A automobile is trapped within the hail in Sant Hilari Sacalm

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A hail storm has shocked Sant Hilari Sacalm (Girona) early this afternoon. In this city, greater than 60 liters per sq. meter have fallen and, in some streets and squares, the buildup of water and hail has come to exceed a meter in top, which has blocked visitors and flooded some houses.

One of the photographs left by the storm is that of a automobile trapped within the hail, after the driving force tried to drive via the Dr. Gravalosa sq., the place a stream used to move that was coated in the beginning of the twentieth century. through which the ice has coated the scuppers, thus inflicting a major flood.

Firefighters have rescued the driving force and his companion to later take away the automobile after eradicating the hail with an excavator. As TV3 has superior, it will be two French vacationers who didn’t know the realm.

The emergency companies have reported extra notices and the intervention of the Generalitat Fire Department has been essential on some events. Despite this, they report that there have been no accidents.

The Catalan meteorological service had issued an alert discover because of the hazard of violent climate and, even if the area of La Selva, the place Sant Hilari Sacalm is positioned, was off the map, this municipality borders Osona, which was on pink alert .

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