Images circulating on social media depict cars being carried away by floods, buildings and businesses submerged in mud, and roads blocked by boulders from mudslides. Merida Governor Ramon Guevara confirmed that 11 people died in Tovar and two children lost their lives in Antonio Pinto Salinas. Guevara expressed his sorrow over the situation, stating that power outages occurred due to the flooding damaging transformers. The affected area is an agricultural region that supplies food to other regions of the country.