A strong storm discharged between 50 and 90 liters this Sunday afternoon in Sitges (Garraf) and flooded several streets, especially in the Terramar area. The neighborhoods located further west have been greatly affected.
The showers have also been of torrential intensity in other nearby towns such as Sant Pere de Ribes (65 liters) and Vilanova i la Geltrú (between 30 and 55 liters).
The Generalitat Firefighters received around thirty warnings starting at 4:00 p.m. in this area of Garraf, basically due to flooding in basements and garages or accumulations of water on public roads.
Protecció Civil has sent an alert to the mobile phones of the residents of Garraf, Alt Penedès and Baix Penedès due to torrential and continuous rains during the next few hours.
At the moment, rainfall of up to 60 mm has been recorded and a vehicle has been trapped on the Navarra Avenue bridge in Sitges, although its occupants are unharmed, and intense rainfall is also being recorded in the town of Vilanova i la Geltrú. .
These new mobile notices are added to those that Civil Protection has sent this noon to the citizens of nine regions in the south of Catalonia, in which they were informed that, between next midnight and noon tomorrow, non-mobile mobility would be suspended. essential and educational activity in the face of the forecast of heavy rains due to the rains.
Shortly afterwards, Civil Protection reported that this message had reached some mobile phones in the Garraf and Alt Penedès regions due to the proximity of the telephone antennas and that these areas were not on alert, although the climatological evolution has now expanded the alert. alerts to those territories.
The Vanguard
