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Malaga flooding latest: Severe rain alert for parts of southern Spain as some homes flooded. Andy Gregory. November 15, 2024 at 2:18 AM. Severe weather alerts have been issued and thousands were ...
It is the worst flood-related catastrophe Spain has witnessed since at least 1996 when 87 people died and 180 were injured in a flash flood near Biescas in the Pyrenees.
In Malaga, flooding on Wednesday forced the main hospital to halt services as water swept through corridors. Major roads and the high-speed rail link with Madrid were also closed.
Evacuees fleeing Hurricane Rita in Texas, United States. This list of mass evacuations includes emergency evacuations of a large number of people in a short period of time. An emergency evacuation is the movement of persons from a dangerous place due to the threat or occurrence of a disastrous event whether from natural or man made causes, or as the result of war
Disastrous floods have been reported throughout the history of Valencia, from the 14th century up to the contemporary period. [5] The 1957 Valencia flood was caused by a three-day cold drop (Spanish: gota fría) (which usually leads to heavy autumn rains in Spain and France); it overflowed the banks of the Túria river and devastated the city of Valencia.
Sandbags and a flood wall holding flood waters in Otrokovice, Czech Republic The 2024 floods in the Czech Republic caused insured property damage equal to around 8.4 billion Czech crowns (€331.1 million), but insurance company estimates [ 20 ] place the damage as high as 19.3 billion Czech crowns (€761.5 million).
Spain's Civil Protection Agency sent a mass alert to phones warning of an "extreme risk of rainfall".
www.malaga.eu Málaga ( / ˈ m æ l ə ɡ ə / ⓘ ; Spanish: [ˈmalaɣa] ⓘ ) is a municipality of Spain , capital of the Province of Málaga , in the autonomous community of Andalusia . With a population of 591,637 in 2024, [ 5 ] it is the second-most populous city in Andalusia and the sixth most populous in the country.