• 3 weeks ago
Spain was soaked in its wettest October on record last month which culminated in catastrophic floods that have killed 219 people and left dozens missing, the government said on Friday. The rain has now hit the coastal city of Cadaques, details by France 2 and Charlotte Hughes.
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00:00The streets of Cadaqués, in north-eastern Spain, transformed into rivers.
00:06On Friday, heavy rains pounded the area.
00:08One hundred millimetres fell in a matter of hours in two other towns nearby.
00:14Residents have been left shaken.
00:18It happened at around 4am and around 5am I saw that my car had been completely destroyed.
00:25Around 30 cars were swept away in the town, barely more than a week after deadly floods
00:29struck Spain's Valencia region.
00:32It's not our car but we're unhappy and also for business owners whose shops were flooded
00:36too, there's some damage.
00:40Shopkeepers are cleaning up the aftermath.
00:41This woman says she's avoided the worst.
00:46It wasn't that bad.
00:49But if the water in the sea had risen that high, it could have been much more serious.
00:57The floods did not claim any lives.
01:00According to Spain's weather agency, the country received 72% more rainfall in recent weeks
01:05than the normal value for the period, which experts put down to climate change.

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