Eran apenas unos ničos pequeños, o no habían nacido, cuando ocurrió la tragedia en Las Colinas de Santa Tecla. Apenas understands the dimension of the correct. It is well known in the place that the icon of a national tragedy is flying.
A tornado struck El Salvador at 11:33 a.m. on January 13, 2001. Its magnitude was 7.6. One of the most affected places to visit the Colinas colony in Santa Tecla. A tide of earth, which spreads from the cord of El Bálsamo, soterró 200 lives and killed up to 500 people, casi the middle of the total number of deaths in all the countries.
It is 20 years since the tragedy of its inhabitants came to life on a normal day. Milena Bahamón has 13 years of life together with her family of passers-by who care about the slavery of Las Colinas, where the earthly noise does not cover the houses, and she has a memory of when in 2008 her mother bought the house.
“We created Santa Tecla as a great option for living, for its location and for being economically accessible to us as a family and located near San Salvador.”
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Recall many families and friends questioning the purchase by the suicidal six years ago “Before we were more frequent that we would live and the people would be extracurricular to the creator that was a habitable place”.
Image of the 2001 earthquake in Las Colinas.
“The people who associate Las Colinas with the destruction that the cordillera used, but in reality it is very high is a quiet place, so it is, when we are together with the first ones that our friends and relatives have to know, but in reality as a passage we are very much in contact and believe that the last thing we have are the straights of the terrain ”.
“Quizos like ours in viviamos have not given me so much time because I have this relationship, not like other vices that only record to be able to lose. He is the story because he led and he listened to the relationships of the vecinos, but there is no connection with the tragedy ”.
Milena makes sure that after 13 years she is hogar and has no need for mudarse, it is more, make sure that the zone is mixed with more shops and it is very transitory.
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Jazmín Flores has ten years and will recover as she grows up with her parents in order for her and her husband to go to the bank and go to all the families to deal with the traumas. In the house no quadará nadie. Jazmín lives just to the point where the earthly heat passes. Your home will provide data in the cochera and a quarter of the second plant.
Going back to the bank, and finding the tragedy, is not much of a suicidal ideation. “Recuerdo haber visto como accommodat los cuerpos de los vecinos de las enfrente casas. I was saved by the mind and the world, even if I did not understand, you were killed. When you create it you understand it all ”.
Jazmín and his family do not have the livelihood for those years until they decide to return the debt to the cases that are in the abandoned houses. Conversion of new in his hogar. Geen podían abandonarlo así por así nie.
“It is a good place to live and to have a house for sale, not to be missed. It is a very accessible place, secure and the directive has managed mitigation tasks so that no one can pass a disaster ”.
Jazmín assures that after 20 years no one can be stigmatized in his community. “Poco a poco las casas han ido subiendo de price. Antes eran bien baratas. There is more business, the banks and agilized traumatism for the sake of living ”.
It has confidence in the fact that collision mitigation works arrive with a security guarantee that the mountain will not be flooded. “Peligro corremos in any place of this land and creo that life must continue, just as vegetation has new need, as well as our lives”.
In the year 2006 Guillermo Ayala had the opportunity to buy a house in Santa Tecla, a house that would be completely abandoned. The former two had the habit of being on a subway through which the heat and the bank were returning.
His wife Alexandra sabía of the tragedy because a very vivia near Las Colinas. Thank you to God for not passing them by. I can tell you that my father is living in this house and we live like our friends from Sensuntepeque and live here ”.
Various cases will be abandoned during the term, but we will find new ones that we will buy. ‘Always queda el miedo. When the time comes, we can not begin to think about what will happen, ”added Nelson Ayala hermano Alexandra.
Guillermo had to buy alone to pay for the money. The perception of insecurity has passed with the years. “With nature, we can never be sure, but we believe that the workings of mitigation work”.
For Alejandro Flores, who has been running for more than 20 years as president of the Las Colinas Vocational Association, ensures that there is no technical information that allows the vices to run risky living in the zone. “This is a safe, clear place, the risk will lie because it is as if all lads are impossible. Hoy appears to be a stable place, but in reality there is no studio that has the certification and tampoco voluntary policy of hacerlo ”.
“Well done, the OPAMSS presented a study based on what happened to those entities, however, we have now seen. There are only the works of mitigation that he has and that we will demand that he act in order not to repeat the 13th of January of 2001 ”year.