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For: EFE Updated 06 Feb 2022, 12: 02 pm EST
Wind gusts that exceed 180 kilometers per hour, generated by the Cold Front number 28, provoked in the last ones 24 hours that eight trailers that were circulating
overturned, with a light load, on the La Venta highway -La Ventosa, on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in the state of Oaxaca, southern Mexico.
In this section, where gusts of wind exceed 200 kilometers per hour, similar to a category 3 hurricane, the winds are capable of overturn heavy vehicles that venture to defy the effects of the wind or are unaware of its danger.
The effects of the Cold Front, began to be felt since Friday in this region of Oaxaca when the overturning of three tractor-trailers was recorded and as the winds did not cease this Saturdaythey overturned another five more units, fortunately without deaths or injuries.
In a statement, the regional Civil Protection delegation informed the 17: 30 local times (24: 30 GMT) that the passage of lightly loaded trucks was restricted in the section of 17 kilometers corresponding to the towns of La Venta-La Ventosa due to the effects of the gusts of icy winds that will persist during the next 48 hours.
In view of According to this forecast, dozens of carriers sheltered their units under bridges and at gas stations where they stop in groups to avoid being blown over by the wind.
One of the injured drivers, Pedro López told Efe that he was traveling with his brother from the state of Chiapas to the center of the country, and seeing the intensity of the gales, they decided circulate each in their unit paired in the same lane, but the wind ended up overturning them both.
The overturning of these two units occurred the afternoon this Saturday when the gusts of wind exceeded 437 kilometers per hour.
According to the inhabitants of La Ventosa, which is the closest inhabited area to the intense zone of the winds, in the last two years the intensity of the winds have been felt stronger in the region.
In this area of Oaxaca, wind companies take advantage of the force of the winds to generate clean energy destined for the center of the country, a situation that socially and politically confronts the inhabitants of the municipalities such as Juchitan and Union Hidalgo.
The Cold Front also causes high waves of two to three meters on the coast of Oaxaca and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and due to this the authorities of Civil Protection urged riverside fishermen to protect their boats to avoid human and material losses.
Also in the Sierra Norte region where a drop in temperature of up to two degrees Celsius is expected, Civil Protection recommended that citizens wrap up warm no longer light stoves inside their homes to keep warm because this practice has caused deaths from poisoning during the winter.
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