Flood in the desert: Tragedy in the north of Chile

The Atacama Desert is known as one of the driest in the world, then what happened?

US forecasters warned on March 21st that sighted a strange event in the second, third and fourth region of Chile. This situation would generate unusual rains in the desert, but no one expected a disaster occurs. The rain that much is expected, due to the severe drought that affected the country several years ago, came and swept away everything in its way.

So we face a difficult situation to understand, first, we notice meteorologists, and moreover, the population which was not informed that this meteorological event happen.
What I personally believe this, is that if it happened, that Onemi had warned the population, this alarm would not have generated major changes in the results because, as I said earlier, the tragedy was in the driest desert world!!
I also believe that Chile, as a centralized country, the news reached the authorities when a flood had swept cities like Chañaral, Copiapó and small towns like El Salado. Also, in the area of the desert, by normal weather conditions, is that cities are far away from each other, then the communication and connection between them was much more difficult, and if among these villages could not communicate, was even more difficult with other regions, such as the metropolitan region known it was raining, but not the magnitude of the event was known.

To conclude, I would say that Chile, we all know is a country where nature download their power, either through an earthquake or a volcano, are phenomena that Chileans are accustomed to live, the problem is that there are preventive policies throughout the country, and the work of geographers in this mainly lies in helping to develop awareness and policy primarily to prevent natural hazards.