HURRICANE-force winds have sent people flying down Spanish streets and left others hospitalised as Storm Kristen unleashes a ‘red alert’ across the country.
What appears to be a video of fallen bins reveals itself to include terrifying footage of a person being sent sliding across a main road.
This frightening footage was taken in Cadiz and exemplifies how intense winds have been, they are strong enough to send a grown man to the floor and then force him to fly onto the other side of the road.
It’s not just wind hitting the coastal town of Cadiz, flood alerts have also been issued with yellow warnings for high waves and orange alerts for heavy rain.
Across Andalucia residents and locals are terrified as water levels continue to rise.
Destruction has been seen across the southern region with firefighters saving one man from a car that had been swept into a strong-flowing stream.
The vehicle was caught in an Alora current of water and crumpled by a pile of rocks.
In Jaen, water levels are so high that cars are floating through the streets – footage shows a van being sent into a car as it gets taken by the current.
In the same province a towering tree was sent on its side, taking some of the road and pavement it was planted into with it.
Outside of the Hospital Universitario a video shows the tree battling to stay upright and then being forced over, showcasing the destruction caused by the storm.
This chaos has come in a location with an Aemet yellow warning, in Almeria and Extremadura a ‘Red Alert’ has been issued as winds are expected to reach up to 130km/h.
Outside a different hospital, this time in Sevilla, a fallen tree left people injured and placed them on stretchers.
These individuals were taken inside to be treated at Virgen del Rocio hospital with people in the video seen rushing to help, climbing over fallen branches and wrestling with umbrellas.
Storm Kristen is working its way across Spain with even Madrid’s Barajas airport having operations slowed down due to snow on runways.
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