![]() A dozen other individuals were rescued from homes and fields by the local firefighting service. In Ulldecona, a village located further inland, 500 people had to be evacuated from an industrial park after access roads were cut off by the rain. The fence separating the campsite from the adjacent road gave way and the water flowed inside, taking two cars and “the odd caravan” out to sea. Facility director Mario Gianni Masià said he had “never, ever, ever seen anything like it, the fury of the waters was striking.” Masià added that the rain began suddenly and intensely, and kept on falling. Serious damage to property was also reported at a campsite named Els Alfacs, located south of Sant Carles de la Ràpita, in Tarragona province. On Wednesday the town recorded rainfall of 252mm in three hours, more than half what this location normally gets in an entire year. In the small coastal town of Alcanar (population 9,300), record precipitation caused flash floods that dragged vehicles out to sea. The heavy rain triggered flash floods on city streets and damaged ground-floor properties in municipalities of the Montsià and Baix Ebre areas of Tarragona province. In Catalonia, weather stations recorded rainfall of 77mm in just 30 minutes. ![]() Els Alfacs campsite in Tarragona was severely affected by the rain. At 5pm, the railway company Renfe was reporting interruptions on the high-speed Madrid-Toledo line between the stations of La Sagra and Toledo, as well as additional disruptions on the Tarancón-Huete line (between Aranjuez and Cuenca) and the Teruel-Zaragoza line (at Cariñena). Train services were still affected on Thursday. ![]() Two German tourists, ages 23 and 25, drowned after going swimming late at night in dangerous water conditions in Cala Mandia, part of the municipality of Manacor on the island of Mallorca. On Thursday, parts of mainland Spain as well as the Balearic Islands were on the national weather agency Aemet’s yellow alert level for rain and thunderstorms. The provinces of Tarragona, Castellón and Toledo were particularly affected by the storms, while in Madrid the rising waters flooded homes and created significant traffic disruption. Heavy rainfall on Wednesday caused flooding in parts of central and eastern Spain. ![]()
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