A man drowned in a car, a woman drifted into the sea
Severe storms hit the tourist island of Crete
Severe autumn storms killed at least two people on the Greek island of Crete over the weekend and caused extensive damage.
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Even the cars were swept away by the storm.
Already on Saturday, a 50-year-old man was swept into the car and drowned. It was only on Sunday that the missing 49-year-old could be recovered – she was submerged in the sea. Police and firefighters recorded countless calls from affected citizens and local electricity was cut off.
Video footage showed crowds of water and mud pouring through the narrow streets with great force, taking with them dozens of cars, garbage and even large rocks.
“It was the worst storm in the last 100 years,” Stavros Arnautakis, regional governor of Crete, told the Protothema news portal on Sunday. The daily Kathimerini wrote about a “biblical catastrophe”.
underwater airport
Geology professor Efthimios Likas explained on state radio that the flash floods caused by torrential rains were a reverse tsunami – they washed everything away. The storm erupted, especially in the area around the capital, Heraklion, Crete.
The city’s airport remained closed for hours on Saturday. Dozens of holiday planes had to divert to the city of Chania in western Crete as well as to the Athens airport because the runway at Heraklion was under water.
The situation calmed down on Sunday. According to meteorologists, the storm moved in a noticeably weak direction towards the southern coast of Turkey. (SDA)
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