Bad weather: the Peloponnese and Western Greece sank – Roads, rivers, trees fell [εικόνες & βίντεο] | HELLAS



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Bad weather “hits” various areas of the country, causing dozens of problems.

Nafpaktos was left at the mercy of bad weather, since in a few hours the roads turned into rivers. Kalydonos Street was flooded and the Fire Brigade rushed to the scene, running with two vehicles to proceed with the pumping of water.

Video: bad weather hits Nafpaktos

There were also problems in the mountainous Nafpaktia and the biggest were located in the Pyllini area, in Gavrolimni, but also in the Trikorfo area.

In Nafpaktos, an alarm was sounded Monday afternoon after lightning struck a solar water heater in a home in Paleopanagia. As Npress.gr points out, the lightning that struck caused flames. Nafpaktos Fire Brigade forces rushed to the scene, although it is not specified if anyone was inside the house at the time of the incident.

Bad weather in Messolonghi

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Flooding also occurred in Messolonghi, and the Fire Department received more than 50 calls to pump water from basements and lower floors.
Speaking to APE-MPE about the floods, Messolonghi Mayor Costas Lyros, “Our city was affected by a severe weather phenomenon, while at the same time there were pumping stations, which we have not received yet, that were not fully working. “.

“We”, continued the mayor, “ran to restore the full operation of the pumping stations,” while, as he added, “both the municipality and the Region had done a good job in the previous period in cleaning streams and wells “.

Floods in Patras too

The scene is similar in Patras, where after bad weather, houses and shops were flooded, while several roads were turned into rivers.

The roads in Patras are rivers
Rivers in Patras / Photo: thebest

According to the best, the Fire Department has started pumping water from two houses. At the same time, there was a landslide on the old Patras-Corinth national road, near the height of “Tsolis”.

Car on a flooded road
Chaos due to bad weather / Photo: thebest

A fishing boat capsized in Lesbos due to bad weather

The adventure had a happy ending for the three missing people after the sudden bad weather that hit eastern Lesbos in the afternoon and caused the overturning of the fishing boat they were on. A man and two women were rescued after a Coast Guard operation. The two women are transported by Coast Guard boat from Skala Nea Kydonia to the town of Mytilene for treatment at the town hospital.

Bad weather “hits” the island at night. The heavy rains were accompanied by hail and wind, causing problems. According to the stonisi website, trees fell on the provincial road in Ariana even on houses, while great damage was done to the PPC network.



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