Five days after the flood swept away everything they knew, the residents of the affected areas in Valencia They insist on the need to wear gloves and masks to carry out the enormous pending cleaning task. Some self-imposed prevention methods due to the need to enter areas where the water has been stagnant for four days, without knowing if there are corpses in them, since there are still many people to be found, and where the mud accumulates despite the tireless work they have been doing. from the moment the danger “passed.”
This was accelerated on Friday – at least in the municipalities closest to the new channel of the Túria River – due to the help provided by hundreds of people who came on foot yesterday. Not only from Valencia, but also from other parts of Spain such as Alicante Andalusia or Madrid. Something that is appreciated by the locals, who are overwhelmed by the tragedy, and that at the same time caused delays at the entrance from Valencia near the San Marcelino neighborhood, where cars and rows of bicycles and people loaded with supplies accumulated. Most of them returned around five in the afternoon from the affected area, and among them groups could be seen recording videos or taking photographs.
In addition to boots, rakes, shovels, brooms… they begin to add masks and gloves. A measure that they insist on due to the fear of contracting an infection and that no public institution has recommended to them.
Towards the interior of l’Horta Sud, the “putrid” smell that is felt, for example, in neighborhoods around Benetússer and Massanassa alerts the neighbors. Some of those who lived on the ground floors (they have not been the only ones in danger, since the torrent of water reached more than two meters in height in certain points) have managed to largely clean the interior of their rooms, of which they have could rescue few or no things. However, others still see their houses razed and covered in silt and damage, so groups of friends, family and acquaintances – organized autonomously – prepare as night falls for a new day of work.
In addition to boots, rakes, shovels, brooms… they begin to add masks and gloves. A measure about what they insist on due to the fear of contracting an infection and that has not been recommended to them by any public institution (central or regional) directly, but rather is transmitted through accounts on social networks where independent accounts have begun to post posts about methods of action. in natural disasters. These circulate through messaging chats shared by those who were born and raised in the area.
It is not the only thing, in addition to videos recorded in first person amidst the anguish of the catastrophe, alarming audios and hypothetical death tolls are forwarded from areas that have not yet been entered and which, therefore, are unconfirmed. The most sensible people distrust the latter while waiting for drainage work to begin in spaces where water still accumulates. This is the case of the level crossing between Alfafar and Benetússer or the parking lot of some large nearby supermarkets, where people were shopping at the moment the water began to rise.
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