Those who reside or are currently in the vicinity of rural Cádiz must have noticed their cell phones starting to beep loudly. This is an alert issued by the Andalusian Government in areas with red notice due to heavy rains, which are currently only affecting this part of the province of Cádiz.
The Government of Andalusia activated the ES-ALERT system a few hours ago so that all cell phones located in areas declared high risk due to the passage of DANA receive this message, asking them to exercise extreme caution ” faced with the risk of flooding due to changing weather patterns. For now, there is only a red alert in Cádiz, although the province of Seville is on orange alert and heavy rain is expected until midnight.
This is the first time that the Government has used this massive alert system for the population – identical to the one activated on Tuesday in Valencia – and which until now had only been used during exercises, confirm ministry sources. of the Presidency.
DANA hit the province of Cádiz particularly hard, specifically the municipality of Jerez de la Frontera and its surroundings, which in two hours received 57 liters per square meter, between 12:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. The city is on red alert until midnight due to forecast rainfall of up to 120 liters in 12 hours. President Moreno, along with the Jerez City Council, insisted that citizens “exercise caution”.
The rains flooded houses, basements, establishments and caused puddles in the streets, forcing traffic to be interrupted. Until one in the afternoon, 145 incidents had been recorded in the province of Cádiz, the majority in Jerez, but also in Puerto de Santa María and Sanlúcar de Barrameda.
The storm that has hit the Andalusian Autonomous Community since last Monday leaves 927 incidents reported for the moment, after adding 57 in the early morning of Wednesday October 30.
