The four households, totaling 17 people left homeless on the island of São Miguel due to the bad weather, have all been given a temporary housing solution, a source from the Ponta Delgada City Hall told Lusa New Agency.

The Azorean Civil Protection Agency announced that fifty-six incidents, such as flooding, were recorded between Sunday night and Monday in Ponta Delgada and Ribeira Grande municipalities in São Miguel Island following heavy rain.

In the parish of Remédios, Ponta Delgada municipality, it was possible to house a couple with five children with their family while working on a rental or municipal housing process.

The other couple from Remédios, with one child, who were also waiting for accommodation, were taken in at the Ajuda da Bretanha Parish House, according to the municipality, which is counting on the support of the parish councils, the Regional Government, and Social Security in this process.

On Monday, in the parish of Ginetes, it had already been possible to house an elderly man and his son, whom relatives took in. At the same time, a couple from Santo António, with three children, were relocated to the Parish Center.

Teams from the municipal government of Ponta Delgada, the Social Security Agency, and the Regional Government are surveying the damage caused today.

The situations reported, “are mainly related to damage and flooding to municipal roads and homes, and there have also been reports of a river overflowing and, consequently, major damage to vehicles”.

Several municipal roads were closed to traffic in the parishes of Ginetes, Capelas, Santo António, Remédios, and Ajuda da Bretanha, according to Ponta Delgada Civil Protection.

The worsening of the weather was due to the passage of a frontal swell through the Azores archipelago.

From Lusa News Service in the newspaper Açoriano Oriental, Paulo Simões-Director.

Translated to English as a community outreach program from the Portuguese Beyond Borders Institute (PBBI) and the Modern and Classical Languages and Cultures Department (MCLL) as part of Bruma Publication and ADMA (Azores-Diaspora Medial Alliance)  at California State University, Fresno.