EPA / Montserrat Martinez
Water can reach 100 liters per square meter in Malaga
Southern Spain has been under red warning since today, but this extends to Catalonia, at the other end of the country. In Malaga, 3,000 people have already been evacuated from their homes and the rain continues.
In 12 hours, water in Malaga can reach more than 100 liters per square meter. Almost 3,000 people have already been evacuated from 1,074 houses located closer to the banks of the Campanillas River, due to the risk of overflow, says the.
Flooding on the tracks also forced suspension of high-speed trains between Madrid and Malagaas well as all municipal buses. It is worth remembering that a train had already derailed at the end of October in Malaga due to bad weather, affecting 291 passengers.
The rain caused by the storm has already flooded the entire area of the laboratory. Malaga Clinical Hospitalwhich activated the Emergency Plan for Floods and announced that it will only be operational for emergency and urgent care.
Also the city of Marbella is suffering from a sea storm “that did not turn into a tornado, but left authorities and inhabitants alert”, writes El Mundo.
It was also agreed to suspend judicial activity in the coastal districts of Granada, namely in the Almuñécar and Motril courts. Also a large number of commercial establishments in the city of Málaga and the surrounding neighborhoods on red alert remains closed.
Other Spanish areas, from the Andalusia to Catalonia Catalonia and the Valencian Communitydevastated two weeks ago by floods, are under orange warning, also because of the rain. Already the Asturias, Castile and León, Galicia and Murcia are under yellow warning.
