He President of the Government of Andalusia, Juanma Moreno, insisted this Thursday to call for “caution” from the Andalusian population, particularly in the provinces of Cádiz or Seville, before the persistence of DANA which affected this week to several autonomous communities, while explaining that the Andalusian Government “waits to quantify the damage” caused by this storm, “in particular in the road network”, for the repair of which the Authority plans to devote “contingency funds”.
This is what the Andalusian president underlined in a media address after participate in a minute of silence summoned before the Andalusian Government Delegation in Malaga by the victims of the storm.
Juanma Moreno recalled that this Thursday it is planned to send the orange level warnings of the National Meteorological Agency (Aemet) still in force – currently, only in the province of Cádiz in the case of Andalusia -, and will remain at the yellow level in the same territoryas well as in the provinces of Seville and Huelva.
“Once the orange notice disappears, it seems that the situation calms downconcentrates in the most western provinces” of Andalusia, explained the President of the Council, who confirmed that, “according to the information provided by Aemet, throughout today – this Thursday – and tomorrow – this Friday – the storm will probably “be concentrated in the province of Huelva”, where there would only be a “risk of more intense rains”.
DANA withdraws from Andalusia
In the same sense, Juanma Moreno indicated that “everything seems to indicate that DANA is withdrawing from Andalusia”, even if she added that the Junta would “Be very aware of what is happening throughout these days, especially until Saturday“, because, “if everything evolves in a reasonable manner, throughout the weekend, Saturday and Sunday, practically all of Andalusia would experience a normal situation” in terms of precipitation, he said.
However, the President of the Commission warned that “in the province of Cádiz it rained in high areas”, which “This means that many streams and streams that come down will grow.“in its flows” over the next few hours, “this is therefore not the time to approach a stream, a canal, however dry it may seem, or a river,” he said. continued Moreno, because his flow rate may have increased “because It rained 60 or 70 kilometers higher“.
It is for this reason that the Andalusian president called to “caution above all” in the areas of the provinces of Cádiz and Seville most affected, and added that “we hope, we wish and we want to have confidence” that “over the next few hours things will calm down” and “return to that normality.”
Damage assessment
Moreno also indicated that the Commission “waits to quantify the damage” and the Development, Territorial Articulation and Housing advisors, Rocío Díaz, and Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development, Ramón Fernández-Pacheco, visited “different points of Andalusian geography, notably in the provinces of Almería, Seville, Cádiz, Málaga and Granada, to see what damage is being caused, particularly in the road network” and “things that need to be repaired urgently”.
“From the Andalusian Government, through the contingency funds, we will make an effort with the provincial councilss”, promised Juanma Moreno, before adding that he is also waiting to see “the resources that the State makes available so that together we can help these people and, above all, this part of the transport network and of communication which was seriously affected by this storm.
Regardless, the president emphasized that, if we compare the situation in Andalusia to that experienced by the Valencian Community, “It must be said that in Andalusia we were very luckybecause this type of natural disasters can occur anywhere and at any time”, and “when it rains more than 150 liters per square meter in a few hours, no infrastructure can withstand it, and even more so when It rains almost 500 liters, as happened in Valencia», underlined Juanma Moreno to conclude.
