Floods close major roads in Tarragona
Sunday, June 14, 2015 @ 5:38 PM
FLASH floods affecting the north of Spain have caused chaos in the province of Tarragona, in southern Catalunya this time with over 270 calls to emergency services made in the early hours of the morning.
Nearly two inches of rain, or 43.4 litres per square metre – enough to cause damage to a properly built and maintained home in the eyes of household insurance claims departments – caused road-blocks on main highways throughout the province.
The T-721 was closed between La Pobla de Mafumet and Constantí, and the N-340a in Canona and Campclar were shut to traffic.
Tarragona city's C/ Pere Martell was flooded in the Serrallo bridge area, rendering it impassible, as was the tunnel leading to a shopping centre between the A-7 motorway and the T-11 in the north-west of the metropolitan area.
Lightning caused a fire in an area of bamboo canes next to the Constantí natural gas pump station, leading to a huge conflagration.
Luckily, the blaze was some distance from the nearest homes and the only damage was to scrubland and the pump station itself.
Emergency services have contacted the gas company and other firms in the same chemical factory industrial estate to ask them to check their installations for possible explosion risk.
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