A strong storm hit Tarragona and various municipalities in the Alt and Baix Camp and Baix Penedès regions early this Monday morning, causing flooding of streets and some ground floors. The water has especially affected the Tarragona neighborhood of Serrallo, in the lower part of the city. In some areas they have been left without electricity supply.
Other nearby towns were also affected by the rain, which forced the exit of the C-32 in Cubelles and L’Arboç to be cut off due to the large accumulation of water. In the Tarragona direction, traffic was diverted early in the morning along the C-15 in the Vilanova i la Geltrú area. The danger was also focused on the Francolí River basin.
In the afternoon, the rain had already landed in Sitges (Garraf), where several streets were flooded, especially in the Terramar area, and the neighborhoods located further west were greatly affected.
The Generalitat Firefighters received around thirty notices from various municipalities in El 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.
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
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