torrential rains fall on Malaga, Valencia still affected

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The nightmare continues for the Spaniards. Barely two weeks after the deadly floods which hit the Valencia region, new bad weather has hit the south and east of Spain.

After a night of red vigilancethe damage in the Andalusian province of Malaga (south) and for the region of Valencia (east) is impressive.

Residents barricaded

Wednesday, November 13 in the evening, start of the red alert. But from the morning, faced with fears of new floods, residents had made makeshift barricades with bags of earth in front of the doors of houses in Paiporta, a town on the outskirts of Valencia, considered the epicenter of the disaster of October 29.

Only travel for “cases of force majeure” is authorized, announced Wednesday evening the conservative president of the Valencia region, Carlos Mazón.

Clean up damage from previous floods

Above all, the authorities feared in particular to see overflow the still clogged sewers by the tons of mud and rubbish which accumulated in the affected communities at the end of October, which the authorities have not yet been able to completely evacuate.

4,200 people evacuated in Malaga

In addition to the Valencia region, Andalusia was also affected by torrential rains.

In Malaga, where several roads were flooded and where the air traffic was severely disruptedthe metro was closed and the train line to Madrid was suspended.

More than 4,200 people were also evacuated “preventatively”, according to the authorities.
“Prevention is better than cure, we saw it in Valencia,” explained the president of the Andalusia region, Juan Manuel Moreno, during a trip to Seville.

According to Aemet, the Spanish meteorological agency, torrential rains did indeed fall overnight in the regions concerned, with accumulations of 110 liters of water per square meter (110 millimeters) in Alcudia de Veo, in the hinterland of Valencia, and 88 liters (88 mm) in Chiva, a village already hit by the floods at the end of October.

The red alert was lifted in the morning, this Thursday, November 14.

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