'I've never seen it advacing this far', says resident after floods ravage Spanish town

Record ID: 1650828

  • Title: 'I've never seen it advacing this far', says resident after floods ravage Spanish town
  • Date: 12th December 2021
  • Summary: TUDELA, SPAIN (DECEMBER 12, 2021) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PANORAMIC VIEWS OF FLOODS AROUND TUDELA VARIOUS OF POLICE STANDING ON FLOODED STREET FLOODED STREET FLOOD WATER ON ROAD VARIOUS WOMAN AND CHILD WALKING ON A PLANK OVER FLOODED STREET WATER FLOWING FROM PIPE USED TO EJECT WATER FROM FLOODED BUILDING PEOPLE STANDING BY FLOODED STREET LOCAL RESIDENT, EMILIO GARRIDO, 72, TALKING ON PHONE RUBBER BOOTS (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) LOCAL RESIDENT, EMILIO GARRIDO, 72, SAYING: I've never seen it (flood water) advancing this far in my life, look at it now. The furthest it had ever reached was around that bridge over there and now it's here and we are using the pumps over there." GARRIDO AND OTHERS IN THE BUILDING CAR PARK AND HOSES FROM WATER PUMPS IN THE FOREGROUND VARIOUS OF GARRIDO WADING THROUGH FLOOD WATER IN UNDERGROUND CAR PARK ANOTHER FLOODED BUILDING VARIOUS OF FULL EBRO RIVER FLOWING UNDER BRIDGE VARIOUS OF EBRO RIVER PARTIALLY SUBMERGING TREES EMERGENCY SERVICE TEAM TRAVELLING ON RUBBER BOAT IN FLOODED STREET VARIOUS OF ANOTHER EMERGENCY TEAM ON A RUBBER BOAT IN A FLOODED STREET OF TUDELA'S OLD TOWN TWO MEN CHATTING NEXT TO A FLOODED STREET FLOODED STREET VARIOUS OF PANORAMIC VIEWS OF FLOODED AREAS AROUND HOMES TIMELAPSE OF RIVER EBRO FLOWING (MUTE)
  • Embargoed: 26th December 2021 17:01
  • Keywords: Aragon Storm Barra Tudela floods nortern Spain floods northern Spain
  • Location: TUDELA, SPAIN
  • City: TUDELA, SPAIN
  • Country: Spain
  • Topics: Disaster/Accidents,Europe,Floods
  • Reuters ID: LVA001F7QFOLJ
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Residents of Tudela in Spain's northeastern region of Aragon assessed the damage caused by serious flooding after Ebro River burst its banks on Sunday (December 12).
    Storm Barra has been causing havoc in northern Spain this week, flooding homes and submerging cars in flood waters.
    Tudela resident, Emilio Garrido, 72, said floods had never reached his building in his lifetime, as he surveyed the damage in an underground car park with his neighbours.
    Two people have been killed since the severe weather hit Spain's northern regions, police confirmed.
    Spanish broadcaster TVE said River Ebro had reached a depth of 6.18 meters on Sunday, however by the evening, as the rain had stopped, the levels were decreasing.
    Spain's emergency military unit deployed 292 troops, 102 vehicles and a helicopter to Novillas on Saturday (December 11), the state broadcaster RTVE said on its website, as part of the emergency operation.
    The Ebro River is expected to reach its highest point in Novillo on Sunday night, authorities said.
    Heavy rain from Storm Barra has affected the regions of Castille and Leon, and the Basque Country in addition to Navarre and Aragon, where dozens of people have had to be evacuated.
    (Production: Horaci Garcia, Albert Gea, Catherine Macdonald)
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