A region devastated and still in shock. After the devastating floods that hit Spain on the night of Tuesday, October 29 to Wednesday, October 30, and which cost the lives of at least 95 people, the inhabitants of the Valencia region, the most affected, oscillate between sadness and astonishment after the violence of these bad weather.
In the town of Castellar-Olivera, bordering the city of Valencia, the damage is considerable and time seems to have stopped. Among the bodies lining the road, covered in a heavy layer of mud, locals can only see the extent of the damage.
“My in-laws’ house is devastated, I was in water up to my waist. We didn’t sleep all night, we couldn’t find the car, we don’t know where it is. C “It was literally catastrophic,” Amelia told BFMTV. And this last one He added: “There was no way to drain the water, when I entered the patio of the house, it was a field of mud.”
“Luckily there was a first floor”
The situation is the same in almost all the municipalities surrounding Spain’s third city, whose center has been saved. In Aldaia the same scenes of desolation are repeated as in this devastated town, where the water rose two meters in the space of a few dozen minutes. Running water and electricity have not yet been restored.
“There was water, it was like a river. Look where the fence is, it went up more than a meter. Fortunately there was a first floor when the water arrived, we were able to go up and take shelter,” said Minerva, a resident of the town.
“The door was pulverized, luckily for us we are alive, but we lost everything,” he laments.
Everywhere, the damage is colossal. Although the search in urban areas ended on Wednesday afternoon, many villages in the surrounding mountains remain very difficult to access and dozens of people are still missing.
Currently, 1,500 police and 1,000 soldiers supported by helicopters are still trying to find survivors in this area. Although the current toll is the highest since the floods that left 300 dead in October 1973 in the country, the number of deaths “will increase” in the coming hours, the government warned.
Source: BFM TV
