US EditionUPDATE 2-Portugal Floods Take Out Major Highway, Force Evacuation of 3,000 Residents | Science-Environment
Authorities evacuated 3,000 residents after a levee burst weakened the A1 motorway and damaged part of Coimbra's ancient city wall amid ongoing flooding.
- On Feb 11, part of Portugal's A1 highway collapsed after a levee broke underneath near Coimbra, prompting municipal authorities to evacuate about 3,000 residents to shelters.
- After weeks of storms since late January, an atmospheric river delivered concentrated tropical moisture and fresh downpours, fueling renewed flooding in central and southern Portugal.
- The Aguieira dam, 35 km northeast of Coimbra, faces overflow risk, and part of Coimbra's ancient city wall collapsed, closing the municipal market.
- At least 15 people have died amid the storms, while authorities removed around 30 people after a landslide in Caparica and evacuated the village of Porto Brandao.
- Prime Minister Luis Montenegro went to Coimbra to oversee the response after Interior Minister Maria Lucia Amaral resigned amid criticism, while Portugal's environment agency APA warned of peak Mondego flows through Saturday with police door-to-door checks and bussing to shelters ongoing.
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Portugal continues to add calamities to a long list that began two weeks ago, when the Kristin Boresca struck the center of the country. Since then 16 people have died from direct or indirect effects of the temporary ones, several of them under roofs that fell while trying to repair them. The breakup of a containment dam caused the overflow of the Mondego River in Coimbra, and destroyed the stretch of a viaduct of the A-1 motorway, the main arte…
One of the dikes on the Mondego River, near the medieval city of Coimbra, broke next to one of the pillars supporting the A1 highway, which connects Lisbon and Porto.
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The latest flooding follows successive storms since late January that have battered central and southern Portugal
Portugal floods take out major highway, force evacuation of 3,000 residents
COIMBRA, Portugal, Feb 11 - Part of Portugal's main motorway collapsed on Wednesday night after a levee broke underneath amid heavy rain and flooding that have been battering the country for weeks, as authorities evacuated about 3,000 residents in the northern area. Read more at straitstimes.com.
UPDATE 2-Portugal floods take out major highway, force evacuation of 3,000 residents | Science-Environment
One of the levees on the River Mondego near the medieval city of Coimbra burst next to one of the pillars sustaining the A1 highway that connects the cities of Lisbon and Porto, causing a gap to form in the road that had been shut by police earlier, said Coimbra Mayor Ana Abrunhosa. "Coimbra and surrounding towns have very serious problems due to floods, some are isolated...
The House of Coimbra took about 3,000 people out of its homes at full risk in Mondego, said last night the city president Ana Abrunhosa. “Globally, we are talking about 2,800 to 3,000 people who are residents, but many people have already gone out, they have been to [...]
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