Orange Walk District watches and waits

While News Five’s small staff of reporters and cameramen have been on the go now for the better part of a week, we could not have covered this story without the help of our colleagues around the country. We have just received additional footage from Centaur Television in Orange Walk and the following clips from Orange Walk Town, San Antonio and San Roman come courtesy of that station.

Jorge Novelo, Resident, San Roman

“The situation in San Roman is so serious right now because we can’t come out from the village. We need boats to come out and we can’t come out without things anyway, so we can’t come out from the village.”

Manuela Ayuso, Centaur TV

“Did your village receive a lot of damage? Do you have families who are out of homes? Any flooding of homes?”

Jorge Novelo

“Everybody stayed in the village. The damage to the homes are not much, only some of the roofs, but we fixed that.”

Manuela Ayuso

“I understand that you significant damage to your agricultural crops. Tell us a little bit about that.”

Jorge Novelo

“We will have that when this flooding goes down, because the cane, the corn, all of that got damaged.”

Manuela Ayuso

“I noticed that the bridge is flooded. I know that there is a road behind that bridge and we cannot tell which is the road now, so are you able to tell us how far is this flooding?”

Jorge Novelo

“The flooding from the road to go to Orange Walk is one mile from the bridge. You can’t see the road right now because the water is so high. There is about 4 feet of water on top of the street on the road to go to Orange Walk.”

Manuela Ayuso

“Do you have any problems in getting food supplies to the village?”

Jorge Novelo

“Yes we have some problems. The village needs food right now.”

Thanks to our colleagues in Orange Walk for that report.