The alerts made a difficult night and confirmed. The strong wind made damage all over the country, especially in the Lisbon region. More than 8,000 requests for help arrived at Civil Protection.
Part of the wall collapsed when it was hit by the large tree. Five cars were hit, four were crushed near Campo de Ourique, Lisbon. Only 15 hours later did the firefighters arrive.
“This is one of the occurrences within 400 that we had from one moment to the next and in order of priorities we had to give primacy to it,” explains Jorge Santos de Sapadores de Lisboa.
At about the same time as the tree and wall fell in Cape da Roca, still in the Lisbon area, 169 kilometers per hour gusts were recorded.
No wonder this cascais restaurant complex facing the sea has been with the trees almost all on the floor. They fell after each other. It happened at various points in the village of Cascais.
The wind was such that it raised and became three aviooners in the Tires Aerodrome.
“We have two aircraft with about one ton and a third aircraft with about two tons. In addition to being paid here they were, and are attached with cables to some hoops that are also on the floor,” says Diana Dias, executive administrator of “Cascais Dynamics”
Two belong to one school, the other to one private. They are being evaluated to realize whether or not they can fly again.
Civil protection received more than eight thousand requests for help in the country. More than five thousand in the Lisbon region that was the most affected. With recent works, the coverage of a school in Odivelas flew to the road and damaged cars. Inside there is no damage.
Also in Lourinhã, residents’ concern is in the rain. The wind took the roof of five houses, leaving at least 13 people displaced who, however, could already return.
The undone was also the coverage of the Rio Ave stadium bench, in Vila do Conde. The same happened in Oliveira do Hospital at the Nogueirense Sports Association. The strong wind tore the structure of the concrete.
“The bench began to want to get up and in a second space we only saw one of the pillars from and the whole bench to get up and turn to the side of the road,” says Márcio Henriques, president of the Nogueirense Association.
At night the country got a number of fallen trees. Cut roads and lines from the train. In the Cascais line, in Paço de Arcos, a tree pushed the catenary on the composition. The driver was injured, a woman was hit by a tree in Sintra and is very reserved.
In all, the storm made eight injured.
