Photos: Sergio Betancort.- Lanzarote is an island accustomed to the wind but not to the extent of what happened last night. The gale blew from the southwest at 70 kilometers per hour, although on some occasions it reached gusts of 91 kilometers per hour. This has caused Lanzarote to wake up this morning with fallen light poles, dragged containers, broken glass or traffic signs literally torn from the ground.
In this sense, the firefighters have not stopped working, carrying out more than a hundred sorties in all the municipalities until noon, although the main problems have been focused on the towns of San Bartolomé, Arrecife, Tías and Teguise where there have been landslides as well as falls of walls, posts and trees.
Street closures
This work has been reinforced with the participation of the security forces who have collaborated in surveillance tasks.
In fact, they have been the ones who have had to cut off some streets due to the danger of falling structures, as has happened in Coronel Valls street in the Tower of the capital, where the police have had to place fences due to the danger of falling broken glass in the swimming pool of the Lancelot hotel.
Sadness
The image of the day and that has best symbolized this storm for all the people of Lanzarote has been the fall of the wind toy of César Manrique located in the roundabout of Tahíche. And the sculpture has not been able to withstand the force of a wind that has also covered the entire island with a thin layer of sand.
In fact, it will take a long time to see this impressive figure move again thanks to the force of the wind.
But the damage has been much deeper. In addition to the numerous ruptures in infrastructures of all kinds, the agriculture of the Island has also been affected by the passage of Delta.
On this aspect, the Minister of Agriculture of the Cabildo, Higinio Hernández, highlighted: "Almost one hundred percent of the agriculture of the entire Island has been lost". It seems that the wind has practically destroyed all the crops of the Island. A situation that affects both those products that are already planted and those that will have to be prepared in the coming months, since the land has also been affected.
