The second day of the rain event brought more torrential downpours. This time, the worst of it hit the Barcelonès region, where rainfall intensified throughout the afternoon and evening, falling persistently and heavily, often accompanied by thunderstorms and some hail. The most affected municipalities are those in the northern part of the region, especially Badalona, ​​where some neighborhoods, such as Llefià, recorded more than 120 liters per square meter. Some unofficial weather stations recorded even higher amounts. Sant Adrià de Besòs was also significantly impacted by the downpours.

Catalonia has experienced this Thursday another day of heavy rain which has caused road closures, disruptions to mobility, and flight cancellations. Civil Protection sent an alert to mobile phones Wednesday night in practically all coastal and pre-coastal areas, warning of torrential rain and urging caution while traveling. The rain began falling in the early hours of the morning and has been intensely soaking the entire Catalan coast and inland areas. The Catalan Fire Service responded to 377 calls by 1 p.m., mainly in the metropolitan area. By emergency region, most of the calls came from the North Metropolitan Region (213), which includes Vallès. The remaining calls came from the Girona Region (73), the South Metropolitan Region (41), Terres de l'Ebre (21), Lleida (17), the Central Region (8), and Tarragona (4). Most of the calls were for water accumulation in basements and garages, and for fallen trees. There were also reports of lightning strikes on trees in public areas and in some private gardens, and of people trapped in their vehicles by floodwaters, some with serious head injuries. The 112 emergency line received 924 calls. The Medical Emergency System (SEM) responded to a total of 22 incidents and dispatched ambulances to treat 26 people in person, none of whom sustained serious injuries. In the Gran Via tunnels in Sabadell, municipal police officers, with the assistance of firefighters, had to rescue several people from inside vehicles. Sabadell and Móra d'Ebre were among the hardest-hit areas. In Girona, later in the afternoon, several parking garages also flooded. Some schools have also been affected, such as Escola Bellaterra in Cerdanyola del Vallès. According to Anna Garcia, the school's principal, they received contradictory instructions, as classes were not suspended, but they were asked to be cautious and reduce their movement. "We had to put ourselves at risk to open the school," she asserted.

Three weeks after the torrential rains that devastated the Baix Ebre and Montsià regions, Lluís Baiges still vividly remembers his farm transformed into a mud pit, littered with plant debris, greenhouse plastic sheeting, and collapsed metal structures. "We need two weeks of continuous work and more than forty people to try to recover the quarry that the water didn't wash away," he explains. In the greenhouses of Cultidelta—the family business he co-manages with his brother, specializing in the cultivation of native Mediterranean plants and horticultural and vegetable production—the mud marks are still visible. "The water came in like a tide and flooded some 60,000 square meters of greenhouses to a height of 80 cm. A week later, there was still stagnant water and trays of seedlings floating," he adds. The current swept away a significant portion of the crops. Among the plants they've been able to salvage, very few are usable for sale. "Most have been damaged by the mud itself, and those that haven't rotted from the excess moisture," he laments. "We're still in the process of assessing the damage, which is difficult to quantify, but I think we can estimate losses of around half a million euros, if we take into account the additional costs of repairing the damage, the loss of product, and the temporary halt in sales," he says.

"We looked at each other and understood everything: the only solution left was for the entire family to leave their home permanently." This is how the mayor of Alcanar, Joan Roig, describes the moment he found Dídac Pla, his wife, and their two daughters up to their waists in mud the very night of the floods. Alice The storm had just descended with great violence on this town in Montsià and other nearby towns such as Godall, Santa Bárbara, la Ràpita, Ulldecona, and Tortosa. In some of these municipalities, rainfall exceeded 250 liters per square meter, and this was the final straw: after Pla and his family have been affected by four floods in the last seven years, they are one step away from becoming the first climate refugees in Catalonia.

The C-12 highway near Alcanar was like a swimming pool. And in the middle of this large pool of water created by the overflowing of the Galera ravine, there was a car. A vehicle with two elderly people inside, up to their necks in water. The depth was almost two meters. Rescue specialists from the Catalan Fire Department swam to the surface, pulled one person out through the window and the other through the door, and brought them to a dry area. This was one of the 31 rescues the Catalan emergency services carried out last Sunday. the day the Dana flooded and frightened the Terres de l'Ebre. They were complicated rescues, at night, with a lot of water and many services simultaneously.

The showers have returned, the floods, the overflowing ravines in Terres de l'Ebre, especially in Montsià, but also in Baix Ebre, Ribera d'Ebre, Baix Camp, and Terra Alta. Flooded houses, garages, and basements, unpaved streets...

The afternoon of downpours closed yesterday with two people missing—who could be a woman and a child—dozens of flooded streets, inundated lowlands, overflowing rivers, and train service halted for more than three hours throughout Catalonia, forcing some 150 commuters to spend the night at Sants station. These are the direct consequences of the storms that swept across Catalonia this Saturday afternoon from the south and northeast. Up to 18 firefighters on land, as well as underwater, worked throughout Saturday to locate two people in Cubelles. The work stopped well into the night and resumed early Sunday morning.

In Les Cases d'Alcanar early this morning there were still two palms of mud in most of the streets. The rain has continued to fall throughout the night and early morning in the Montsià and Baix Ebre but not with the intensity with which it did this Wednesday at noon. In little more than three hours the waterspout completely flooded the streets of municipalities such as Alcanar, Amposta or Ulldecona. The mayors of the area say that the waterspout caught them by surprise because they had not received any notice from the Catalan Government to alert them of the amount of water that would fall in a short time. The Department of Home Affairs has claimed that none of the meteorological models it had on the table - both at Catalan, Spanish and European level - foresaw this scenario.