This Friday morning, the authorities authorized the return to their homes of the 211 people affected by the preventive expulsion from the rural neighborhoods of El Portal, La Corta, Greduela and Las Pachecas, in Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz), decided last place. Thursday, due to the risk of flooding in the Guadalete River channel, as reported by the Minister of Presidency and Interior, Antonio Sanz, at the forward command post (PMA) installed by the services of emergency said the city of Cadiz.
Antonio Sanz explained that this was a decision adopted within the Operations Committee of the emergency plan activated due to the heavy rainfall, after verifying that although the flow of the Guadalete River was “increasing” all night, after the aforementioned preventive evacuation, until 8:00 a.m. it reached a “historic maximum” of 5:43 a.m. with “obvious danger of overflowing”, at 9:00 a.m. the water was already beginning to “retreat”. adds that the streams that flow into the Guadalete have already completely discharged and the rain has stopped.
Sanz explained that among the 211 people expelled from the rural neighborhoods of Jerez mentioned above, some of whom were “convinced” to do so given their initial refusal, 47 spent the night in the Inturjoven de la Junta shelter or in a social center. Cáritas, while the others spent the night with relatives or friends.
In any case, “the decision is made for them to return” to their homes, the advisor defending the preventive expulsion agreed last Thursday afternoon, because then an “expulsion with serenity” could have been undertaken and the scenario to no longer have to undertake an “eviction in the middle of the morning” with all that that implies.
The advisor added that last Thursday 20 roads were affected by the storm in the province of Cádiz, 16 of them with total cuts and the others with partial cuts; Since this Friday, all have already reopened except for the one corresponding to the underground access to the Pachecas bridge, which is still affected by water; highlighting that Cádiz is responsible for 523 of the 1,757 incidents caused by the storm in Andalusia.
Roads closed
The General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) maintains with cuts or closures to traffic at 2:00 p.m. this Friday, November 1, a total of eight roads in Andalusia due to the road flooding due to the DANA that affected the community during there in recent days, five of them in the province of Cádiz, two in Granada and one in Seville. There are nine routes fewer than the 17 that were in this situation on the Andalusian network at 9:00 a.m.
Thus, according to the DGT website consulted by Europa Press, in Cádiz, the CA-3113 on the Portal road, the CA-5101 between La Garrapata and Gibalbín, the CA-5200 in Alcalá de los Gazules, the CA- 6101 in Coto de Bornos and the CA-9101 between Olvera and La Muela.
In the province of Granada, two roads are closed to traffic; specifically, the A-4200, between Río de Baza and Benamaurel, from kilometer 3 to 11, and the GR-4104 between El Bejarín and Benalúa, from kilometer 15 to 16.
Finally, in the province of Seville, the SE-4104 highway in Alcolea del Río, at kilometer 4, has partial cuts and difficult traffic.
