The more than 90 liters fallen during the last night and especially during the early morning hours in the municipality of Cartagena, according to the Spanish Meteorological Agency (AEMET), has caused numerous road cuts, floods of low and the rescue of a motorhome in the ravine of the Azohía, according to sources of the Local Police and of the Service of Extinction of Fires, Salvation and Civil Protection of the City council of Cartagena have informed.
Specifically, the Canteras road has been cut off in the vicinity of El Rosalar;
the old national 332 in the vicinity of Los Patojos;
the Siphon road at the height of Molino Derribao;
Jorge Juan street at its junction with Juan Fernández;
the roundabout of the Guide with the road of Pozo de los Palos;
the road of the Factory of the Lamps;
Alegría Street (former Millán Astray) in Santa Ana;
the Siphon road in the direction of Santa Ana;
the exit from El Bohío to the Siphon road;
in La Aljorra, the festival venue;
and Soldado Rosique street in both directions.
Flooding has also been recorded in the basement of the Cartagonova Stadium, where his press room is located and in La Azohía, at 6:45 am the firefighters have had to rescue a couple who were inside a caravan that He had parked in the river bed and the water had displaced her.
Other interventions of the firefighters have consisted in the draining of water in the factory of Liquor 43 in the Polígono de Los Camachos;
the rescue of a vehicle on the Siphon highway;
a traffic accident due to the fall of a branch in Santa Ana.
For its part, the AEMET keeps the orange warning for strong rainfall of between 60 and 100 liters in the next hours, until three in the afternoon on Saturday.
Citizens are advised to keep an eye on the weather reports and avoid traveling through flood zones and not to try to ford the course of any ravines.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena