{"id":494987,"date":"2025-10-13T02:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T02:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/494987\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T02:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T02:03:14","slug":"floods-trap-people-in-cars-in-spains-catalonia-region-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/494987\/","title":{"rendered":"Floods trap people in cars in Spain’s Catalonia region"},"content":{"rendered":"

Catalonia’s Civil Protection agency urged residents in Tarragona’s Ebro Delta to stay indoors, as AEMET warned of 180mm (7in) of rain in 12 hours in the area. <\/p>\n

“The situation is complicated, and more rain is forecast,” Cristina Vicente, a senior official at the agency, was quoted as saying by the La Vanguardia newspaper.<\/p>\n

Train departures from the cities of Barcelona and Valencia, in the neighbouring Valencia region, have been suspended until further notice along the mainly coastal Mediterranean Corridor.<\/p>\n

Several regions in south-eastern Spain – including the Balearic Islands – have in recent days been battered by heavy rains and flooding.<\/p>\n

The severe weather has been driven by Storm Alice<\/a> in the western Mediterranean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Catalonia’s Civil Protection agency urged residents in Tarragona’s Ebro Delta to stay indoors, as AEMET warned of 180mm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-494987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115364403889030147","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}