{"id":115283,"date":"2025-10-11T10:13:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T10:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/115283\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T10:13:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T10:13:15","slug":"alicante-floods-ahead-of-red-alert-weather-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/115283\/","title":{"rendered":"Alicante floods ahead of red alert weather warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TORRENTIAL rain has left Alicante under water after dry riverbeds flooded and streets turned into raging torrents.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Videos flooding social media show abandoned cars submerged in the Barranco del Juncaret and waves crashing across the Explanada de Espa\u00f1a, one of the city\u2019s most famous promenades.<\/p>\n<p>In the San Gabriel\u2013El Palmeral district, water swept into an aluminium factory, while residents described the scene terrifying.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">M\u00e1s de 50 l\/m\u00b2 en lo que llevamos de d\u00eda en algunos barrios de la ciudad de Alicante. <\/p>\n<p>Algunos anegamientos puntuales debido a la intensidad de la lluvia.<\/p>\n<p>? Salva Parada. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vdfMsjVbMI\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/vdfMsjVbMI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Climatolog\u00eda UA (@climatologia_ua) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/climatologia_ua\/status\/1976255391559483849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The city centre has also been hit, with drains overwhelmed and shopfronts submerged. One witness said: \u201cI thought the road itself was going to collapse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The chaos comes as Spain\u2019s national weather agency AEMET placed the southern Costa Blanca under a <strong>red alert<\/strong> for torrential rain on Friday, October 10, warning of extraordinary risk, flash floods and sudden river surges.<\/p>\n<p>The deluge follows the destructive DANA storm system that battered Valencia earlier this week, leaving debris still being swept away.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services are urging residents to stay indoors, avoid travelling, and follow all instructions from Protecci\u00f3n Civil.<\/p>\n<p>Click here to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theolivepress.es\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spain News<\/a> from The Olive Press.<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORRENTIAL rain has left Alicante under water after dry riverbeds flooded and streets turned into raging torrents. Videos&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,43702,43703,43704,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-115283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-news-spain","19":"tag-newspaper","20":"tag-the-olive-press","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories","23":"tag-world","24":"tag-world-news","25":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}