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mayor of Ponce's press officer. Additionally, the number of destroyed houses was overestimated, only to be revised downward owing to before-and-after satellite images and interviews with survivors. After the
Mameyes landslide, about 150 people, including National Guardsmen, worked to locate bodies with the assistance of six rescue dogs. Rescue workers also recovered 23 bodies from the collapsed bridge near Coamo. On October 13, officials halted the search for any survivors of the landslide, although workers continued to look for storm victims. On October 22, Governor Colón ordered the teams to stop searching for bodies after officials determined that there was a threat of further landslides. Workers initially had difficulty assisting the affected families due to the occurrence in early morning and the continued intensity of the rain, and as a result, only 50 bodies were recovered. Many houses around the Mameyes landslide were later demolished as they were at risk for further landslides.
239:. At least six cars drove into an unlit 35 ft (11 m) gap in the road, killing 29 people. Four of the deaths were police officers who were trying to rescue a family from a car that was washed away. At least six bridges were washed out across the island. The floods left about 32,000 people without power, and some towns were isolated. The floods shut down 11 water filtration plants and 13 sewage treatment plants, which left 16 municipalities temporarily without water. Across Puerto Rico, the floods damaged 1,700 houses and destroyed another 1,300. About 50,000 people had to leave their houses for shelter across Puerto Rico. Damage was estimated at $ 125 million (1985 USD), and throughout the territory, the floods killed 180 people, 150 of whom lived in Ponce. Officials considered the system to be the "worst disaster" on the island since
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school were asked by their teacher to draw "whatever came to their minds". Several of them made drawings that some people see as premonitions of the disaster. Several of the drawings featured crosses, and dark earth-like colors. Some of the children died in the landslide. The drawings were handed by
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Mameyes victims at the site. Originally the memorial was known as "el Parque de la Recordación del Barrio Mameyes", literally "Park of the Remembrance of the Neighborhood Mameyes" in English. In 2011, however, residents of
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114:. Two stations broke their 24-hour rainfall records set in 1899. The rains caused severe flooding in the southern half of Puerto Rico, which isolated towns, washed out roads, and caused rivers to exceed their banks. In addition to the deadly landslide in Mameyes, the floods washed out a bridge in
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90 houses, killing about 130 people; however, the death toll could have been as high as 300. This made it the deadliest single landslide on record in North
America. Many of the homes in Mameyes were poorly built with tin and wood materials, and some were built on stilts.
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787:"Emergency Management Planning: Hurricanes/Tropical Storms"
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880:Significant Landslide Events in the United States
674:"Tropical Storm Isabel – October 4–16, 1985"
1089:"'Search for life' ends in shantytown mudslide"
644:Ferdinand Quiñones and Karl G. Johnson (1987).
605:. University of the West Indies. Archived from
519:(Report). National Hurricane Center. 2012-03-30
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727:"Mudslides, floods kill dozens in Puerto Rico"
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544:Robert C. Sheets (1985-11-14).
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413:All damage totals are in 1985
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182:Hispaniola
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283:Aftermath
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243:in 1960.
233:Río Coamo
180:north of
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