Torrential rain blocks roads, causes power cuts and severs water supplies
Four days of cataclysmic rain have lashed the central Greek region of Thessaly, triggering landslides, road and bridge collapses and severing water supplies.and Turkey.
Emergency services were using divers, lifeboats and at least one Super Puma helicopter to reach stranded people. He said that although cyclone Ianos, a medicane that hit central Greece in 2020, wreaked severe damage, he had never seen torrential rainfall like this. “There were some [human-made] issues – riverbeds blocked and not cleared, some local works haven’t been done in years. But even then, the rain has been too excessive to handle. Houses and businesses are flooded and destroyed. And this comes after we’ve only been open for business for [a couple] of years after lockdown.
Bianca Stangaciu, a nurse in Volos, who was on call as the emergency unfolded, was particularly concerned about the region’s elderly people. “We may have an influx of older patients who have been without running water, power and food for days,” Stangaciu, 35, said.Photograph: Yiannis Pagonarisare being housed in the hospital after a wing collapsed because of the storm. The basement of Volos general hospital flooded on Tuesday, with firefighters deployed to pump out water.
Stangaciu said she felt a great deal of anxiety about the climate. “The heatwaves are getting longer each year and now this. The whole situation is changing – the years to come will be challenging.”
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