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An early morning like those that are not remembered, with the effects of DANA as the main argument of the story. A lot of water and a lightning storm seldom faced (more than 5,000 according to the Storm Málaga portal) in a cocktail that caused a situation that adds to the already devastating effects of the cold drop that, for days, has plagued the southeast of the peninsula, and that has already claimed five deaths, two of them in Andalusia.

Rarely, the sky thundered as it did this past dawn in provinces such as Granada or Malaga. A situation that caused the State Meteorological Agency to activate, a few minutes before 4 in the morning, the red alert level (initially started in orange) in part of the interior of Malaga (Guadalhorce Valley) and the coast, including the capital.

Malaga, again affected

A province accustomed in recent years to important chapters of floods and unpleasant surprises in the meteorological plane, which did not escape, again, from a front that continues to wreak havoc at different points in the easternmost geography of Spain. To the already reported cases in the Valencian Community, the region of Murcia, or the provinces of Almería and Granada, the province of Malaga was added at dawn on Saturday, where the most prominent chapters of the storm occurred in Coín (112.2 liters per square meter), which became the highest rainfall recorded in Andalusia, according to data from the Hidrosur network.

Only in the capital of the Costa del Sol, more than 60 liters per square meter fell until five in the morning, which caused dozens of incidents, which required the performance of Fire and Local Police, with drivers trapped in streets where the Asphalt was several centimeters below the surface of the water, making rivers what are common traffic routes. In the neighborhood of Puerto de la Torre, rain and wind caused the detachment of part of the roof and the structure of the handball pavilion that the City Council has been doing for months.

Also noteworthy were the water inflows in low and garages , a situation that has not yet been quantified exactly.

Alhaurín El Grande, "a real chaos"

In the Guadalhorce Valley, the night leaves a multitude of waterlogged areas in towns such as Alhaurín el Grande, Alhaurín de la Torre, Cártama (more than 65 liters in one hour) or the mentioned Coín.

In the first of these municipalities, its mayor, Toñi Ledesma, has referred to the effects of the storm as a "total chaos ", which leaves "many damages that now can not be assessed," not only for water, but also by the hail that fell from the sky, with a size close to that of golf balls, which caused material damage to cars and homes.

At least a dozen cars, parked "in the lower areas" of Alhaurín el Grande were dragged by the current, leaving images that ran quickly through social networks, and reaching a point that caused that, according to the governor, "we are overwhelmed , trying to evaluate areas that we have not yet been able to access, "said Ledesma. The town continues with cut roads and some isolated areas, while assessing the damage left by several fallen walls or the breakage of a pipe in the hamlet of Villafranco del Guadalhorce.

Also areas of the Costa del Sol , such as Torremolinos or Marbella suffered, although less, the inclement weather, so that the Delegation of the Government of the Board in Malaga decided, at 6:00 in the morning to activate situation 1 of the Plan of Emergencies in the face of flood risk.

Shortly after, Granada

It also dawned, in addition, for the inhabitants of the province of Granada, towards which the isolated Depression moved hours later, to leave a cold drop print that, from 5 in the morning was a guideline in the Nasrid capital and its area metropolitan Thunderstorm, rain and hail, which were felt especially in places like La Zubia, or the northern part of the city, where several vehicles were trapped in various ways, while emergency services had to act in the fall of various Trees on the road.

Hail and lightning for an early morning difficult to forget, thus adding to what has already been suffered by the province on Friday, which left a deceased, whose body was found in a ravine and whose family had denounced, hours before, his disappearance before the National Police.

In summary, a night of tension and a multitude of incidents in localities such as the capital of Granada itself, or points such as Cúllar, Baza or Puebla de Don Fadrique.

The emergency service 112 of Andalusia has managed throughout the morning of Saturday up to 347 incidents due to rain, mostly in Malaga (208) and Granada (121).

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