This Monday, November 4, 2024, bad weather arrives in Catalonia, just a few days after the major deadly floods in the Valencia region.
The weather continues to terrorize Spain. After the deadly bad weather in the Valencia region which left more than 200 dead and nearly 2,000 missing, rain is now falling on Catalonia and its capital, Barcelona, indicates BFMTV. This Monday, the Barcelona coastline is on red alert, according to the Spanish weather station AEMET.
u26a0ufe0f RED NOTICE | Barcelona coastline.
Extreme danger due to torrential rains: a very intense shower has left 81 l/m² at El Prat airport.
In Baix Llobregat more than 180 l/m² can accumulate in 24 hours. Be very careful! Do not travel if it is not strictly necessary! pic.twitter.com/FdDSzOkcwJ— AEMET (@AEMET_Esp) https://twitter.com/AEMET_Esp/status/1853375570333077579?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Water dripping from the ceiling
In the northeastern region of Spain, heavy rain falls in Barcelona and the Catalan region. Since the start of the day, damage can already be recorded.
Barcelona El Prat Airport is currently underwater, as can be seen in images from regional television BE Catalunya relayed on social networks. We can see flooded landing strips, water pouring from the ceiling in recording rooms and completely submerged terminals.
ud83dudd34ud83dudcf9This is how El Prat Airport is right now. Many flights are diverted to other destinations. The parking lot is starting to flood. The workers for the moment have to go there, the ground operation remains the same. @SERCatalunya pic.twitter.com/gdy1IVb9nq
— Ferran Dalmau (@FerranDalmau) https://twitter.com/FerranDalmau/status/1853374777953575256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Videos of users are multiplying on social networks, some of whom find themselves walking barefoot so as not to wet their clothes.
Regarding thefts, here too, the situation is becoming more and more complicated. While a crisis committee was set up, the Catalan airport decided to divert around fifteen flights which were due to land. Several others have been postponed or canceled, specifies BFMTV.
Anger rises in the country
Hundreds of residents of a Valencia suburb particularly affected by last week's deadly floods protested Sunday during a visit by Spain's King Felipe and Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, with some throwing mud at them.
To the cries of “Assassins, assassins !”, Residents expressed anger at authorities' warnings and response from emergency services considered late at the time of Tuesday's storm and resulting flooding in the Valencia region.
“We knew it and no one did anything to prevent it,” declared a young man to the king, who insisted on staying to speak to the population despite the agitation, while the Prime Minister had withdrawn. At one point during his visit to the disaster-stricken suburb of Paiporta, Felipe took a crying man on his shoulder.
