The storm ‘Daniel’, which has left at least 14 dead in Greece, Bulgaria and Türkiye, has arrived in Athens. streets turned into rivers people swept away by the current and several affected metro lines are the havoc that this storm is causing in the city.
At the moment, it is estimated that some 80 liters per square meter, and in the airport area they have already exceeded 100 square meters.
In the next few hours this storm is expected move to Libyawhere I could arrive on Sunday morning.
Storm ‘Daniel’ has also hit many towns in Greecewhich have woken up completely flooded and where three people have already died from the floods, in a meteorological phenomenon that the authorities describe as “unprecedented”.
The level of water has reached the roofs of the houses in the towns of Palamás and Metamorfosi, in the Karditsa region, in central Greece, where many of its 800 inhabitants have had to climb to the roofs to be safe.
“There are people who are trapped in their housesthe water level has exceeded a meter and a half”, the mayor of Palamás, Yorgos Sakelaríu, told the station Skai, who stated that “surely there are people who have drowned”.
The councilor has criticized the delay in the arrival of help. As reported by the public radio station ERT, the intervention of the Armed Forces and a special team of firefighters has been requested, as well as the intervention of helicopters to rescue trapped people.
The storm “Daniel”, the most extreme weather event ever recorded in the countrywith levels of precipitation never seen before, also continues to hit the Magnesia region, Trikala, the island of Euboea and the Sporades islands for the third consecutive day.
The Minister of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection, Vasilis Kikilias, has spoken of an “unprecedented” meteorological phenomenon, while he has described the damage to infrastructure as “enormous”. According to the National Meteorological Service, the heavy rains will persist until this afternoon, when the storm is expected to begin to subside.
Source: Lasexta

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