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In Puerto Rico, the highest rainfall total was 2.4 inches (61 mm) in Rio Piedras. [5] August 22–23 – Tropical Storm Dean dropped heavy rainfall across Puerto Rico, peaking at 12.7 inches (322 mm) in Salinas. The passage of Dean resulted in widespread flooding in eastern and southern Puerto Rico, collapsing two bridges and one road.
1970 – Caribbean–Azores hurricane struck Puerto Rico as a tropical depression, it was the wettest tropical cyclone on record to affect Puerto Rico. [90] The depression left 10,000 people homeless across Puerto Rico, [91] with 3,000 housed in emergency shelters in San Juan. [92] At least 600 houses were destroyed and another 1,000 damaged. [93]
In 1963, the station was located on Avenida Tito Castro (Puerto Rico Highway 14) in the La Rambla sector of Barrio Machuelo Abajo; its transmitter tower was located within the municipality of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, and it was an affiliate of WAPA-TV, but carried two local programs from Ponce. [22]
Telenoticias Puerto Rico, more commonly known as just Telenoticias, is the flagship newscast for Telemundo owned-and-operated station WKAQ-TV in San Juan, Puerto Rico.It currently airs four editions on weekdays, a morning one anchored by Grenda Rivera, an 11 a.m. one anchored by Ivonne Solla Cabrera and Walter Soto León, a 4 p.m. edition anchored by Zugey Lamela and Julio Rivera Saniel, a 5 p ...
Across Puerto Rico, the floods damaged 1,700 houses and destroyed another 1,300. [6] About 50,000 people had to leave their houses for shelter across Puerto Rico. Damage was estimated at $125 million (1985 USD), and throughout the territory, the floods killed 180 people, 150 of whom lived in Ponce. [ 1 ]
The Bureau for Emergency Management and Disaster Administration —Spanish: Negociado para el Manejo de Emergencias y Administración de Desastres— is the agency of the executive branch of the government of Puerto Rico that oversees all emergency activities that occur in Puerto Rico.
Noticentro in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. WAPA-TV (channel 4) is a Spanish-language independent television station in San Juan, Puerto Rico, owned by WAPA Media Group.The station's studios are located on Luis Vigoreaux Avenue in Guaynabo, and its transmitter is on the WKAQ-TV (channel 2) transmission tower at Cerro La Santa in Cayey near the Carite State Forest.
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