Aragon continues this Saturday at level 2 of emergency of the Special Civil Protection Plan against the DANA that since yesterday is whipping the community. The Autonomous Government notified the population through a message that sent to the edge of midnight by the ES-Alert system and emergencies has asked the population to discard displacements and avoid low, basements and underground. Until 2.00 this morning, in the Ebro environment. For today, the activated alert is orange for rains and storms.
During this morning, the Emergency Military Unit in municipalities of the Ebro Ribera, such as Pedrola, Grisén, Figueruelas, Pleita and Barboles; With a recognition group. Meanwhile, firefighters continue working in Tarazona and Moncayo, where the maximum precipitation was recorded, with 57 liters per square meter. And at 10 am this morning a meeting of the Integrated Operational Coordination Center (Cecopi), in 112 Aragon, where the scope of the damage of this thromba is convened.
At the moment, all the capacity stations of the Ebro Hydrographic Confederation are at a green level. The A-122 is cut in both directions at the height of Pedrola and Figueruelas, by flood. The municipalities of Pradilla de Ebro and Boquiñeni have recovered the electricity supply at 4 in the morning, due to a medium voltage breakdown. And in the A-23 Direction Teruel continues the detour from the N330 at the height of Cariñena, but due to an accident of several trucks that was recorded yesterday afternoon. As for the railway circulation, Renfe reports that this morning the line between Castejón de Sos and Olite, in Navarra, has been restored, which had to be interrupted yesterday shortly after ten o’clock at night also because of the storms.
The electricity supply in the municipalities of Pradilla de Ebro and Boquiñeni has been restored shortly before 4.00, after the medium voltage breakdown recorded by the storms, for which at least 621 subscribers were left without electric supply.
The Dana unloaded strongly in Aragon, especially in the Moncayo area. In Tarazona, the water ran through streets where images could be seen with floating vehicles and trees fallen by the force of the storm that flooded the entire central promenade of this municipality, head of the region. His councilor Ana Calvo, in statements to the Being, made this balance in the last minute of yesterday: “They are mostly flooded garages and shops, we are withdrawing the fallen trees to leave the accesses free and we can recover mobility.”
“Interestingly, the rain came from the south, the wind was a hurricane and has fallen a lot of stone and hail has accumulated, it has been tremendous,” said a neighbor of Tarazona. Other points of the community such as Calatayud or Daroca have also registered significant amounts of hail. In the Daroca region they are in full cereal harvest with 70% collected and farmers are expectant for what may happen in the next few hours. Luis Miguel Quílez of the Agrarian Union Uaga trusted yesterday that the crops did not suffer too many conditions.
The Autonomous Community remains on orange alert in the three provinces. From the Aemet insist that the notices must be taken seriously. And Civil Protection also displays its volunteers through the territory, there are 800 in 34 groups. It is recommended not to travel if it is not essential; And if done, special attention is requested to drivers in case of being surprised by heavy rains.
Meanwhile, in Castilla y León, the skies opened on Friday afternoon and hail and rain began to take the Merindades, area of spectacular landscapes and sharp orography very quoted by camps of all origin. The alerts on the DANA that could affect in areas such as these speeds up the preventive measures to evict the facilities of the adolescents, between 8 and 18 years, to an approximate total of 400 along with their monitors and caregivers. The Civil Guard has coordinated the transfer work without special conditions or problems arising from the storm. A neighbor of the area explains that the camps usually settle in the low areas of the valleys, near the usually peaceful River Nela, and highlight that in episodes like these it is desirable that they rise as soon as possible in case the channel begins to receive torrents and the waters of the rest of the tributaries, multiple in this mountainous place. The greatest difficulty was that, when trying to evacuate the kids, there were parts of the roads that had flooded and the ground made it impossible to drive beyond special vehicles that were mobilized to expedite the process. The almost 200 members of a camp in the town of Nela had to be referred to the Villarcayo de Merindad de Castilla la Vieja sports center, quickly enabled for their rest tonight at the expense of how to adapt the days of the remaining colonies. The Civil Guard has insisted on relatives that at no time have any risk with minors, in the case of preventive measures to avoid risks to rainfall.
