The alert for the expected heavy rains this Tuesday throughout the Valencian Community and a good part of the east of the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands It has already led some Valencian city councils to take the first measures, such as suspending classes or closing parks, gardens or sports facilities to avoid greater evils.
The town councils of Elche, Santa Pola and Crevillent (Alicante)in the Baix Vinalopó region, have decided to suspend classes in the educational centers of their municipalities for this Tuesday before the alert for heavy rains decreed by the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET). In the case of the province of Valencia, the town Naquera has decreed the suspension of classes at the CEIP Emilio Lluch and at the nursery school and has also done so Engueraaccording to Levante-EMV.
The first three municipalities have communicated their decision to the Department of Education, according to sources from this department. When faced with episodes of this type, the mayors of each locality who make the decision whether or not to suspend classes. The town councils prepare a communication in which they collect the measures to follow and communicate it to the management of the centers and the territorial directorates of Education, according to these sources.
According to the Emergency Coordination Center, the province of Castellón is on yellow alert for rains and storms; orange throughout the interior of the province of Valencia. Heavy, extensive and widespread rainfall and storms accompanied by probable hail are expected. QAccumulated rainfall can be reached in one hour of 40 l/m2 and in 12 hours of 100 l/m2.
Given this situation, the Elche town council explained in a statement that the decision was made this Monday afternoon “urgently” given the evolution of the meteorological situation, after a meeting between the mayor, Pablo Ruz, and emergency technicians, the Police. Local, Civil Protection and Firefighters, as well as personnel from the areas of Public Roads, Education and Parks and Gardens.
In Elche, the measure will affect public and private centers, which include nursery, primary and secondary schools, the music conservatory, adult schools, the Official Language School (EOI) or the UNED associated center.
Neither parks nor market
The suspension also affects municipal sports facilities, both indoors and outdoors. City Hall will also close this Tuesday the parks, the flower stand at the Virgen de la Asunción cemetery and the San Plácido Palmeral Museum. Likewise, it has canceled a farmers market planned in La Marina.
For its part, the City Council of Santa Pola has reported the same decision early this Monday afternoon, in a publication on social networks and to “preserve the safety of citizens.” Thus, it is agreed to close educational centers, sports facilities and parks and gardens throughout the day on October 29.”
Furthermore, the mayor of CrevillentLourdes Aznar, has issued a statement to inform citizens of the measures adopted “to avoid the negative consequences that the rainy episode could cause,” given the uncertainty and the possibility that the pre-emergency level changes to orange, as has already happened in neighboring areas,” the council explained in a statement.
The Crevillent City Council has detailed that the Emergency Advisory Committee has communicated other actions that are adopted to guarantee safety, such as the review of all the municipality’s scuppers – something that has been done, according to the council, since Friday. — to check that they are not clogged; the clearing of Barranc Sendra, located at the entrance to the municipality from Elche; and work on Rambla Castelar, at the exit towards Albatera, and the Barranc d’Amorós, from San Antonio de la Florida to Violín street.
The council recommends that the population refrain from doing any type of sport in the Sierra de Crevillent during the time that the storm warning is activated.
Universities
On the other hand, the University of Valencia (UV) has declared emergency level 1 as of this Monday at 2:00 p.m. In this emergency situation, they have indicated in a statement published on their website, “non-attendance at activities that involve attendance control, including exams, will not be detrimental” to the academic performance of students, when circumstances arise that “justifiably prevent the movement of students to the campuses”.
Therefore, they have pointed out, the scheduled exams will not be suspended, but those people who cannot attend the call for these justified reasons will take the exam on an alternative date.
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