The storm leaves a missing and numerous road problems | Spain

The heavy rains and snowfall that have ravaged Spain this Sunday, which caused a dozen of communities remained on yellow and orange alert Throughout the day, they have left a missing person in Lorca (Murcia) and have caused cuts and problems on numerous roads. Emergency services have intensified their efforts to the storm and have issued notices to the population to “extreme surveillance and security”, also throughout this week, where more rainfall is expected in several parts of the country.

The most tragic episode has been registered in Lorca (98,000 inhabitants). Entrance and on Sunday night, the Civil Guard members were still looking for the body of a 50 -year -old farmer, a neighbor of the Ramonete Hermitage, which was dragged by the current after the overflow of the Rambla de Ramonete, in that municipality. To try to locate it, the Armed Institute has deployed several citizen security patrols; Already members of the Maritime Service at sea, at the mouth of the Rambla, he reported.

The mayor of Lorca, Fulgencio Gil, explained to RTVE that the missing tried to cross the Rambla about 16.00 this Sunday along a dirt road and « the water wave took » the car he was driving. “At first it seemed that the body was under the van in La Rambla. But, when the emergency services have moved the vehicle, it was not below, ”said the councilor, who has called the neighbors to prudence in the face of rainfall that is also expected for this Monday. « It is not frequent in this area that is so many days raining, » he added.

The authorities of Murcia have also sent a message through the ES-Alert system to all residents in the Rambla del Albujón area, in the minor Cartagena-Mar Campo, to ask that displacements are avoided, since the Rambla was also about to overflow.

In other parts of the Peninsula, the winter episode has caused problems on numerous roads, and has forced to activate the winter and road inclement planning plan in some locations. The General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) has encrypted in 33 the roads of its network – all they secondary – affected by the storm. The agency has especially set attention in Teruel, where a good part of the difficulties have been concentrated: the DGT has announced that there were nine affected roads there and the surroundings of Santa Eulalia was totally impassable for trucks and articulated vehicles.

The Junta de Castilla y León, the community most affected by the snowfall, has deployed its quotaniew machines. In Navarra it has mobilized to a preventive device of 54 quotanieves equipment. In the Canary Islands, the Cabildo de Tenerife has closed to traffic the accesses to the Teide National Park for Hope (TF-24) and La Orotava (TF-21) for the presence of ice plates on the road. The forecasts also pointed to an important drop in the temperatures and strong winds and waves of up to three meters throughout the Mediterranean coast.