Bad weather: Alentejo registers 254 occurrences until 20:00

Um total of 254 occurrences related to bad weather, especially falls of trees and structures and floods, was registered today in the Alentejo region, indicated the sub-regional commands of Civil Protection.

In the district of Portalegre, he referred to the agency Lusa source of the Subregional Emergency and Civil Protection Command of the Alto Alentejo, were counted, between 00:00 and 20:00, 70 occurrences, a little throughout the territory.

Of the total occurrences, 37 floods were recorded, six falls of trees and four of structures, 14 mass movements and nine road cleanings, needed the same source.

In Alentejo and the same period, according to the source of that sub-regional command, there were 61 episodes, distributed by the municipalities Alcácer do Sal, Grândola, Odemira, Santiago do Cacém and Sines.

The same source indicated that 33 falls of trees, 16 floods, four falls of structures, three situations of damage in electrical supply network, three road cleanings and danger signaling, a fire in equipment and a mass movement.

According to the Sub-regional Emergency and Civil Protection Command of the Central Alentejo, bad weather caused 44 occurrences in the district of Évora, of which 30 floods (26 on roads), five falls of trees and four mobile structures, four mass movements and a clean track.

In this district, the municipality of Évora was the most affected, but there were also occurrences in Arraiolos, Montemor-o-Novo and Estremoz, said.

In Lower Alentejo, he highlighted to Lusa source of that sub-regional command, Civil Protection agents had to help 73 situations, namely 23 floods in houses and roads, 29 falls of trees and nine road cleanings.

Three falls of built structures, two discharges, three damage to electrical networks, three cuts or removal of elements in danger of falling and a fall of temporary structure were the other occurrences.

These occurrences were recorded in the municipalities of Beja, Moura, Serpa, Ferreira do Alentejo, Aljustrel, Vidigueira, Castro Verde, Ourique, Almodovar, Mértola and Alvito.

The various subregional commands of Alentejo, which indicated that the situations recorded were not serious, also had no information, until 8 p.m., on the existence of victims or displaced persons in the region.

Only in Alcácer do Sal, in the district of Setúbal, as early as Tuesday, 10 residents of the neighborhood of Graça were advised to leave their homes as a precaution, due to the instability of a castle slope, second source of the chamber.

The depression Charles, which motivated the activation of the alert situation throughout the territory of mainland Portugal from 00:00 to 11:59 p.m. today, lost power during the morning and divided into two cores of low pressure, one toward Lisbon and the other to the Algarve, the only region to maintain, in the middle of the afternoon, red weather warnings due to rain and wind, however disabled.

The National Emergency and Civil Protection Authority recorded more than 1,600 occurrences related to bad weather on the continent, especially floods, falls of trees and collapses, while in Madeira, the first region to suffer the effects of the storm, there were more than 300.

Close to two dozen people had to be relocated due to damage to their homes, but there is no record of victims.

In addition to closing schools and non-essential public services, bad weather motivated the cancellation of a few hundred flights and the cutting of roads.