The old highway to Madrid, which was previously a royal road and today is an avenue that changes its name depending on the town it passes through, is the border of the flood that swept through the outskirts of Valencia on Tuesday of last week. This kilometer-long straight road, which volunteers travel every day to reach the most damaged areas of Benetússer, Alfafar and Masanasa, seemed on Saturday like the ‘highway from hell’ to Baghdad in the first Gulf War. As if a bomb had fallen on them, but with water instead of fire, on both sides there were mountains of vehicles torn apart among remains carried by the current: trees, reeds, containers, mailboxes… Since Sunday, everything has has been removed and the mud that covered it has been cleaned, which demonstrates the impetus for the clearing work thanks to the arrival of heavy machinery piloted by volunteers and army crews who carry out the tasks with martial order. But, in the secondary streets , the mud continues to reach their knees and neighbors and volunteers struggle to carry their belongings and bags of food between brown puddles and stinking mountains of garbage, reeds and mud. You have to cross one of these mud pools to get to the Susanna Estilistes hair salon, which combines the name of Susana Talavera and Ana Leila Fernández. The two were working that fateful Tuesday and, along with their clients, were miraculously saved from drowning. Related News standard No “I can’t, I’m sorry” Ayuso, unable to make statements about the management of DANA in Valencia standard No The missing number 1: José, the truck driver who was going to retire Toni Jiménez«It is true that, at noon, there was a red alert warning us to go home but, as they had said many times and nothing had ever happened, we continued working because It wasn’t raining. We were confident because, although it became cloudy, it wasn’t raining,” Susana acknowledges. Like everyone else, he continued with his work until, in the afternoon, “we heard a very loud noise and saw a container floating down the street. Water immediately began to enter under the door and we put towels to hold it back. It was not rainwater, but dirty. The videos that Ana shows us, which accompany this information, are horrifying and show those moments of panic. «It all happened in five minutes. We saw the cars floating and the water ran halfway through the window. The glass of the door broke and we thought ‘Shit!’, but it was miraculous because, otherwise, we would have stayed inside,” says Susana. Screams and cries Between screams and cries, she and her clients were able to get out and hold on to the bars of the adjacent building so that the current would not carry them away. But Ana, paralyzed by fear, stayed behind. In addition to the force of the water, they suffered the onslaught of cars dragged by the flood. Thanks to a van, which she grabbed to get out of the corner where she had been scared to death, Ana reunited with her friends and held on to the fence. From the first floor, her neighbor Jose came down and, with a hammer, broke the glass door of his portal so that the women could enter after jumping over the fence. «There it is! He is our savior! », Susana and Ana scream with excitement when their neighbor Jose, who is much better than the one in the television advertisement, looks out from the balcony. By the skin of your teeth, never better said, these two hairdressers escaped drowning. “My father was alone at home and, as he has hearing problems, he did not hear the neighbors banging on the door to get him out.” Also like this, in the last minute, Vicente León Domingo, 78 years old, was saved in the nearby Orba or Parque Alcosa neighborhood, in the adjacent municipality of Alfafar. “My father was alone at home and, since he has hearing problems, he did not hear that the neighbors were banging on the door to get him out,” says his son, Vicente León, while cleaning his apartment, which is located on the ground floor and was completely awash. «The water was already half a meter and, since the door did not open, the younger neighbors took a ladder down through the interior patio, broke the bathroom window and, although it is somewhat narrow, they were able to get him out there because my father is thin,” details León. “If it hadn’t been for them, it would have been fatal.” Among several neighbors, they took the old man up to a roof on the first floor and from there, crossing the gap in the light patio, they put him in a house through another window. “If it wasn’t for them, it would have been fatal,” Vicente León huffs. After saving his father’s life, he has already been able to clean his apartment and throw away all the furniture and appliances, which were covered in mud. “No one has come to help us here and now they come to take a photo to do politics. About what? Of misfortune? »Waiting to be collected with excavators and cranes like those that have already cleared the main avenues, the remains of this great inland shipwreck are piled up in the secondary streets. «No one has come here to help us and now they come to take a photo to make politics. About what? “Of misfortune?” Mario Herrero Soria criticizes the eventful visit to Paiporta of King Felipe VI, Pedro Sánchez and Carlos Mazón. «They have left us helpless! “This is a Spanish Titanic!” he says angrily and trying to hold back his tears. MORE INFORMATION news If Paiporta vindicates himself after the attacks on the King: “Here we are not like that” news Yes Sánchez’s safety capsule prevented him from receiving a direct hit news No Dana in Valencia: “Mothers need baby strollers, car seats, clothes… everything” news Yes The accident hero who saved six elderly people in PicañaFor her part, Lorena Roig Giner also complains about this official visit while cleaning his mother’s house in neighboring Masanasa, where the water almost covered the height of the doors. “Those of us in the villages are not violent, but we are sad and angry because this could have been avoided with an alert.” Trying to contain his emotions behind a mud-stained mask, he cries that “what is natural cannot be avoided but, with a warning, people take refuge and do not live a normal life.”
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