The president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Morenovisited this Thursday the areas most affected by the floods in the Guadalhorce valley after the passage of the DANA, which left 4,200 people expelled from their home but which was resolved without bodily harm.
Moreno took advantage of the visit to thank citizens for their understanding with the preventive measures adopted by the administrations and their collaboration, and announced that “if all goes well”, the schools of the province of Malaga will resume this Friday the classes suspended for two days due to the storm, as is assumed that makes the rest of the nearly half a million schoolchildren which did not take place this Thursday in five provinces after the passage of this meteorological phenomenon.
“We will return to normality in the educational field If you can, tomorrow, but on condition that there are guarantees of security for boys and girls and, of course, for parents”, commented the Andalusian president, who said he was aware that we has already asked parents and mothers “to make an effort” by suspending classes in the provinces of Malaga, Granada, Seville, Huelva, Cádiz. “I know this has caused a lot of problems, a lot families They had nowhere to leave their children. I know the complaints of certain parents in certain circumstances because it is true that in certain areas it does not rain, but we did it precisely to prevent, to protect their children and protect them too,” he added.
“I ask you to be understandable, because we are doing this to preventyou should avoid traveling, especially when it starts to rain and they go to pick up the children, which is very dangerous. “Prevention is better than reconstruction, prevention is better than cure,” he reiterated.
“We learned from Valencia”, commented the president in statements to Canal Sur in which he thanked “the sensitivity» that citizens had by following security recommendations to avoid damage and “the confidence demonstrated in the administrations”.
Support between administrations
This is how he appreciated coordination of all administrationsin particular with the Government Delegation, to deploy the operation with the sole objective of mitigating the damage. Moreno pointed out that on Wednesday he told the presidential adviser: Antonio Sanzto keep the Leader of the Opposition informed, Juan Espadason the measures that were adopted and the evolution of DANA.
The president emphasized Benamargosa he “exemplary behavior” of the citizens of Malaga facing the “most torrential rains of the last 35 years”, which he linked to “the enormous sensitivity that the images of the Valencia disaster brought about, which also had a learning role for the emergency services of the rest of the autonomous communities and also for the citizens, who took the alerts very seriously.
Moreno called for maintaining the caution since it is still active in the afternoon orange notice due to heavy rains in the provinces of Seville, Cádiz and Huelva, where the flooding of several rivers is imminent and many municipalities have activated their level 1 alert for flood prevention.
