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Helicopters rescued people stranded in their homes as torrential rains from Storm Adam triggered floods across eastern Spain on Monday (Oct 19), killing at least three people and prompting shelter-in-place orders for more than 800,000 residents.

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00:00Helicopters rescued people stranded in their homes as torrential rains from Storm Adam
00:05triggered floods across eastern Spain on Monday, killing at least three people and prompting
00:11shelter-in-place orders for more than 800,000 residents.
00:15The downpour cut off several towns along the Mediterranean coast, with rivers bursting
00:20their banks and streets turning into torrents.
00:24The flooding brought back memories of the disaster in the Valencia region two years
00:28ago, which killed more than 230 people.
00:32Local officials said two women who had drowned were found over the weekend.
00:36One body was washed ashore on a beach in Segundo, Valencia, while the other woman was swept away
00:42by floodwaters in Cabrera de Mar, near Barcelona.
00:46The Spanish Civil Guard said more than 2,100 people had been evacuated in the Valencia region,
00:52with 95 rescues carried out.
00:55Meteorologists say human-driven climate change is making extreme weather events such as
01:00these more frequent and destructive.
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