2025.10.11 – When the Cazones River Broke: Poza Rica Flood, Voices, Rain Engines & Trust

Posted byLeonardo Tomás CardilloPosted inUncategorized

Key Takeaways

  • On 10–11 October 2025 (Netherlands time), the Cazones River overflowed, flooding Poza Rica, Veracruz, damaging homes, shops, and industrial buildings.
  • Residents shared urgent, compact messages — darkness, drifting cars, relief when power returned — often with emojis (😱, 😳) and YouTube videos.
  • Verified reports estimate around 28 deaths across Mexico, including 2 in Veracruz; local claims of higher losses circulated, but lacked independent confirmation.
  • Meteorological factors include Invest 90E (a tracked tropical disturbance) evolving into Tropical Storm Raymond, supported by enhanced moisture from El Niño.
  • By comparison, Bahía Blanca, Argentina (7 March 2025) recorded 260–400 mm of rain and about 16 deaths. Poza Rica experienced a less intense downpour but similar consequences due to fragile infrastructure.

The River in Quiet Night

The photograph is haunting: the Cazones River at night, swollen to 8.50 meters, muddy and forceful. No people are visible — only water, structures, and darkness. That visual silence deepens the sense of aftermath.

Flooding the City

During 10–11 October 2025 (Netherlands time), the river breached its banks and surged into Poza Rica. Traffic lanes became currents, vehicles stalled or drifted.
Heavy damage was reported across Los Laureles, a Nissan facility lost its gates, and a Liverpool store was inundated. Both local and national coverage confirmed that the city suffered widespread flooding as waters spilled from the river.

Voices & Micro-Communication

When power failed, people narrowed their words:

  • “Everything OK with the flood?” (translated from Spanish)
  • “Lights back.” (translated from Spanish)
    Emojis — 😱 and 😳 — bore emotional weight. Around 19:17 Netherlands time, YouTube videos circulated showing submerged streets, buses, and storefronts — raw visual records of the flood.

Counting Loss & Discrepancies

Official statements suggest ~28 deaths nationwide, with 2 in Veracruz linked to the Poza Rica flooding. Some local reports cited 4 deaths, and community voices claimed ~10+ in Poza Rica itself.
Initial counts in disasters are often imperfect. As of now, there is no verified proof of systematic underreporting or concealment.

The Rain Engine

Meteorologists tracked Invest 90E, a Pacific disturbance later becoming Tropical Storm Raymond (Eastern Pacific EP17), under El Niño–augmented moisture.
Though not a landfalling hurricane, this interaction — plus geographic slope and inadequate drainage — triggered severe runoff, flooding rivers and city streets.

Comparing with Bahía Blanca

On 7 March 2025, Bahía Blanca, Argentina endured ~260–400 mm of rainfall within hours, causing ~16 deaths and widespread collapse of infrastructure.
Rainfall totals for Poza Rica remain uncertain in public sources. Yet the damage patterns echo: when river overflow meets weak urban drainage, even moderate rainfall can devastate.

Conclusions

This is not simply a story of rain. The Cazones River broke its banks and found a city with limited capacity to channel it. Residents documented the crisis through small signals — a message, an emoji, a shaky video — and those fragments now map their night.
While death counts differ, no credible evidence supports a deliberate cover-up.
What stands out: the magnitude of loss is shaped less by how much water falls and more by where it falls, how a city is built, and how people speak in the dark.

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Published by Leonardo Tomás Cardillo

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