Ávila This Friday has registered one of the worst floods of the last century, as highlighted by the mayor of the city, Jesús Manuel Sánchez Cabrera, who has decreed the state of emergency Due to the effects of the temporal, which affects a good part of the southern zone of the capital.
He Overflow of Adaja and Chico rivers As it passes through the south of this city, it has affected garages, low houses, businesses, streets, roads and public goods, such as the bullring, sports courts or the Adolfo Suárez Municipal Stadium. The water has flooded the southern zone of the capital of Abulense and the Urbanization Coto de Puente Viejo, in the municipality of Maello.
This situation has made necessary evacuation First thing in the morning of 41 children and 3 monitors of the Santa Teresa College of Jesús de San Juan de Aznalfarache, in Seville, who were housed in the residence of the House of Santa Teresa spirituality. It is there where there are still more than thirty religious, some of them of advanced age and with mobility problems.
Given this “extraordinary” reality, the councilor has traced to the year 1946 To find something similar, according to some testimonies of neighbors who remembered similar floods at that time. “This is one of Ávila’s worst floods in the last 100 years“Jesús Sánchez Cabrera, the mayor of the capital of the capital of the Abulense.
The alert began when around three in the morning, the riverbed began to rise and, consequently, to flood that part of the city. The same area that two weeks ago lived another flood of the Adaja and Tormes rivers, a rise that led to the Junta de Castilla y León in Ávila to declare level 1 of the Civil Protection Plan against the risk of flooding in the community.
Now, knowing that the affected area is broader and that forecasts announce more rain and thawthe territorial delegate, José Francisco Hernández, has declared at 6:00 a.m. level 2 of the Plan for Flood Risk.
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