{"id":60697,"date":"2021-11-27T08:24:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T13:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60697"},"modified":"2021-11-27T08:24:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T13:24:30","slug":"watch-cars-carried-away-by-floodwaters-as-months-worth-of-rain-pelts-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60697","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Cars carried away by floodwaters as month’s worth of rain pelts Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Watch: Cars carried away by floodwaters as month’s worth of rain pelts Malta<\/a><\/h3>\n

People trapped in cars, homes flooded, walls collapse<\/strong><\/p>\n\"The<\/picture>The scene in an Msida street on Thursday morning. Photo: Chris Sant Fournier<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Flash floods carried away cars, collapsed walls and trapped motorists in their submerged vehicles after a month\u2019s worth of rain fell in a matter of hours on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Police and army units were deployed as roads turned into rivers, leading to multiple water rescues and road closures throughout the day.<\/p>\n

An overwhelmed Civil Protection Department appealed for people to avoid valleys and areas close to the sea. There were no reports of fatalities.<\/p>\n

But two of their own officers had to be\u00a0rescued<\/a>\u00a0by an Armed Forces of Malta helicopter as they got into difficulty rescuing an elderly man trapped in his car in Burmarrad. All three were airlifted to safety.<\/p>\n

In another dramatic scene, a family of four was\u00a0stranded on the roof\u00a0<\/a>of their taxi in Salina as the water rose around them. Eventually they had to use a rope to wade across to safety.<\/p>\n

\"AA woman is carried on the back of a Civil Protection Department officer in a rescue in Salina. Photo: Jonathan Borg<\/div>\n

\u201cReports indicate that this is one of the worst storms we have had in a long time,\u201d said the CPD, who doubled its officers on duty to cope with \u201cthe influx of calls for assistance\u201d.<\/p>\n

Initially the CPD focussed its entire operation on rescue work, but by Thursday evening, a clean-up operation began and it started responding to non-urgent calls.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe flooding causing traffic jams on the Coast Road. Photo: Jonathan Borg<\/div>\n

The Met Office issued an amber weather warning in the morning and revealed that an average of 74.6mm of rain fell, with one weather station in Selmun measuring 107.6mm in 24 hours.<\/p>\n

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