Argentina: Flooding From Torrential Rains Kill 41

Argentina: flooding from torrential rains kill 41 Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 12:23 pm, Wednesday, April 3, 2013 LA PLATA, Argentina (AP) — At least 35 people were killed by flooding overnight in Argentina's Buenos Aires province, the governor said Wednesday, bringing the overall death toll from days of torrential rains to at least 41 and leaving large stretches of the provincial capital under water. People waded out of their neighborhoods through chest-high water, and police and neighbors teamed up using rubber motorboats to evacuate families and pets to higher ground. The rains — almost 16 inches (400 millimeters) in about two hours — hit provincial La Plata after causing widespread flooding and power outages and killing six people in the city of Buenos Aires the day before. Macri said Wednesday that the only solution is for the constantly warring governments to work together on expensive and long-term public works projects, creating huge underground drainage pipes to carry increasingly common torrential rains out to the Rio de la Plata. "Facing the magnitude of what we've lived through, I insist that public works are what will change this story," Macri said, describing one such project that was achieved through regional cooperation and a loan from the World Bank — the kind of borrowing that the government of President Cristina Fernandez has sought to avoid.

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