A Thousand Pine Trees Fallen, Seven Residents' Houses Damaged
SEMPU – A tornado hit two villages in Sempu District yesterday afternoon (30/11). The two villages whose residents were in a state of confusion because their houses were damaged were Karangsari Village and Jambewangi Village. As a result of the disaster, seven houses owned by residents, two of them were heavily damaged in Karanganyar and Nganjukan hamlets, Karangsari Village was heavily damaged by a tree falling on it.
The two houses that were heavily damaged belonged to a married couple (couple) Nurul Huda, 40, and Mutoyibah, 34, Karanganyar Hamlet, in RT 3, RW 3, and the Sumadi couple's house, 65, and Waginem, 52, residents of Ngajukkan Hamlet in RT 3, RW 3.
Nurul Huda's house was destroyed in the kitchen, bedroom, and a bathroom after being hit by four trees at once, namely two coconut trees, bendo tree, and mahogany. “I had just finished the noon prayer when I heard a roar, it turned out that the kitchen and my room were hit by a tree,Mutobiyah said, Nurul Huda's wife.
At that time, Mutobiyah ran to her old daughter's room 2,5 year is asleep. Her daughter was immediately picked up and taken out of the house. When he was outside, Three other trees were seen collapsing and hitting the kitchen and bedroom of his house.
"I'm still traumatized, luckily my child was carried by me and left the house,He said. Another house that was hit by a hibiscus tree, is a house owned by Sumadi and Waginem. When it rains, Sumadi was engrossed in sitting on a chair in front of the kitchen of his house.
Not long ago, suddenly there was a big wind and knocked down the hibiscus tree behind his house. “Visibility is limited, only about two meters. I heard a rumble, how come the kitchen of the house has been hit by a tree," he explained.
Luckily the collapsed kitchen roof of his house did not hit his head while sitting on a chair. "I immediately ran out into the street, my wife happened to be attending a recitation at a neighbour's house," he said.
Another resident's house that was hit by a tree, it belongs to Sugiyono, 45, in Nganjukan hamlet, RT 2, Rw 3, and Masruri's house, 34, in Karanganyar Hamlet, RT 3, RW 3. "We have made an inventory, for the time being there were two houses that were heavily damaged in Karangsari Village, while four other houses were moderately and lightly damaged,said the Head of the Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) Banyuwangi Regency, Really giving up.
Apart from coming to help, BPBD and Disaster Response Cadets (PROVISION) also brought chainsaw equipment (chain show). They immediately evacuated and cut down the trees that hit the house, including trees that cross the road.
Meanwhile, the whirlwind that swept through Jambewangi Village, Sempu Kecamatan District, happened on Tuesday afternoon (29/11). In this village the strong wind hit Sumberejo Hamlet at 15.11. There were no casualties in this natural disaster, but two houses belonging to residents were heavily damaged.
The two houses that were heavily damaged belonged to Sutamar, 58, and Asmawi, 47, residents of Dusun Sumberejo, Jambewangi Village. "When it rains and the wind comes, I am taking a shower, after getting out of the bathroom my house was crushed by a mahogany tree,Sumar said.
Fortunately, when the incident happened he managed to survive. even though, the bathroom was also damaged because it was also hit by a tree. His wife is in the kitchen, immediately lay down beside the stove and suffered an abrasion on the left elbow.
“Alhamdulillah, still safe and only the kitchen and bathroom were destroyed by a tree," he said. In Jambewangi Village, a tornado also destroyed Eko Pusponijan's chicken coop, 49, residents of Dusun Sumberejo, Jambewangi Village.
The chicken coop that was built three years ago was leveled to the ground. Hundreds of chickens that are still old 15 the day died. “The cage has just been filled with as many chickens 2.500 tail, I still haven't counted the dead and the living," he said. (radar)
