Still very heavy rains and many hours with the breathless due to the risk of new ones floods in Spain. This time to live one bad day because of Dana there were thousands of people Barcelona and other areas of Cataloniaremained in for a long time alert For bad weather And associated dangers. The precipitation they provoked severe inconveniences particularly for the mobilitywith dozens of canceled flights hey local trains out of order until late afternoon. While in the flagellated area of Valencia continue thenightmare due to the devastating impact offlood which took place last Tuesday.
AtEl Prat airport Of Barcelona the situation began to get particularly complicated towards mid-morning. In fact, within four hours they accumulated in the area approximately 150 liters of water per square meteror more than what it usually rains there in over three months: a sufficient amount to send in tilt The air traffic and cause suppression of approx 70 flights (including at least four fromItaly) and the deviation to other airports of another 18. At a very short distance, what was particularly worrying was the Llobregat riverwhich in passing through the southern belt of the city has swelled far beyond its usual scope, according to local authorities.
«Don’t go near the banks!», warned the Civil Protectionbefore issuing, hours later, a more reassuring message in which he indicated that the situation was “normalizing». Always in the same area, the rain caused several problems circulation also on road networkfor example onC-32 highway flooded near Castelldefels. As for the railwaysin addition to train stops service metropolitansRodalies‘, there were also delays on the Barcelona-Madrid high-speed line. There Dana instead he spared the heart of the Catalan capital: «I damage they were minimal,” the mayor said Jaume Collboni.
Meanwhile a Valencia there is still no peace as we continue to look for possibilities missing after the death toll of theflood communicated by Ministry of the Interior has reached the figure of 214 (to which at least three must be added in other points of the Spain). A little one sigh of relief arrived due to the fact that, so far, the inspections carried out in parking of the shopping center Bonaire Of Aldaiain which dozens of people were feared trapped, did not lead to anyone being found diedaccording to police. THE’Emergency military unit However, he announced that he had prepared one mortuary capable of hosting “up to 400 bodies”, a sign that the figure is more tragic of theemergency it could grow further.
In the over 70s affected municipalities fromflood Meanwhile, the enormous amount of work continues Work still needed to restore the normality: removal of vehicles, street cleaning from mud and dirt, repairs of infrastructure damage. At the regionwhere one has also just landed military ship with new means and helphave so far been allocated approx 7,800 soldiers and beyond 8,000 Between policemen And firefighters.
And loads of them also arrive from outside food and other goods of first necessity collected through solidarity campaigns (only a Madridfor example, have already been prepared 230 trucks). But the climate remains evident in the area nervousness and now the fear of spread of diseases for the possibility that they exist corpses still not collected after floods last week. “There isn’t a significant risk of epidemics», however, reassured the Ministry of Health.