1,089 Families On The South Coast Of West Sumatra Affected By Floods, The Sumatra Cross Road Was Paralyzed
Sebanyak 1.089 kepala keluarga (KK) di daerah Kecamatan Koto XI Tarusan, Kabupaten Pesisir Selatan, Sumatera Barat (Sumbar) terdampak banjir tindak hujan tinggi sejak kemarin siang hingga dini hari.
"There are about 889 houses affected in the Tarusan area or 1,089 families," said West Sumatra Province BPBD spokesman Ilham Wahab in Padang, Tuesday, January 7, as reported by Antara.
Meanwhile, he continued, the number of houses and families affected by Nagari (village) Barung-Barung Balapis, Nagari Duku and North Duku are still in the data collection stage by the BPBD team.
Although there were no casualties, the floods that hit Pesisir Selatan Regency caused the Sumatra cross road to be completely paralyzed. However, on Tuesday morning the road that directly connects West Sumatra with Bengkulu Province was already accessible.
Currently, he said, officers from various agencies are still working hard to help clean a number of roads that were disrupted due to materials in the form of stones, sand and wood trees carried by river currents.
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Post-disaster
Hydrometeorology hit a number of villages in Pesisir Selatan Regency, the community also started cleaning up piles of materials that had entered people's homes. The cleaning was also assisted directly by BPBD, TNI and Polri personnel.
Ilham said that currently BPBD is still recording the amount of damage or losses caused by the natural disaster, including the area of agricultural areas that have the potential to crop failure.
The high intensity of rainfall also occurred in Agam Regency and Tanah Datar Regency. BPBD together with the local Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) have appealed and reminded the public to increase vigilance, especially those living around the river that originates at Mount Marapi.
It is feared that high rainfall will trigger or cause an increase in water discharge in rivers that originate from Mount Marapi so that it has the potential to cause cold lava floods, such as events that occurred in mid-May 2024 which caused 67 deaths.