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Sayulita Flood Recovery Efforts Underway
 Jay Ailworth - PVNN
September 11, 2010
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Nuevo Vallarta resident and photographer Jay Ailworth made another trip to Sayulita on September 10th to report on area road conditions and the clean-up efforts being made in the small town of Sayulita, where landslides and flooding caused by the recent heavy rains have wreaked havoc.
Here at BanderasNews, we extend our heartfelt thanks and gratitude to Jay for taking the time and making the effort to keep us, and our readers, informed. Here is his report:
I made another trip to Sayulita today. The highway was much easier to travel today. The road crews are getting all the slides clear and the only stoppages are where the road itself has been damaged or undercut by the river that runs alongside it from Guamuchil to San Ignacio.
In Sayulita itself there is much work being done. The Army is there and is helping people to get the mud from inside their homes. With the exception of the Army the people on the south side of the river seem to be fending for themselves. The state of Nayarit has civil protection vehicles all over town.
I wandered through most of the town on the south side of the river when I first arrived. Everyone seems to be in good spirits even though the devastation is massive. The people I talked to were upbeat and always wanted to help me find the areas that they wanted people to know about.
There is running water everywhere. The mud is pervasive. On the north side of the river there were quite a few municipal workers clearing mud and debris from the cobblestone streets. Pickup trucks full of workmen and skip loaders where in evidence just about everywhere I went on the north side.
I drove south out of town toward Punta Mita because I was told of a major collapse of the road just past Patsquaro. The entire road was swept away by the river. There is a way around the cut but only for 4X4 vehicles. I decided not to try it with my Jeep since a pickup truck with several men in it did cross but then came back about 15 minutes later. There must be another blockage further along the road.
I also saw a pickup truck upside down and covered with debris in the middle of the river bed and just south of that there was a house that appeared to be intact but had in fact floated off it's foundation and was sitting at an angle on the side of the river.
Yesterday someone told me the road was blocked on the other side of the pass (on the Punta Mita side) as well.
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