The National Roads (EN) 120, which connects Alcácer do Sal to Lagos, and 396, which serves the Loulé Industrial Zone (Algarve), were cut off early Friday morning due to bad weather, GNR said.
According to the same source, these are the only two national roads that are still cut off because of bad weather, after a “calmer” night.
On Thursday, Portugal Infrastructures (IP) reported on the EN 120 cut in the municipality of Aljezur, Faro district, due to the risk of sliding caused by bad weather.
While the EN 120 connects Alcácer do Sal, in Setúbal district, Lagos, in the Faro district, the EN 396 serves the Loulé Industrial Zone and is parallel to the variant that connects Loulé to Quarteira (Algarve)
The National Emergency and Civil Protection Authority (Anepc) registered between 00:00 and 06:00 this Friday 23 occurrences related to the passage of the depression Martin, which contrasts with the previous night, with thousands of occurrences.
In information published on the social network Facebook, Anepc indicates that 23 occurrences related to the adverse weather situation were recorded, which involved 29 operational and 27 terrestrial media.
Contacted by Lusa agency, Anepc source said “the night was much calmer compared to the day before.”
Civil Protection had accounted for 8,600 occurrences in mainland Portugal between 00:00 on Wednesday and 22:00 on Thursday, due to the passage of depression, in which the most affected region was Lisbon and Tagus Valley.
According to Anepc, the typology of occurrences with the highest incidence was the fall of trees (4,751 occurrences), followed by the drop in structures (2,251) and road cleansing (1,389).
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