Andalusia | More than 3,100 people are still evicted waiting for the arrival of the new storm
Precipitation and gusts of wind have been the protagonists of the 24 incidents that have been coordinated last night and early morning in Andalusia, where 3,118 people are still evacuated, and which is awaiting the arrival of the new storm starting this Friday Oriana.
112 reports that, at this time, the number of evicted people amounts to 3,118, mostly in Cádiz (2,581), Málaga (257), Córdoba (87), Granada (108), Jaén (67), Huelva (8) and Seville (10), which increases after six people were evicted yesterday afternoon from two homes at risk of collapse in Pruna (Seville). Last night, the preventive removal of 12 more people from the surroundings of the Cortes station, in Cortes de la Frontera (Málaga), was also ordered, as well as twenty more evictions in Zagra and Monachil in Granada.
The operation currently has 43 active incidents and four scenarios in a working situation; although it is foreseeable that the figure will increase during the day today with the effects of the storm.
Almost half of the 112 calls between dawn and night have been caused by falls of branches, trees and elements of street furniture in parts of Seville, Huelva, Córdoba and Cádiz, without personal injury, and the Andalusian Emergency Agency (EMA) has made a new call for caution before the entry of the new storm.
Yesterday closed with 157 emergencies managed and the accumulated number of this swarm of storms, since last January 27, amounts to almost 12,000 emergencies (11,929). By provinces, Cádiz with 2,564, Jaén with 2,079, Seville with 1,992, Granada with 1,655, Málaga with 1,230, followed by Córdoba with 1,137, Almería with 746 and Huelva with 526, as reported by the Board in a statement.
The General Directorate of Traffic has reported that, at this time, the Andalusian autonomous community has a total of 144 roads affected, of which 116 are closed. The majority of the conditions are found in the Cadiz province with up to 37 roads closed to road traffic, followed by Granada with 24, Córdoba with 18, Jaén with 12, Málaga with 10, Seville with eight and Huelva with seven.
The Board of Trustees of the Alhambra has reported that it has cut off access to the central forest due to the wind warning in the capital of Granada, and in Los Villares, Jaén, there have been several landslides that have affected the A-6050 at various points, the same has happened on the A-6301 in Beas de Segura.
The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) activates weather warnings for today in all Andalusian provinces. Orange level (significant danger) are the wind warnings in Almería (Valle del Almanzora and Los Vélez, Nacimiento and Campo de Tabernas, Poniente and Capital) for gusts of up to 90 kilometers per hour. The same level of risk is active in the Levante of Almería, in the Poniente and Almería capital and on the coast of Granada, although due to coastal phenomena, as in the Strait (Cádiz), due to force 8 winds of up to 75 kilometers per hour and waves of up to five meters.
The rains are accompanied by an orange warning in the Cádiz region of Grazalema (Cádiz) due to accumulated amounts of up to 110 liters per square meter in 12 hours and 180 liters in 24 hours, while Aemet activates the yellow warning also due to rain in the provinces of Granada (Nevada and Alpujarras), Jaén (Cazorla and Segura) and Málaga (Ronda). Yellow warnings are also in force for wind in all Andalusian provinces and for coastal phenomena along the entire coast. (Efe)
