He weeps several times as he tells how his neighbors saved his life when he was in water up to his neck, almost literally, in the floods along the DANA in Catarroja (Valencia). «It was crazy, I was stuck on a window grill, they rescued me and I have trauma to my head, because I am seven months and I weigh 80 kilos, they couldn’t handle me and the rope unwound and I hit the wall,” recalls Raquel, a pregnant safe in the catastrophe.
The level of the waterspout was rising, “the water was already above my hips almost up to my chest, although there were trees and streetlights, with the current in the middle of the street I climbed up to the façade of the clinic and there I was hooked until that they were able to get me out, thanks to the fact that there was roof and people there,” he details.
He will never forget those minutes, with the maximum tension and fear for his survival: “They were moments of great panicof pray and to say let’s see how, in what way death is going to come to me, I saw myself being hit by cars or crossed by a sign.
And, above all, the maternal instinct, stronger than that of saving herself. «Pregnant, you think ‘let the things hit me, but don’t let them hit me in the belly, so as not to lose the child…’ an odyssey, it was terrible», narrates this young woman, with the image of all the belongings and objects dragged by the avalanche next to her.
After the scare, with those blows and some bruises on her arms, due to the efforts when they hoisted her with difficulty because the rope was uncoiled and she could not use the strength to facilitate the climb up the façade, they performed a medical checkup in the hospital and have ruled out damage for him baby waiting. They have not been able to take x-rays so as not to affect her pregnancy.
Raquel was caught by the flood in the supermarket and after the rescue she has begun to roll up her sleeves and start cleaning her town, without being daunted by the pregnancy. «They don’t want me to help them, but I couldn’t sit still, there is a lot to do, my neighbors from below they have remained homeless“At least they are alive, the least is helping to remove belongings,” she says between sobs and tears, seeing the drama around her, even though she lives on the first floor and has not caused material damage directly.
“A lot of people have come to help, I can’t handle large and heavy items, but with the brush I clean, so that the firefighters can access,” he describes. “Is devastatingyou have to take your things out the door and through the windows, remove mud from the patios, from the garages, tremendous, something so that it is not repeated in life, but, well, we are alive,” he adds.
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