. But the constant alerts issued by the administrations, the suspension of classes and teleworking meant that all the damage caused was only material. . Málaga cleaned its flooded streets, Alhaurín de la Torre removed the branches of fallen trees, Monda cleaned the houses affected by the floods and in the region of La Axarquía work was being done to fix the many roads and highways closed to traffic. . Among them, several bars, a hardware store, a kiosk, a supermarket, the church or the branches of Cajamar and . Also several homes. There each neighbor celebrated that there was only material damage. “. We had learned the lesson,” said Pablo Díaz.
All while the State Meteorological Agency () already maintained only a yellow warning in the region of . There, up to three roads were cut off and the residents of five towns on the banks of the Guadiaro had to be evacuated as a preventive measure. In one of them, Jimera de Líbar, a flood loaded with stones caused damage to homes, vehicles and streets. and the orange warning remained until the afternoon in Seville and Cádiz.
In this province, traffic was cut off on three roads and a hundred people had to be evacuated from the municipality of San Roque – who later returned to their homes – and another six had to be rescued in Jimena de la Frontera after being trapped on a roof like consequence of the flooding of a stream. In the notice it was scheduled to end at midnight, putting an end to the dana. Since its inception, the 112 Andalusia Emergency services have attended to 1,266 incidents. The majority (983) were concentrated in Málaga, while the rest were distributed as follows: 140 in Granada, 64 in Almería, 32 in Cádiz, 23 in Seville, 12 in Córdoba, 11 in Jaén and one in Huelva. Up to 4,000 members of the Civil Guard and National Police have been deployed in the Andalusian community these days, according to Government sources.
“It was like a wave”
The images, precisely, of the National Police helicopter served to get an idea of the consequences of the storm in Malaga. There are numerous affected areas both in the Guadalhorce Valley and on the Costa del Sol and Axarquía. This region took the worst part. Especially Benamargosa, where up to 150 liters per square meter were recorded and the river overflowed, reaching an average level of six meters high, double its previous historical maximum. , explained Laura Ramírez, 33, while cleaning the El Río bar, where she works. Nearby, volunteers, operational services employees and firefighters were removing mud from everywhere. “We had to come and help,” said sisters Rocío and Toñi Calderón, aged 40 and 48, who lived in the upper part of the town and who came down first thing in the morning to lend a hand to those affected. Several firefighter checkpoints from the Infoca Plan also attended, while others moved to resolve the damage caused in Almogía.
While Benamargosa shook from the immense shock, normality also returned a few kilometers further down. The overflowing of another river, this time the Vélez, also forced the evacuation of a thousand campers from two campsites. Some 750 slept at the Salvador Sánchez sports center in Vélez-Málaga. “It wasn’t the best night of my life, but we are fine,” said the German Burkhard T. while thanking them for the help. “We have been able to have dinner and now have breakfast, everything has been very easy,” stressed the British couple Helma and Jo, 67 years old. Everyone was able to return to their accommodations throughout the afternoon. 180 residents of the Campanillas neighborhood, in the city of Málaga, were also able to return home, as well as the 25 who were evacuated in Benalmádena. The 3,000 evicted on the banks of the Guadalhorce – in the municipalities of Álora, Cártama, Pizarra, Alhaurín el Grande and the capital – could not return to their homes due to fear of the river flooding and they had five sports centers at their disposal to spend the night.
“The appropriate conditions do not exist for there to be sufficient security,” said the president of the Junta de Andalucía, who also confirmed the progressive return to normality in health centers and hospitals, both Clinical and Regional. . The majority of municipalities also gradually returned to reactivate the operation of all their activities, such as urban and interurban buses, in addition to citizen services. The high speed between Malaga and Madrid resumed operation in the morning, although the two Cercanías lines remained suspended throughout the day, as did the medium-distance trains between the capital and Seville. The routine will also return to the classrooms on Friday, where all schools in Malaga, Granada, Seville and Cádiz will return to classes.
