A strong storm has caused severe flooding in Cadaqués during the early hours of this morning. The heavy rains that lashed the Empordà region, and that usually drain strongly into the sea, flooded this time the town, dragging dozens of cars.
The emergency services have been working to assess the damage and help the affected residents and there do not seem to be any missing or dead people. However, about thirty cars have been swept away and have been piled up under a bridge, without reaching the sea.
Beyond these cars, there is not much alert in the municipality. Although the floods this morning have been somewhat more intense than usual, the truth is that it is common for the creek to flood after episodes of rain.
The mayor of the municipality, Pia Serinyana, explained that in Cadaqués “it has not rained so much”, but that the heavy rains have focused on the Pení, the mountain next to the municipality, so the discharge has been overwhelmed with the stream of the white people.
Some reports indicate that no prior warnings were issued about the meteorological phenomenon, but, for her part, the mayor says, in a report in El Mundo, that they had the alert from Cecat (Operational Coordination Center of Catalonia) and had already warned that parking in the area was prohibited, but that some residents parked their cars in the stream anyway.
Civil Protection maintains activated the pre-alert of the emergency plan for floods, the Inuncat, in the Alt and Baix Empordà, by accumulation of rain, which can reach 100 liters per square meter in 24 hours.