Travel in and around Barcelona is a soggy mess after heavy flooding slammed into the city’s main airport and shuttered vital train service in the region.
Flight Aware reports 99 flights were cancelled in and out of BCN on 04NOV after 150mm of rain accumulated in just four hours at one of Europe’s busiest airports.
The Daily Mail reports that torrential rain also sparked a red alert warning across the Spanish city, an alert that comes just days after more than 200 were killed in devastating floods in Valencia.
Passengers in social media posts were seen wading through pools of water in BCN terminals.
The CBC said one Canadian in Spain described the flood damage as “sheer carnage.” The man said he had to walk 12 km’s after his car was destroyed in the flooding, and said he witnessed scenes that were “absolutely devastating.”
Spanish Transport Minister Óscar Puente said he was suspending all commuter trains in northeast Catalonia, a region with 8 million people, at the request of civil protection officials, Associated Press reports. Several area highways also have been closed, further adding to the region’s travel misery.
