A device composed Local police and members of the Association of Civil Protection of Totana intervened in the work of monitoring and alerting locals to the rainstorm that hit near the town Espuña and a short space of time.
This device was launched with a call made by the local police in the nearby town of Aledo, warning of the downpour.
Also activated a surveillance device the most plentiful in the vicinity of the Espuña, La Santa and Aledo, placing "warning visibility trenches" so that no crossing in those areas.
According to data provided by Civil Protection, the water began to fall on a quarter to five to seven-thirty in the afternoon, registering a time around 50 liters per square meter, and in the evening there were around 60 liters square meter.
The Meteorological Agency has established a yellow alert for today, which corresponds even lower risk of rains but Totana Civil Protection to the instability of the storm, Civil Protection recommends Totana neighbors these days do not park vehicles or traversing the boulevards of the town and advised that Unlock the drains of the houses to prevent flooding.
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Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana