The DANA which ravaged the south-east of the peninsula had catastrophic consequences, particularly in the south-east, where it left at least 51 dead only in Valencia, but it also had serious consequences in Andalusia.
In Advice (Valle del Guadalhorce, Málaga), a family had to be rescued from the terrace of their house by the Civil Guard. This Tuesday around 9:30 p.m., José Ruiz left his house to clean the citrus farm where he works and which suffered terrible damage following the storm: destroyed machines, trucks, three cars… An hour more late, at 10:30 p.m., his wife called him: “We can’t leave the house”.
The catastrophic consequences of DANA in Malaga
Water entered from everywhere and little by little it surrounded the house, penetrating up to the first floor and making it impossible to stay or escape. The anxiety was unbearable.
His wife and their daughter went to the terrace of the house, where shortly after the Civil Guard helped them: “In half an hour they could not get out, They had to be rescued by helicopter.», Tells José to ABC.
In another house they own, on the same property, some young people live rented and ran to a nearby warehouse, whose roof they climbed, and from where they also had to be rescued by Benemérita.
Miguel Osuna fled the flood, which ended up reaching four meters high
Another Malaga man who runs a construction company, Miguel Osuna, decided when the flooding started to go to a nearby warehouse where a team of masons had parked their cars, so as not to be hit by the DANA. When the flooding began to get worse, he ran to a road next to the ship for shelter.
“Within a minute the water came and When I turned around, the cars were floating», he tells this newspaper. The flood was four meters high.
Francisco Muñoz has lived in this region for two decades and explains that Every ten years, the Guadalhorce River overflowswith catastrophic consequences. Although he lives in an elevated area, several of his neighbors had to be rescued. DANA mainly affected Cártama, Pizarra and Álora.
Francisco Muñoz has lived in the affected area for 20 years
Malaga is yellow alertat least until noon. Cádiz and the Seville capital, for their part, are on orange alert. The storm began Monday evening in El Ejido, destroying cars and leaving a desolate panorama due to hail. From there it jumped to Granada and Malaga, and is now approaching Cádiz.
