But while Ical who finds himself on higher ground is remaining calm, another Blue Creek resident who didn't wish to be named called our newsroom this evening with a desperate plea for help.
Voice of: Victim of Flooding
"We have several persons in the shelter, well a so-called shelter here at Mafredi area. They don't even have basic needs like water. These persons have not eaten breakfast and some of them haven't had breakfast because of the rising waters this morning they were forced to evacuate and the NEMO Toledo have been taking very long to answer the person's request and its seems that they do not have a proper preparedness in place. So that is the exact thing that I want to portray at this moment."
"We have elders in the shelter. Like I said there are children here that have not eaten. At the moment we have about 60 persons here in the shelter without water and food. We are trying to get in contact with Mr. Kenton Parham. We really need help here as regards to basic necessities, water and food for the persons, especially the ones that have evacuated."
"40 families have been affected by this flood. That is like 132 persons and we need help urgently. It's not only water and basic necessities and there are persons here in the shelter and we don't have persons advising us as to an estimated time of arrival for the help and I have the village leaders as well here. They advise us to keep our circle, meaning that we have to stay with our families. Persons who live in one home would stay together and we are trying our best to adhere to that protocol. It seems that it's raining more in Blue Creek. There are several homes that uses fire hearth, they don't have a basic stove and they use firewood and firewood is wet right now, so they are unable to cook for their families. We need help in regards to that."
And sadly those villagers will have to cool their heels in that shelter a bit longer because the forecast is flood levels on the Rio Grande at San Pedro Columbia and Moho rivers at Blue Creek South are expected to continue through to Thursday evening, before receding to above normal levels.
