The material damage caused in recent days by the hail storm is being recorded in several localities of Hego Euskal Herria, but they anticipate that it has left significant damage: damage to vehicles, flooding of roads and houses, loss of crops, rupture of building crystals... Even on Monday afternoon they have treated a woman in Igorre, a hail wound, according to EITB.
A. In the following video of the user Angos you can see the size of the granite poured into Igorre:
And the sky broke. #Igorre pic.twitter.com/TobUcN8Pfo
— A. Angos / RONCAL (@AAngos 1) September 11, 2023
Among the worst hit are Igorre, Dima, Amorebieta, Iurreta, Ondarroa and others. Material losses such as Eibar, Mutriku, Azkoitia and Azpeitia have also occurred in Gipuzkoa. However, in southern Navarre Sunday was the worst day, and the Government of Navarre has requested that the localities of Fitero, Cintruénigo and Corella be declared catastrophic areas.
The Minister for the Environment and Rural Development, José Mari Aierdi, and the Councillor for Territorial Cohesion, Oskar Txibite, have come to these municipalities to speak with their mayors and officials and assess the damage. They thank the citizens who work in the recovery of damage and recall that they have to transfer to the government the damage suffered in the place they have allowed on the web in order to accept possible aid.
The Government of Navarra has also stressed that in 2023 36 municipalities have warned of the damage caused by the rains and have had expenditure of EUR 2.7 million, regardless of the last weekend. They stress that it is the most efficient crop insurance system in the face of crop losses, so they announce a “significant increase” in the 2024 budgets, taking into account this year’s budget.
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