To connect a coaxial cable to a terrestrial television antenna and thus bring the signal back to a home, it is necessary to make a soft cut in the rubber so as not to damage the mesh. Then the copper cable that must be connected to the receiver is stripped and extracted. This should not touch the rest of the elements, as it could cause a short circuit. Juan is a handyman by profession. Until last Tuesday, he made a living doing repairs that today he passes on to other neighbors due to the need to do tasks on his own that seem basic, but that in a moment of chaos can be everything.
In this case, to remain connected with what is happening beyond the catastrophe in Valencias, because some bitter neighbor or a stranger without morals has decided to use his time to climb to the roof of his house and cut the cable. He has not been able to see on television, for example, how the people of Paiporta stoned the King and Pedro Sánchez, the latter having to flee in order to survive the attempt to take a photo in this Valencian town, devastated by the flood, and where they are still finding dead five days later.
A panorama that is repeated on both sides of the old royal road to Madrid, which connects most of the towns of l’Horta Sud. Benetússer, Sedaví, Massanassa, Catarroja, Albal… in all of them the panorama is bleak. If you manage to get to Alcosa Park, a neighborhood in Alfafar, you will find streets flooded with mud, where to walk you have to use sticks to avoid falling into a sewer that may be open. Military brigades such as the EMU or the Legion’s sappers try to clean up, but it is practically impossible. They can’t cope, the space is too big, a reality of which they are aware and it is reflected on their faces.
In this part of the catastrophic zone, fear was felt again during Sunday afternoon, given the alerts that have been increasing the risk of extreme rain. While the drops fall, in the streets there are neighbors who continue bailing water from their garages, organized independently and where they do 24-hour shifts to continue dredging until only mud and destroyed cars remain.
They do not know if there are corpses in them, although the putrid smell alerts to this possibility at certain points. They have to stay next to the pumps for fear that they will be stolen, but the water falling from the sky and the memory of what they experienced makes them take cover. Others continue working despite everything in cleaning tasks that are expected to be endless.
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