“Everything was covered with mud”

Unlock the congested gutters … A task including the inhabitants of the Heitiare subdivision in Paea had to pay this morning. If they had waited for the intervention of public works taken elsewhere, they would have been flooded. At the bottom of the valley, the river charged pebbles and pieces of wood. Four houses had their entrance closer without talking about their garden.

“There are lots of mud on the terraces, fortunately it has not returned to the houses. There is a lot of cleaning especially since this glue mud”

Francis Van Bastolear – Resident of the Heitiare subdivision.

Corinne Pressouyre also lives in this Paea subdivision. “”Everything was covered with mud. A man came to help us, he was cleaning up the street and he spontaneously came to help us because it could happen home“.

Some houses in the neighborhood have been flooded. Sometimes residents had time to put the essentials dry. “”We put the mattress, important affairs, height furniture. The others will go“, says Caroline Marzin, another resident of Heitiare.

Same situation on the side of Papara, five houses flooded in two districts: Tiamao and Afarerii. The firefighters gave the hand to clear the gutters. “We have three really well flooded houses, especially at the level of clogged evacuations in the RP1 and the dwellings that are behind the houses “, explain Odette Torohia, head of the Papara firefighters.

As in Paea, the first degree establishments closed. 60 students were deposited at their school out of the 260 in the municipality of Papara. “”It is also better for the safety of our children, we do not know what will happen with nature“, estimated Sonia Taae, mayor of Papara. The Papara college, the Taiarapu high school and the Papara primary schools will be Closed tomorrow too. Each parent is to ensure whether the school of their child will be open or not.