the fourteenth day of May 1971, at noon, a cloud fell hard on Piedrabuena. It appears that heavy rain was concentrated from the nose of the Arzollosa to the town. For an hour and a half estubo falling water. At one point lower than the streets were flooded and water entered many houses. In Polin bar known as the water reached a meter in height. This bar was in the corner of Calle Real and the road from Ciudad Real. From that point of discharge, as a few meters was a stream, the water reached the street corner with Calle Real Cantarranas. According
tells me Sacedón Vicente García-Rodríguez, known as Vincent "the saddle", no hail, just water, but lots and entered many village houses. At Cuatro Caminos, the road of Pozuelos and Porzuna down the road a lot of water and what is now the residence and the school down real streams.
Fortunately no casualties.
The date is remembered by many people because it is the eve of the Pilgrimage of San Isidro. On several occasions I have heard what happened and I have often thought how dangerous these situations more related to human activities with the weather. That is, a very strong storm has a number of risks. Perhaps the most imposed is that of lightning. In addition to the damage that can cause heavy rain or hail are real risks for people who are added or multiplied by a number of factors. One square meter of flat land tends to retain water. If the substrate is porous can absorb a certain amount. If the material is impermeable produced a total runoff. If the surface has an inclination the possibility of being absorbed by the ground and the vegetation decreases. So far it looks like a very basic question. If human beings construct and waterproof the floor every liter of water that flows down to the lowest points. If it rains hard or too much water flows in turn stronger and speed. If you have not taken account of these realities that situation of danger. Ie as a town or city grow drains should grow proportionately. If adjoining land are deforested or cultivated runoff also increase.
There are still more risk factors that are almost unbelievable if not for the seriousness of the consequences. A simple plastic bags are enough to block a simple drain and cause serious hazards. Sometimes the obstacles it has been generating human beings become real traps. Walls, fences, vehicles, piles of earth dams make store water and end up increasing the flow and yield strength ...
In Piedrabuena, for example, that point located between the building of Unicaja and "Johnny Disco" is very dangerous. How far I have knowledge, underground drainage was much higher than expected and the bed of the stream is now antigui calllejón. I've always missed signs and signals indicative of the danger of this space in case of heavy rains. I think the general public is aware of that risk but it should install these informational signs.
I think that prevention is very important and that these curious ephemera should serve us better. In
memory is-or should be, the sad memory of the twenty dead in the flood of Valdepeñas ... a village on the plains of La Mancha ... or the hundreds of deaths of the famous tag Consuegra, also known as "the Consuegra was coming. " Villarrubia was also in a few years ago real danger situations that were solved by many neighbors kindly and professionals who were working in those difficult times.
I remember these events and try to draw lessons for the poresente and the future is very important.
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