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Different cities of Catalonia especially on the coast have been victims of floods in the night of Tuesday 22 to Wednesday 23 October 2019.

The most affected cities are around Tarragona, including Tarragona itself, especially Salou and Cambrils from where images of impressive water arrivals arrive.

The rain started falling from 5am on Tuesday 22nd October and did not stop at night.

3 people have disappeared, including 2 in Vilaverd (Tarragona), a mother and her child and a 70-year-old retired in Arenys de Munt (Barcelona).

Another died Tuesday night in a serious car accident in Maçanet de la Selva (Gerona) on the AP7, it involved no less than 6 vehicles, other passenger cars are injured.

Cambrils is one of the most affected city of Catalonia

Streets are flooded in Cambrils and the police ask residents to stay at their homes with the weather in addition which continues to bring heavy rainfall. The usually calm Alforja River is literally overflowing with a rarely seen flow.

The AP7 was even cut off and between Vilsa Seca and Cambrils and the cars diverted to the A7.

Drivers have even had to be evacuated from their vehicles which could no longer circulate being taken under water.

A bridge even collapsed in the city of Cambrils without doing any additional damage fortunately.

also flood in Barcelona

The Barcelona metro is disrupted especially line 1 because the water has infiltrated between the stations Espanya and Glories where the traffic is totally interrupted this Wednesday morning. The traffic returned on line 3 after strong disturbances as well as on line 9 of the Barcelona subway.

Also in the region of Barcelona, north in the land specifically in Gualba at the height of Lloret de Mar was destroyed by a tornado.

The rodalias (train) of Barcelona have a difficult traffic this Wednesday morning of October 23, 2019 almost everywhere, a catenary even fell due to strong gusts of winds in the Catalan region.

Lot of others !

Other cities were affected reports the civil protection of which Els Alfacs (record of precipitations that night), Tivissa, Amposta, Ametlla de Mar, el Masroig, Toroella de Montgri, Mount roig del camp, Torroella de Fluvia, Illa de Buda, Ulldemolins, Falset, Benissanet for those with the most rain in the night and in the order of amounts of rainfall.

In Salou the organizers must be feverish when organizing the Rally of Spain which is to be held from Thursday 24 October and last until Sunday 27 October.

French side of heavy rains fell particularly in the region of Beziers and Perpignan, road traffic is highly disturbed Perpignan and Figueras.

Courage to those who will find damages this morning and who are still in the rain with this October weather that reminds that the Autumn is unfortunately synonymous with bad weather sometimes very serious, even in Spain.

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The tour operator Thomas Cook in bankruptcy will actually cause the closure of 500 hotels throughout Spain, many of which are located on the Balearic Islands and especially in the Canary Islands.

Of the 500 hotels owned by the incumbent operator, 100 hotels had a clientele exclusively from Thomas Cook.

For the other 400 hotels the situation will be more or less serious because according to the Spanish confederation of the hotel, these had between 30 and 70% of customers coming from Thomas Cook.

Baleares and Canaries the most affected destinations

There are no secrets: the Balearic and Canary Islands are going to be hit hard with a risk of closing 40% of the settlements on all the islands which is huge for the economy of the islands which are largely dependent on tourism.

Then comes the Costa del Sol (Malaga, Torremolinos) of which 20% of hotels are concerned with far behind Catalonia and the Valencian Community which have only about 10%.

Airplane connections to the Canaries in danger

Ryanair plans to close two of its air bases in the Canary Islands because of a significant risk of falling passengers and this from the beginning of January 2020.

Emergency plan for tourism in Spain

The tourism industry will ask for emergency aid to the Spanish government to stay afloat with credits and decreases or even more.

Indeed there is a real urgency because the tour operator paid late which leads to dizzying amounts of activity throughout the summer. Moreover the big tourist season must begin in this month of October in the Canary Islands.

And especially keep airlines present in the islands otherwise tourism could collapse and jobs related to tourism as well.

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