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Heavy Rains Continue Throughout Costa Rica
By Explore Costa Rica Staff
Nov 2, 2007, 06:05

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Heavy Rains Continue Throughout Costa Rica

Tropical Storm Noel is expected to keep heavy rains in Costa Rica over the weekend. The National Emergency Commission (CNE) maintains a yellow alert for the entire Pacific Coast and a green alert for the Caribbean.

Low-pressure systems over the Caribbean Sea are generating rain over much of Costa Rica, according to reports from the National Meteorological Institute (IMN).

Wednesday night, rains flooded approximately 40 homes in the cantons of Barva and San Rafael. 20 families lost everything. According the the commission, the bridge over Río Segundo de Barva collapsed, and a fiber-optic phone line providing service to San Jose de la Montaña was severed.

In the Southern Zone, three shelters remain open, housing over 90 people who were forced to leave their homes after they were washed out by floods late last week.

CNE president Daniel Gallardo announced yesterday that the commission has received ¢560 million ($1 million) in donations from individuals and companies to help with relief efforts. The money is going towards rebuilding homes, repairing roads and bridges and getting urgently needed supplies to those who have been displaced.

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