Week 7: Flooding

My sophomore year of high school my family decided to take a trip to Peru in order to visit family. Most of my dad’s side of the family lives in Cusco, Peru. While I was doing my research on recent floods in Peru I was devastated to learn that there was flooding due to heavy rainfall last April in Cusco. On the 19th of April, The National Meteorology and Hydrology Service of Peru sent out a report that 68mm of rain had fallen in the last 24 hours. There was an overflow in the Santa Fe and Otari rivers and one house was completely destroyed. Around 100 people were affected and landslides ended up affecting the roads. 

A month prior, on March 13, 2021 in Piura located 534 miles north of Lima, citizens were desperately trying to cross a river to escape the horrible flooding. Back in 2017, around half the country of Peru was under a state of emergency  and more than 250,000 children were affected due to the abnormal warming of Pacific waters resulting in El Niño. Around 380 health facilities were damaged and 1,000 schools collapsed. 

Work Cited:

https://www.kold.com/2021/03/13/thousands-displaced-after-sever-flooding-peru/#:~:text=Floods%20in%20Peru%2C%20thousands%20displaced%20during%20unusually%20heavy%20rain%20season,-Close&text=Peru%20(KOLD%20News%2013)%20%2D,an%20unusually%20heavy%20rain%20season.

https://floodlist.com/tag/peru

https://www.unicef.org/stories/hundreds-thousands-affected-devastating-floods-peru