Overview

• Municipal officials suspended classes after floodwaters in Barrio Centro rose to waist height and some families were evacuated.
• The José Vasconcelos Calderón secondary school and other campuses are being readied as temporary shelters for displaced residents.
• Chiapas Civil Protection deployed Immediate Response Team personnel and regional coordinators to support alerts and aid operations.
• The Mexican Army activated Plan DN-III to help with evacuations, cleanup and transport to temporary shelters in the municipality.
• Forecasters expect very heavy to intense rainfall in Soconusco through the week, warning of lightning, hail, rising rivers, landslides and dangerous wind gusts as the Suchiate River’s surge has already swept away rafts carrying merchandise.