{"id":9579,"date":"2024-10-30T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/30\/several-missing-as-flash-floods-sweep-cars-through-the-streets-in-spain\/"},"modified":"2024-10-30T15:19:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T15:19:00","slug":"several-missing-as-flash-floods-sweep-cars-through-the-streets-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/30\/several-missing-as-flash-floods-sweep-cars-through-the-streets-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Several missing as flash floods sweep cars through the streets in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several people have been reported missing after flash floods struck Spain, sweeping cars through the streets.<\/p>\n<p>Shocking images and videos have emerged from eastern and southern parts of Spain, showing heavy rainfall turning once-busy roads into muddy rivers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-component-name=\"sdc-site-outbrain\" data-target=\"\" data-widget-mapping=\"\" data-installation-keys=\"\">    <\/div>\n<p>Flooding caused havoc, running from the provinces of Malaga in the south to Valencia in the east.<\/p>\n<p>Videos shared by Spanish broadcasters showed floodwater rising into the lower levels of homes and even carrying cars through the street.<\/p>\n<p>A high-speed train with almost 300 people on board was derailed near Malaga, but authorities said no one was hurt.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>Rail lines elsewhere were also disrupted.<\/p>\n<p>The national government office for the Castilla La Mancha region told radio channel Cadena Ser that six people in the region were missing.<\/p>\n<p>One truck driver was missing in L&#8217;Alcudia, Valencia, according to Spanish news agency EFE.<\/p>\n<p>Also in Valencia, the mayor of Utiel, Ricardo Gabaldon, told RTVE that several people were trapped in their homes.<\/p>\n<p>In Letur, near the Sierra de Segura, thirty people were trapped after the river running through the town burst its banks.<\/p>\n<p>In some places, rescue services used helicopters to lift people from houses and cars to safety.<\/p>\n<p>Storms are forecast to continue through the week until Thursday, according to the country&#8217;s weather service.<\/p>\n<p>Spain has experienced similar autumn storms in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have warned that increased episodes of extreme weather, like flash floods, or the wildfires seen elsewhere in Europe in the summer, are likely linked to human-driven climate change.<\/p>\n<p> <strong> <\/strong>    <\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several people have been reported missing after flash floods struck Spain, sweeping cars through the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}