«There is no water in the garage. “We go down to get the cars.” These were the last words that one of the seven residents of the building on Mariano Brull Street in the city said to his father. Valencian district of The Tower before entering what was going to become a death trap in the form of a waterspout of the worst cold drop of the century.
It was eight thirty-six minutes on Tuesday afternoon. That is the last time the marriage formed by Gaby and Dana They connected to their WhatsApp, according to a friend ABC. The couple went down to the garage with their daughter Alex and the neighbor who had called his father. There they met four others. They all died before any of them had time to get into their vehicles.
An eruption of water that reached a height of two meters took down the garage door and took the eight lives. At Gabi, Dana and Álex’s house, the lights were left on and the table was ready for dinner. “The only thing missing was the keys and cell phones,” some relatives who were his family in the country told this newspaper. Valencia.
The couple, two people “good friends and workers”had arrived in the capital of Turia more than twenty-two years ago from Romania. His friends were his family. And upon seeing that that fateful Tuesday afternoon they stopped answering messages and cell phone calls in the middle of the storm, one of them came to the building on Maestro Brull Street. He had to put on rubber boots and walk parallel to the train track. He arrived and found a Dantesque scene of “cars piled up” on the same sidewalk of the property. The water mark on the façade reached two meters. There were already firefighters and police. And he convinced one of them to go up to the first floor where the family lived. Then they found that no one was there. Just a table set and some lamps on.
An anguish then began that had an outcome this Thursday that, although unexpected, was truly cruel. All friends and family knew they were inside since Tuesday night but they couldn’t get in. The dream of Gabi, Dana and Alex, who had bought the house on the outskirts of Valencia three years ago with the savings from their efforts, was cut short in that garage.
Four other neighbors died along with the family. One of them, Rubenwas a member of the Valencia Local Police. A vocation that he had inherited from Julio, his father, whom the mayor of the city, María José Cataláconveyed the condolences of the City Council.
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