La Dana continues to hit hard to the south of the Valencian Community and keeps the provinces of Alicante and Valencia on high alert due to the high risk of torrential rains. Ontinyent and Orihuela were very affected yesterday by the first episode of this cold drop that caused serious flooding and left the capital of the Vega Baja incommunicado.

In fact, Orihuela remains in the spotlight by the warning of the Segura Hydrographic Confederation that the Segura river has overflowed its way through the city in the early morning, by the accumulation of water dropped yesterday in Las Vegas middle and high of the Region of Murcia.

Since the beginning of this episode of cold droplet, Orihuela has collected about 300 liters per square meter, when the usual annual average is around 260 .

Municipal sources have reported that evictions will begin in the riverbank areas, with particular risk in the Molins area and at the height of the San Pedro neighborhood.

During the past night it has continued raining in Orihuela constantly but now it does it again with force.

Crashed roads, landslides and evictions caused the battalions of Valencia and Seville of the Military Emergency Unit (UME), with 178 soldiers and 76 vehicles, to travel with the local authorities especially in the rescue of trapped people .

There has been the eviction of the residents of the Oriol Occupational Center (25 people), as well as 45 residents of the district of El Badén, and the rescue of about 130 people who were trapped in the Puente Alto Industrial Estate and in the district of The Escorratel. In the provisional shelter enabled in the Virgen de la Puerta school, 65 people have spent the night.

The districts most affected by this storm have been El Badén, La Campaneta, La Matanza, La Aparecida and Raiguero de Bonanza.

The underground passages , the Rambla de Campoamor and Playa de La Glea remain closed in the coastal zone.

In the city center, the most affected areas have been the neighborhoods around the Monte de San Miguel Belt and the Palmeral environment.

The accesses of the city remain closed much of the day of this Thursday, as well as streets, paths and roads that have been flooded by heavy rains. The storm of the Dana has left in its path about 300 liters per square meters in Orihuela.

536,000 students without class

132 municipalities have decreed today the suspension of classes for the forecast of torrential rains, 45 of the province of Valencia, including the capital, Province of Valencia, 5 in Castellón and 82 in Alicante.

Regarding infrastructure, Renfe has suspended circulation on the Xativa and Alcoy lines and the port of Sagunto is closed again.

The forecast is that the Dana travels again the Community from south to north and enters the province of Valencia throughout the morning and is expected to leave a minimum of 90 liters per square meter in several areas, being the forecast that especially affects the Ribera Alta and Baja and La Costera.

Married in Ontinyent

The leader of the Popular Party, Pablo Casado , will travel this Friday Ontinyent to know the state of this Valencian town after the cold drop, a visit in which he will be accompanied by the president of the party in the Community, Isabel Bonig .

The cold drop has caused torrential rains and floods in the Valencian Community. In fact, this storm has caused the Clariano and Cànyoles rivers to overflow as they pass through the municipalities of Ontinyent and Moixent.

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