Streets blocked by flooding.
Credit score: Ayuntamiento de Benalmadena.
Arroyo de la Miel sports activities corridor was transformed into a brief shelter for these affected by the flooding.
15 households from the San Marcos neighbourhood had been briefly ordered to depart their properties on Wednesday, November 13, the place an excessive danger of flash flooding threatened the low-lying buildings within the Bungalow Cristina urbanisation in south Benalmadena.
The urbanisation is positioned in the midst of a channel from the Arroyo de la Miel River. The native police and council determined that the zone was in excessive danger of flooding, and so to keep away from lack of life, they took the choice to request that neighbours within the path of a possible flood, to ‘voluntarily’ abandon their properties till the menace had handed.
Benalmadena households evacuated these below menace
As effectively, 9 homeless folks recognized to be within the space had been taken in for their very own safety within the sports activities corridor. It isn’t recognized if homeless folks have been provided extra everlasting lodging since.
To shelter the briefly displaced, lots of them households, they had been taken to the Arroyo de la Miel sports activities corridor which was specifically tailored to cater for them.
In parallel, a number of roads within the city needed to be reduce off resulting from giant accumulations of water throughout the heavy rains. These included Calle Camelia, Cañada del Lobo, Avenida Mare Nostrum, the roundabout in Avenida Cibeles, and Avenida Cuba. Fortunately, the flooding was not as unhealthy as predicted it is likely to be.