Heavy Storms Cause Severe Damage - Spain

The Picadas pipeline split in half as a result of the DANA, on September 5, 2023, in Villamanta, Madrid (Spain). This pipeline supplies 270,000 people in 71 municipalities in the province of Toledo. The isolated depression in high atmospheric levels (DANA) that has passed this weekend by the Peninsula has left at least four people dead, three other people who remain missing, dozens of people evacuated from their homes, road closures, delays and cancellations of numerous railroad lines and air flights. It has also caused serious material damage for which many municipalities are already considering requesting the declaration of an area affected by a Civil Protection emergency. The Civil Guard continues with the search for the 83-year-old man swept away by the current in Villamanta and the middle-aged man swept away with his family by the Alberche river. Photo by Alejandro Martínez Vélez/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM