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December 2, 2024 | 12:07 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Torrential rains flooded homes, businesses, and roads in the popular Greek tourist island of Rhodes on Sunday, December 1, 2024, forcing authorities to temporarily ban the use of vehicles as Storm Bora pounded the country for a second day.
Citing France24, Storm Bora is expected to bring heavy snowfall to the north and northwest of Greece until Tuesday.
On Saturday, a man died in flash floods that hit another Greek island in the northern Aegean.
More than 17 centimeters (6.7 inches) of rain fell in 12 hours on Saturday, the Greek weather service said.
The fire service received more than 650 calls to pump water out of flooded buildings on Rhodes Island and evacuated 80 people to safer ground, with the city of Ialysos hit the hardest. No injuries were reported.
Cars and debris were piled up high in the flooded streets of Rhodes, with residents trying to remove mud from their waterlogged properties.
"The situation is tragic, some have lost their homes, some have fled, our cars are in a terrible condition," said Sofia Kanelli in Ialysos.
Fire brigade spokesman Vassilis Varthakogiannis told Greece's SKAI TV that the bad weather would continue on Monday.
The Mediterranean country has been ravaged by floods and wildfires in recent years, with scientists saying that Greece has become a "hot spot" for climate change.
"The conditions in recent years are different; we have sudden rainfall and sudden floods," Varthakogiannis said.
In 2023, more than 20,000 tourists and locals were forced to flee homes and seaside hotels as wildfires burned for days.
Thunderstorms and heavy rain also interrupted train services in mainland Greece, especially in the center and north of the country.
REUTERS | FRANCE24
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