BREAKING: Spain flash floods strike AGAIN as Girona left submerged with 32 cars floating down street

Today residents woke up to a caller country of demolition pursuing the floods successful Spain, with Girona politician Pia Serinyana revealing a full of 32 cars had been washed distant by the flood water

A flash flood has swept distant cars successful Spanish creator Salvador Dali’s erstwhile location country successful a repetition of the agonising scenes witnessed 10 days agone successful Valencia.

A raging torrent of h2o carried disconnected everything successful its way including much than 30 vehicles arsenic it swept done the centre of the Catalan municipality of Cadaques. A full of 32 cars were washed distant by the flood water, Girona politician Pia Serinyana said, with galore seen piled connected apical of 1 different by a span successful beforehand of the municipality casino.

At slightest 1 of the smashed up vehicles, pictures show, appeared to person belonged to a overseas tourist, with a fig sheet intelligibly disposable successful the pile. Despite the extended damage, determination were miraculously nary reports of immoderate quality casualties successful the erstwhile sportfishing village.

Catalan weather bureau Meteocat, which published footage of the latest flash flood to deed Spain successful the aboriginal hours of this morning, said determination was apt much than 4 inches of full rainfall. The bureau said: “This is however the Cadaques watercourse goes down aft the aggravated and continuous rainfall this morning, wherever determination is apt to person been much than 100mm of rainfall.”

One section nonmigratory said connected X, formerly Twitter: “The concern is precise superior successful Cadaques. Dozens of cars person been swept distant by the swollen watercourse successful the town, blocking up the bridge. It’s been galore years since thing similar this happened successful Cadaques.” The town’s politician confirmed aboriginal this greeting no-one had been injured oregon killed and lone worldly harm had occurred.

He said the fig of cars swept downstream had reached 32, adding: “We had an alert from the Operations Coordination Centre of Catalonia but radical parked their cars and the h2o swept them away.” The heaviest rainfall occurred betwixt 2am and 3am.
One section admitted: “If this raging torrent of h2o had travel done municipality during the time I’m definite we would person been looking astatine wide casualties.

“The clip of nighttime this happened saved america from a definite tragedy.” Cadaques is conscionable implicit 3 100 miles northbound of Valencia, wherever much than 200 radical including 2 Brits mislaid their lives successful flash floods precocious past period and 78 radical are inactive missing. The municipality successful Girona province, which a fashionable tourer destination, is location to the Salvador Dali House Museum.

It is successful Portligat a mates of miles from Cadaques municipality wherever the Spanish creator acceptable up location successful 1930 and usually lived and worked until 1982. Its authoritative colonisation is astir 3,000 but up to 10 times arsenic galore radical tin unrecorded successful the municipality during the highest of the summertime tourism season.