Entire villages isolated, people cut off without electricity and water, many of them without food. The sadness and shock. And dead, many more than the day before: there are already 158 – 155 in Valencia alone – and the fear is that there will be more. It is not even known how many missing people there are. “Dozens,” say the authorities. The sadness and shock, again. This is the picture of the second day after DANA. The worst cold drop in decades continues to shock the country. Everything is destroyed. Everything is to be rebuilt.
The province of Valencia is the most affected by the storm, with 155 deaths. On Thursday night, more than 300,000 residents are still without telephones and almost 80,000 are without electricity. In some of the hardest hit areas they urgently demand drinking water: this is the case of Chiva, Paiporta or Alfafar. What is urgent now is that. The reconstruction will come.
However, emergency teams continue working tirelessly throughout the affected area to locate more victims or, better, to locate those who are still missing.
Meanwhile, They work tirelessly to try to remove mud and mud from homes and sidewalks. Public services do it, but so do neighbors. “Only the poor can save the poor”, is heard these days in Valenciaa devastated territory. Not even Valencia has been completely saved; It was believed so, but the flood entered the Torre neighborhood with rage, where eight people, all neighbors, died on Tuesday night in a garage.
More help
The destruction of the storm has been of such magnitude that nothing is the same anymore: it is impossible to travel by car or bus, there is no public transport: The high speed between Madrid and Valencia will not be able to be restored for at least 15 days or three weeks and Cercanías is a service that has simply disappeared. The Minister of Transport, Oscar Puentehas reduced the impact and has said that the Cercanías service is in a “very serious” situation. A euphemism.
Although in reality everything is very serious. So much so that the Government has decided to send 500 more soldiers to the Valencian Country this Fridaymainly from the Military Emergency Unit (UME), which will be added to the 1,200 troops already deployed.
Ángel Víctor Torres, Minister of Territorial Policy, has announced the sending of more aid. The Government will send eight forensic doctors and three more forensic assistants to Valenciawho join the eight forensic doctors and the assistant who are already working in the area, and will make international forensic doctors available if necessary.
More people before him increasing number of deaths: the 155 deaths in the Valencià Country, plus two others in Castilla-La Mancha and one in Andalusia. Victims to which are added “dozens of missing people,” according to Puente. It is like saying that there will be more deaths: “We cannot affirm that number, but it is clear that the more days that pass and they do not appear, the more likely it is that we will not have the hope of finding them alive,” laments the minister.
Torres, however, opens a parenthesis in the face of criticism for remember that the Emergencies powers before the DANA are autonomous and to appeal to collaboration against those who are currently “excessive”, against those who try to divide by criticizing the Government for not having assumed the responsibility of declaring a national emergency. Words for Feijóo.
Paiporta, ground zero of the tragedy
If we talk about dead, where there is more is in Paiporta. Half a hundred, shooting low. The epicenter of the pain is there. Going to Paiporta now is visiting chaos; is to visit the pilot house of the tragedy: entire neighborhoods with thirty centimeters of mud, hundreds of cars piled up on each sidewalk, blocked streets, furniture on the avenues, pressurized water, vehicles in the same bed of the Poyo ravine – the cause of all the destruction – or people asking water in the streets are some of the images of the day after in Paiporta.
There is so much destruction in Paiporta that, within minutes of entering ground zero of the tragedy, one seems to get used to the devastation: The checkpoints of the hearses are still continuous who arrive accompanied by a police vehicle, which confirms that the tragedy has not yet ended in a municipality flooded by mud
What happened in Paiporta makes that Raimon song good, To my country the pluja does not know ploure [En mi país la lluvia no sabe llover]: In Paiporta it barely rained on Tuesday, but like a poisoned gift, received, through the Poyo ravine, all the water that had fallen during the afternoon of Tuesday in Chivasomewhat further into the interior of the province.
Now, 48 hours after the tragedy, Paiporta tries to assimilate and process all that tragedyalthough he does so while trying to clear the streets so that emergency vehicles can access. The big problem now is drinking water and food, which has caused thousands and thousands of people to set out on foot from the city of Valencia to bring bottles and jugs of bottled water to the population of Paiporta and also to Catarroja. , Albal, Sedaví or the Valencian neighborhood of La Torre. A solidarity pilgrimage full of pain.
chiva —almost 500 liters per square meter fell there—, It is a photocopy of Paiporta. The devastation is the same; the pain too. Neighbors are urgently demanding drinking water, electricity and food. The deficiencies are the same, including baby bottles, starter milk and diapers.
In Chiva there are also dead. Amparo Fort, mayor of Chiva, explained to EFE that at the moment they have ten deadthey expect “hundreds” because they have only been able to focus on the urban area and The municipal area is very large and there are “hundreds of cars” overturned from the highway and “they sure have people inside.”
Floods in Castellón and Jerez
Valencia captures the gaze, but the rain has no mercy. In Castellón and Cádiz there have also been floods this Wednesday. The Junta de Andalucía has activated the Emergency Plan for flood risk in operational phase 1 in the rural center of Jerez and is going to carry out preventive evictions of about 300 families in neighborhoods located around the banks of the Guadalete river.
And for this Friday, The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) has activated warnings for rain and storms for this Friday in areas of the peninsular Mediterranean areaprovince of Huelva and the Balearic Islands, after Tuesday’s rainfall left 158 dead in the Valencian Community, Castilla La Mancha and Andalusia due to floods.
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