AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - Violent storms batter Spain's coast, leaving dozens injured and a tourist region in chaos
A series of freak storms hammered Spain's Mediterranean coast and the Balearic Islands over the weekend, collapsing a seafront wall onto beachgoers, flooding city streets waist-deep, and triggering mini-tsunamis that swamped harbors across Ibiza and Majorca. In Roda de Bera, a small coastal town about ninety minutes south of Barcelona, eleven people were injured in […] The post Violent storms batter Spain's coast, leaving dozens injured and a tourist region in chaos appeared first on American Almanac .
A series of freak storms hammered Spain's Mediterranean coast and the Balearic Islands over the weekend, collapsing a seafront wall onto beachgoers, flooding city streets waist-deep, and triggering mini-tsunamis that swamped harbors across Ibiza and Majorca. In Roda de Bera, a small coastal town about ninety minutes south of Barcelona, eleven people were injured in the early hours of Saturday morning when violent weather tore through the area. An 18-year-old woman was left fighting for her life after a seafront wall collapsed on top of her and two others. No update on her condition has been released. Hours later, a punishing afternoon storm struck the nearby port city of Tarragona, unleashing torrential rain and large hailstones that…Open