Rainfall forces students to be evicted from prefabricated classrooms in Los Alcázares for the second time and causes flooding
The youngest schoolchildren were yesterday the main affected by the precariousness of the prefabricated classrooms, which was made clear by the intense rain recorded in Los Alcázares. After an early morning in which more than 50 liters per square meter fell in the coastal municipality, which reached 90 liters in the urban center area, the barracks, which the Ministry of Education has installed in response to the overcrowding of three centers schools of the municipality, were filled with leaks. The water entered the barracks of the IES Antonio Menárguez and the Al Kazar and Bienvenido Conejero schools.
In the Al Kazar school, they had to evict the 4 and 5-year-old students from the four booths, after the teachers tried to maintain normality by installing basins to collect the water. “Water has already entered with the rains two weeks ago, they had to remove the students and supposedly sealed the classrooms,” explains the president of the association of parents of students, Ana Vela. “Mr. Pellicer says that those classrooms are very good. Bring your children, “he appeals to the general director of Educational Centers.
Critical points
At the IES Antonio Menárguez Costa, the students had to endure the downpour inside the barracks, since “we have nowhere to put them,” the center’s director, Ángel Gómez, explained yesterday. “We live with the leaks and the buckets that collect the water,” says the director, who has 8 prefabricated classrooms in his institute. With yesterday’s storm, the water also leaked into the center’s elevator and muddied the patio, where the students from the booths have to pass. The overcrowding that the center suffers, built for 400 students but already has 970 enrolled, is already unsustainable for teachers and students. “We do what we can, but the Ministry is not doing anything to alleviate the situation,” says the director, who has been in the center for more than 20 years.
In the Bienvenido Conejero, the oldest in the municipality, they had to move the students from the three barracks to a dry place. The prefabricated classrooms and the Rambla de la Maraña were the critical points of the rains yesterday in Los Alcázares. The boulevard once again transported millions of liters of water and mud towards the Mar Menor, blurring the beaches. In addition, there were some pockets of water on Libertad Avenue near Lo Sola, although the municipal brigades cleared grids to facilitate evacuation.
104.3 l/m2 in Albujón
The mouth of the Rambla del Albujón registered 104.3 liters per square meter accumulated in 24 hours due to heavy rains, according to data from the Automatic Hydrological Information Service (SAIH) of the Segura Hydrographic Confederation (CHS).
The storms had intense peaks in the area, which repeated images from just over a week ago, with drags and overflows. Specifically, the mouth reached 87.3 liters per square meter accumulated in just six hours and 45.6 liters in three.
Likewise, the SAIH of the CHS registered 26.4 liters in Pozo Estrecho; and 25.8 on the Benipila boulevard, in Los Patojos.
Next, the places that received more accumulated rainfall in the same period of time were Torre Pacheco, with 23.8 liters per square meter; Campo de Cartagena, with 22.3 liters; and La Maraña, in Balsicas, with 20.4.
The downpour leaves more than 70 interventions in the Community
The storm that yesterday mainly affected the southeast of the region also left a strong storm in the early afternoon in the capital. Specifically, Murcia exceeded 11 liters per square meter (11.6 l/m²) in just one hour, between 4:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m., with rain that came accompanied by strong winds and made it difficult for road traffic to move. The clouds that swept the Region and left floods and floods in the area of the Mar Menor and Cartagena were losing strength in the afternoon, but still caused various incidents in different parts of the Community. In total, the 112 Emergency Coordination service received from 4:00 a.m. this Thursday until 8:30 p.m. calls to alert of 72 issues related to this meteorological episode. The most affected municipality was Cartagena, with 43 incidents, followed by the municipality of Murcia, where the calls reported a dozen issues, Los Alcázares and La Unión. There was no regret for personal damage as in the rains of last September 26, which left a deceased in Javalí Viejo.
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