Rains in Paraná: state has 275 thousand properties without electricity, trees fall and church pavilion collapses

Several cities in Paraná recorded damage, falling trees and lack of electricity during intense rains in the early afternoon of this Saturday (7).

In Curitiba, a large tree fell in Pilarzinho and blocks Avenida Fredolin Wolf. A car didn't see it and crashed, without serious damage.

Tree falls were also recorded in Capão Raso, Santa Felicidade, São Braz, Hauer and Boqueirão.

Cities in the Metropolitan Region of the capital of Paraná also recorded damage, including Pinhais, São José dos Pinhais and Araucária.

In addition to the fall of a large araucaria tree in Pinhais, a condominium in the city recorded the collapse of a parking structure. Despite the material damage, no one was injured.

Copel data indicates at least 275,000 properties without electricity in Paraná in the early afternoon of this Saturday. With 107,358 properties in Curitiba, 18,316 properties in São José dos Pinhais and 10,476 in Itaperuçu.

Paraná is under a storm warning from the National Institute of Meteorology (Inmet). According to Climatempo, the storms are expected to be more intense in cities in the south and southwest, but in some parts of the north of the state winds can also reach 90 km/h.

Church pavilion collapsed in Laranjeiras do Sul

The walls of the pavilion of the Comunidade São Francisco de Assis church collapsed in Laranjeiras do Sul.

Half of the space's roof had already been ripped off by the storm that hit the city on October 4 this year, when the wind gust reached 124 kilometers per hour, damaging 850 homes.

This Saturday, heavy rain hit the city again, with winds of up to 80 kilometers per hour, around 11 am, according to Simepar. With that, the walls of the space fell.

The pavilion was unoccupied and had not been used since the storm in early October. According to the church's minister, Janice Aparecida Couto Nessa, only the bathrooms and the kitchen in the space were left standing.

"This is sad, very sad, because this pavilion has a beautiful history, it is one of the oldest in the communities. Our community is one of the oldest and so is the pavilion. A lot of history, weddings, parties, theaters, sports, recreation, catechesis, we did it there, we used it, and now this has happened", he lamented.

Despite the heavy rain and wind over Laranjeiras do Sul, firefighters did not record any incidents related to the storm in the city.

Wind speed

At least 17 cities recorded wind gusts above 50 km/h this Saturday, until 1:15 pm, at the meteorological stations of the Paraná Environmental Technology and Monitoring System (Simepar):

Assis Chateaubriand: 52.9 km/h at 12:45 pm

Cambará: 57.6 km/h at 12:15 pm

Cascavel: 62.3 km/h at 11:45 am

Cornélio Procópio: 55.8 km/h at 1:15 pm

Entre Rios District, in Guarapuava: 56.2 km/h at 11:30 am

General Carneiro: 74.5 km/h at 9:15 am

Guarapuava: 75.6 km/h at 11:45 am

Laranjeiras do Sul: 80.3 km/h at 11am

Londrina: 50.8 km/h at 11am

Maringá: 75.2 km/h at 1:15 pm

Palmas: 56.5 km/h at 9am

Horizonte District, in Palmas: 70.9 km/h at 9:15 am

Santa Maria do Oeste: 90.7 km/h at 12:15 pm

Nova Prata do Iguaçu: 53.6 km/h at 9:45 am

Toledo: 60.5 km/h at 11:45 am

Ubiratã: 51.8 km/h at 12:30 pm

Umuarama: 56.2 km/h at 1 pm