Andalusia Raises Flood Emergency to Level 1 in Almería and Sends Mobile Alert to 40 Municipalities
The regional government of Andalusia announced on the afternoon of October 17 that it had raised its flood emergency plan to the emergency phase, operational situation 1, in the province of Almería, after the weather agency activated a red rain warning for the Poniente district and the provincial capital.
At 15:31 the regional emergency agency sent an Es-Alert message in Spanish and English to mobile phones in 40 municipalities, urging residents to take extreme care and avoid unnecessary travel. During the red warning, up to 60 litres per square metre fell in one hour around El Ejido, whose council activated its municipal emergency plan; the 112 emergency line had received more than 70 calls from El Ejido by mid-afternoon.
Regional figures for the day put the storm's total at 155 incidents across Andalusia, 121 of them in Almería province, with no personal injuries reported. The A-7 motorway was temporarily closed near El Ejido.
Source: Regional Government of Andalusia
Published by GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
Photo: 图：阿尔梅里亚省 El Ejido 的温室大棚。MdeVicente 摄，Wikimedia Commons，CC0。 / Photo: Greenhouses at El Ejido, Almería. Photo by MdeVicente, Wikimedia Commons, CC0.
