Three women lived a moment of great tension during the heavy rains that hit Sao Paulo on Wednesday, 12. They were aboard a vehicle hit by a tree that crashed on Artur Azevedo Street, in Pinheiros, a neighborhood of the west of São Paulo.
The vehicle was quite damaged. The front and rear -door glasses were totally destroyed. On the hood and windshield, it was possible to see the effects of the impact of the vegetation it gave in. Despite the material damage, the three victims had no serious injuries.
Two of them, Raquel Nascimento and Cristiane Andrade, who work in the administrative sector of the Hospital das Clínicas, said they had left around 5 pm, when they were arrested in the traffic of Artur Azevedo. In the car was also Rachel’s mother.
It was windy and rained so much that it was not possible to see the window, and the traffic light had already stopped working, they remember. “We were standing in traffic when my mother started talking: ‘That tree is swinging, my daughter, she’ll fall,’ says Raquel. “The tree came down slowly, and when it hit it went out kneading everything.”
“The blow was terrible, it was very strong. It has already sinking the ceiling, taking all the glass, ”says Cristiane. “The branches began to enter my glass on the passenger pack where I was. In the back, where was Rachel’s mother, she broke full. It was terrible. ”
Not knowing if any wire had also fallen with the tree, they say they feared to get out of the vehicle and take some shock. The body of firefighters and traders who work in the surroundings assisted in the rescue of the three women, who, despite the fright, had no serious injuries.
“It’s different when you watch television when you go through the scene. It is very dangerous to go out in temporal. There we saw the death, ”added Cristiane Andrade.
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.
(Collaborated Fabio Grellet)
This content was originally published in “We see death,” says passenger by car destroyed by SP on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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