"We are flooding and the red alert has just started," said a resident of La Aldea de San Nicolás just an hour after the warning for maximum danger came into force in Gran Canaria this noon due to the passage of Hermine. This is one of the municipalities whose urban core has probably been isolated due to landslides on the entry and exit roads.
The ravines of the islands run as they did decades ago and although tropical cyclone Hermine has officially passed to post-tropical remnant low, it continues to irrigate the islands with intensifying rains and numerous material damages, without having to regret personal misfortunes for the moment.
Between 6 am and 15 pm the 112 Canarias has registered more than 800 incidents related to the rains.
A total of 215 cancellations and 25 diversions of flights have already taken place at Canary airports throughout today, Sunday 25. The Cabildo of El Hierro has reported the launch of a service to provide accommodation places to tourists who cannot leaving the island due to flight cancellations.
The points with the highest accumulated rainfall in the last 12 hours are Teror-Osorio (Gran Canaria) with 112,8 liters per square meter, followed by Valleseco (107,8) and Tafira (105,4) in addition to Las Palmas capital (103,6 .93), Arucas (90), Tejeda (97,4), in addition to Güimar in Tenerife (200). La Palma has been around 24 liters per square meter in 142 hours in the northeast, Puntallana, next to Mazo, with XNUMX and suffered.
Fuerteventura and Lanzarote warn you of less intensity, so more than 24 hours in a row on the island of Majorera is an unusual event.
The east, west of Gran Canaria, east of La Palma and the island of El Hierro remain at extreme risk.
In Tenerife, material damage has been recorded on roads, incidents of water damage in the area, spills that are recorded at all the firing points of the Anaga and Vilaflor highways, as well as in a puddle produced by spillage on the Las Cookies, the closure of lane 0 of Las Teresitas beach, as well as traffic accidents, with a rollover on the TF-21 road in La Orotava. There have also been power outages in La Laguna and the access road to Puerto de La Cruz has been closed, due to a significant drop in water.
La Gomera has suffered different landslides, which has forced the closure of practically all the mountain areas, and there has been a traffic accident on the GM-2 road, PK 8, at the height of El Camello, in San Sebastián de La Gomera, no personal injury
Gran Canaria is seeing the worst side of the storm, and has already had to practically isolate the nucleus of La Aldea due to roadblocks, in addition to registering damage due to falling rocks in El Risco and other mountain areas such as Tejeda. The road connecting to Taurito beach has been cut off to traffic, traffic accidents have been recorded on the GC-3 and in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria alone, since early morning, a hundred small events have been recorded, which has found within normality in the face of this type of situation, as Mayor Augusto Hidalgo has pointed out.
Tropical storm Hermine has caused in Telde, southeast of Gran Canaria, strong runoff that reaches the beaches, the collapse of a road, power outages and the fall of walls and rubble, among other incidents.
⚠️ Eolo street, in La Higuera Canaria, closed to traffic due to the collapse of one of its sections as a result of rain erosion. The cut has been signaled by Municipal Services. We insist that they only make essential trips. pic.twitter.com/zg1VOC4UrF
– Telde City Council (@Ayun_Telde) September 25, 2022
Boats on the way, in the middle of the cyclone
The humanitarian organization 'Walking borders' has announced that in the middle of the cyclone, now a post-tropical storm, there are 107 people crossing the Canarian Route.
These are three pneumatics, with 107 people and 6 children on board who have not yet been located or heard from them, and who left on Thursday for Lanzarote and Fuerteventura. “107 people are still missing on the Canarian route, including twenty women and six babies. While they are fighting for their lives waiting for a rescue, a tropical cyclone is approaching the islands," warned the organization's spokeswoman, Helena Maleno.
