The heavy rain that hit the city of Sao Paulo on the afternoon of Wednesday (12) caused death and damage in various parts of the state capital. One of them, Mackenzie University, had trees knocked down by the storm.
Students who was in class at the time of the rain recorded the strength of rain and wind, causing the fall of tree branches in the teaching unit. Look:
After the rain, it was possible to see the damage that the storm caused:
Chaos in Pinheiros
Pinheiros was one of the most affected neighborhoods in the capital. In the surroundings, other vehicles were damaged by the fall of the vegetation and the glass structure of the Light Restaurant, also located at Artur Azevedo Street, gave way to the temporal.
One of the employees, who did not want to identify himself, explained to the report that the strong winds caused a large glass window to the establishment. No one was injured, she said. Sought, the local managers did not want to record an interview.
Chef Diego Louzano’s restaurant was closed, with sidewalk, with a pile of shards scattered on the floor.
Different streets and establishments of Pinheiros were without electricity – in the capital, about 127,000 had the service interrupted, according to Enel, the concessionaire responsible for the distribution of energy in the metropolitan region of São Paulo. The few trades with light, worked with the use of generator, as observed by the report.
Luciano Vieira, manager of a trade that sells puff pastry, was concerned about the lack of electricity on the street when he was approached by the report, around 20h this Wednesday. Unable to count on a generator, he had more than 300 kilos of frozen merchandise in freezers that had been turned off since the power outage at the street, around 5 pm. “I asked my company to send a car with refrigerator to put the pasta,” he said.
Working for three years at Artur Azevedo, he said this is the first time he saw something similar in the region in terms of damage caused by thunderstorms. “We heard a very loud noise, as if something burst, and the light went out,” he said.
Death in the center
The Fire Department received 158 tree falls on Wednesday. One of them crashed over a vehicle on Senador Queiroz Avenue in the city center and killed a taxi driver. His identity was not informed. Other people who were also in the vehicle had to receive medical attention.
Another tree that fell because of the thunderstorms was the third oldest in São Paulo, a 200 -year -old Chichá, which was in Largo do Arouche, the central region of the capital.
According to the City Hall Climate Emergency Management Center (CGE), the gusts that hit the city of Sao Paulo on Wednesday reached 62.9 km/h.
(With information from Agência Estado)
This content was originally published in Mackenzie students record rain strength in SP; Watch video on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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