cry-out-for-help-due-to-the-situations-caused-by-storm-melissa\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T19:44:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T23:44:55","slug":"residents-of-los-girasoles-cry-out-for-help-due-to-the-situations-caused-by-storm-melissa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/residents-of-los-girasoles-cry-out-for-help-due-to-the-situations-caused-by-storm-melissa\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents of Los Girasoles cry out for help due to the situations caused by storm Melissa"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo<\/strong>. \u2014 The residents of Sur street, in the Los Girasoles sector, near Monumental Avenue, are helpless and crying out due to the heavy rains caused by storm Melissa, which have caused major floods in the area.\n\nThe intense amount of water flowing down the ravine has forced many families to hastily leave their homes, leaving behind most of their belongings.\n\n\n
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\u201cWe are desperate. Look how the water is going down and you have to run out, with the mattresses floating,\u201d expressed one of the residents, while watching how the water kept rising.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nAnother community member pointed out that the problem is not new and that the authorities have promised solutions on several occasions without concrete results.\n\n\n

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“They always say they’re fixing it and nothing ever gets fixed,” lamented the neighbor.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe situation not only affects the homes, but also vehicular traffic, as numerous drivers have been stranded on Monumental Avenue as they are unable to cross due to the large amount of accumulated water.\n\n\n

You can also read: Residents of Los Girasoles demand street repair<\/a><\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\nIn some cases, the residents themselves have had to go out to help drivers trapped in the water.\n\nCommunity members say that crossing the street has become impossible, as the water level exceeds the sidewalk in several places. In addition, they express that the situation is “quite uncomfortable and desperate”, especially for families with children and the elderly.\n\nThe residents reiterate their call to the authorities<\/a> to take urgent and definitive measures to prevent this tragedy from repeating itself every time a storm occurs.\n\n\n
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Santo Domingo. \u2014 The residents of Sur street, in the Los Girasoles sector, near Monumental Avenue, are helpless and crying out due to the heavy rains caused by storm Melissa, which have caused major floods in the area. The intense amount of water flowing down the ravine has forced many families to hastily leave their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133543,"featured_media":487935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40216],"tags":[41575,42674,41439],"class_list":["post-487932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dominican-news","tag-floods","tag-melissa-storm","tag-the-sunflowers"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-22VS","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-10-23-at-7.18.31-PM.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Carolina \u00c1lvarez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-26-at-5.31.57-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-10-23-at-7.18.31-PM.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}