Cyclone Daniel ‘Strikes’ Greece: 1 dead, 1 missing and 110 blocked

Cyclone Daniel rolled across Greece: if Athens and the surrounding area was slightly sprinkled with rain, then in Magnesia and the Sporades, residents have serious problems.

So far, one person has died in Volos, who was crushed by a wall that collapsed due to heavy rain. Another resident of Volos went missing after his car was swept away by the current.

Magnesia

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— Shadab Javed (@JShadab1) September 5, 2023

About 110 residents and tourists were blocked in Agios Ioannis Pelion, where the water level exceeded 1.5 meters. Messages are constantly coming in on 112, and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has appealed to citizens to follow the instructions of the authorities. In the city of Volos, the mountain network of the region and on the island of Skiathos, a traffic ban has been introduced.

Κακοκαιρία Daniel: Υδροσίφωνας εμφανίστηκε στο Μαντούδι Ευβοίας | https://t.co/S18PpKysLu#κακοκαιρια https://t.co/SDY7CMfysr

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Sea tornado near Volos

“Extreme Event and Unprecedented Rainfall”
Professor of the Department of Dynamic Tectonics, Applied Geology and Disaster Management, OASP President Efthymios Lekkas talks about an extreme event and unprecedented rainfall in a vast area of ​​eastern Thessaly.

“The unprecedented amount of precipitation that fell over a wide area of ​​eastern Thessaly is an extreme phenomenon,” says the professor. According to him, especially in Pelion, Cyclone Daniel “brought” more than 500 mm of precipitation in a limited period of time at an extremely high speed.

Cars are now being washed out to sea at Agios Ioannis, Pelion 👀#ClimateActionNow #ΚΑΚΟΚΑΙΡΙΑ_DANIEL #κακοκαιρία #Βολος #Θεσσαλια #Greecepic.twitter.com/6R8Z9WOz06

— Volcaholic 🌋 (@volcaholic1) September 5, 2023

“Precipitation numbers, although unprecedented, are completely natural, based on new data from the climate crisis on the one hand, and on the other, due to the proximity to the sea and the transverse-longitudinal location of Pelion to the front of the system’s movement,” he notes. that the risk was extremely high and extreme, but the first picture of the impact on infrastructure in the Pelion area is positive.”

Lekkas emphasizes that “the infrastructure in the Pelion mountain region is particularly resilient to such weather events, given that after the rains of 2017 and the resulting disasters, the Thessaly region made a systematic effort to build infrastructure based on new data, which contributed to the increase in the sustainability of projects.”

At the same time, he emphasizes that “a highly uncertain risk factor for floods, however, remains the proportion of solid particles, that is, the amount of sediment carried by rain and storm water, which in Pelion and on a wider scale is significant due to the delicate nature of the geological formations and especially the shale formations that occur in the region.”

Ilion

#ΚΑΚΟΚΑΙΡΙΑ_DANIEL #κακοκαιρία pic.twitter.com/ALm5Swmuai

— Stefanos Damianidis (@dstefanos) September 5, 2023

Volos hospital flooding due to Cyclone Daniel – rescheduling chemotherapy
Scheduled chemotherapeutic procedures in the Volos hospital for 18 people were postponed until tomorrow, as the drugs used were in the basement, which was flooded.

Τραγικη η κατασταση στο Βολο!
👉Σ' αυτη τη χωρα ή καιγομαστε ή θα βουλιαζουμε απο πλημμυρες!!
Και οι πολιτικοι απλα προσπαθουν να βρουν "τις σωστες" δικαιολογιες για την κοινη γνωμη κ τις ψηφους τους αντι να κανουν κατι!🤮#ΚΑΚΟΚΑΙΡΙΑ_DANIEL#κακοκαιρία #Βολος #Μαγνησια pic.twitter.com/MoCHhfBBAp

— Καθίκι (@KYTKYTKYTKYTKYT) September 5, 2023

Search continues for missing man
The search for EMAK continues and EL.AS. to identify a missing man in Agia Haykaterini in Volos. As it became known from the fire department, a 34-year-old man, trying to drive his car through a stream, opened the door and was demolished. In the car, according to the fire service, was also his son, who is in good health.

"Where are you going, people? Go back to your homes, #Volos will flood entirely.' 'This is madness, the rivers will break,' said the mayor of Volos to the drivers he met on the flooded streets!" #ClimateActionNow #ΚΑΚΟΚΑΙΡΙΑ_DANIEL #κακοκαιρία #Βολος #Θεσσαλια #Greece pic.twitter.com/i7sg0H9BbH

— Volcaholic 🌋 (@volcaholic1) September 5, 2023

Παγασων, πισω απο το τσασλαπατα #βολος pic.twitter.com/OCYBDDB9Cc

— Ταβερνιάρης ο Σαρακοστιανός (@le_tavernier1) September 5, 2023

Streets flooded in Larisa, camps evacuated
The cyclone came to Larissa, where heavy rains turned the streets into rivers, houses and shops were flooded. Hundreds of hectares of crops are also flooded. With the onset of heavy rains yesterday afternoon, landslides occurred in the mountains of Kissavos.

The moment when the earth “swallowed” the bus in Crayosidon

It began to rain in some parts of Attica, but it ended just as quickly. “The Attica prefecture also needs attention because we see the wind shifting to the east/southeast. This is a fairly prevailing wind for the Attica region. It is usually accompanied by heavy rainfall, so we must be vigilant, the air temperature should not exceed 28 degrees in end of the day,” meteorologist Clearchos Marousakis said today.

Shocking video from Agios Ioannis Pelion
In Agios Ioannis Pelion, rainwater swept a car into the sea, and then the waves covered it.

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