Schools Closed and Roads Flooded as Severe Weather Hits Rhodes
Civil Protection urged residents and visitors to stay indoors as heavy rain swept cars away, while local officials closed schools for safety.
- On Monday, torrential rain battered the Greek island of Rhodes, unleashing severe flash flooding that swept away vehicles and turned streets into rivers, particularly in the municipal unit of Archangelos.
- Civil Protection authorities issued a 112 emergency message in the early hours of Monday, urging residents to limit movement and seek higher ground as the storm intensified across the region.
- Separately, heavy rainfall on Kalymnos caused a large boulder to crash into a garage in Agios Vasileios. Mayor Giannis Mastrokoukos said, "If the garage had not stopped it, below there is a cluster of houses."
- Emergency crews from the South Aegean Region and the Municipality of Rhodes mobilized immediately to remove swept-away vehicles, clean drains, and restore water flow in streams across affected road networks.
- Heavy rain and thunderstorms will persist in western Greece and the eastern Aegean through Tuesday, though meteorologists expect conditions to improve significantly beginning Wednesday.
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At least 60 vehicles swept away in Rhodes, Greece after 17 hours...
The damage caused by severe weather in the Archangelos area on the island of Rhodes is extensive, according to initial estimates, after torrents of floodwater swept away vehicles and inundated dozens of homes and businesses early on Monday. According to information obtained by the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA-MPA), at least 60 vehicles were swept away and damaged, while dozens of homes and commercial premises were flooded. The full extent …
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