Moment Madrid commuters are caught in flooded metro
A group of commuters aboard a rail line in Madrid saw their train car suddenly flood with water as a record torrential rain swept across Spain from Sunday to Monday.
Shocking footage from inside a metro line shows riders backing away from the door connecting the train cars as floodwaters seeped through the cracks.
The worried passengers could be seen filming the flood, with the downpour visible through the train windows, making it seem like the train was stuck in a waterfall.
City officials said the flash flooding began on Sunday, with Mayor Jose Luis Martinez-Almeida warning residents to bunker down as 120 liters per square meter of rain was expected to fall in the span of just 12 hours.
“Due to the exceptional and abnormal situation, in which rainfall records will be broken, I ask the people of Madrid to stay at home today,” Martinez-Almeida wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
The mayor noted that the floodwaters far exceeded the city’s 1972 record of only 87 liters per square meter.
The rain transformed the vibrant city of Madrid into a town caked in mud water, where cars were swept away by the flash flood and commuter lines were eventually shut down.
Spanish officials said at least three people have died as a result of the flooding in the Toledo countryside, about 31 miles southwest of Madrid.
Three others were also reported missing, including a father and son whose car was dragged into the Alberche River in Aldea del Fresno, and an 84-year-old man who was dragged by a flood current in Villamanta.
The storm appears much worse than the deadly 2019 rain that killed two in Southeast Spain, which saw the town of Ontinyent suffer more than 15 inches of rain in mere hours.
Spain’s national weather agency, AEMET, issued a maximum red alert notice on Sunday for Toledo, Madrid and the city of Cadiz.
The agency said the storm that struck the country was the meteorological phenomenon known as DANA, a Spanish acronym for “isolated high-level depression,” which brings about sudden torrential rain.
With Post wires
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