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Cost Rica Caribbean Coast is Pretty Much Isolated
June 27th, 2015
Weather conditions have worsened and for all intents and purposes, the Caribbean side of Costa Rica has been cut off not only for travel but much of communications. The most affected are Siquirres, Matina, Sarapiqui, Turrialba, Limón, Talamanca and Valle de la Estrella.
The only way to the Caribbean area is Route 10 (Paradise-Turrialba-Siquirres) and is regulated.
On Route 32, at KM 25, a landslide of an estimate 4 billion cubic meters has closed the highway completely. Other massive flooding has temporarily affected the fiber optic line disrupting the cellular and fixed phone service near Sarapiqui.
Obviously my readers here in CR know all about this, but folks visiting Costa Rica may well want to find out the current situation on the Caribbean side before setting off. Conditions are dangerous.
Below is a video sent to me by a friend near Guapiles. It pretty much shows the incredible flooding and while in Spanish, it is not hard to understand what he is saying.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmSaXF_r_P8[/youtube]
Tim
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