Rosa was watching ‘Pasapalabra’ when the fateful flood arrived. If she had fallen asleep, if her niece hadn’t called her… They don’t even want to think about it. In his house Sedavínow half empty while a group of volunteers works hard trying to discover the soils again, it is time to try to rescue what we can from the mud. Included the photographs, the memories of a lifetimealthough in these hard days it is difficult for those who have lost everything to think about these details. Fortunately, this is not the case of Rosa, who when she hears the initiative of the University of Valencia To recover the memory of those affected by DANA, he says: «Shut up, they almost threw my wedding album at me! Thank goodness! The dishes from that day were less fortunate, as they went into the trash along with a piece of furniture that was left unusable, says his niece.
It is she who tells that her aunt has an entire cupboard full of albumsstill wet and not thrown away, pending classification. “I think my aunt has the most photos in the town,” he jokes while showing the arsenal of family memories they want to rescue, which also includes memory books and even notebooks. Some images have been saved thanks to the sturdy albums of old, which included a protective paper protecting the image. In others, the mud has eroded some faces. But when they dry, and in the hands of specialists, most will be salvageable. “Look how handsome I was there,” jokes Roberto, Rosa’s brother, who has signed up for this search for family memory. «Here are photos of many of the family, those are our parents, uncles, nephews…»
There are also those who out of pure desperation he has thrown away almost everythingas Loli. She, who still doesn’t even have water, as she was supplied from a well, admits that with the displeasure of having lost everything, since her home was all in a basement, she emptied her house. «The truth is that I have taken some photos“The ones that remain are in frames on that piece of furniture,” says this single woman. “Don’t throw away more, because at the university it helps you recover them,” tells her her niece, coincidentally a student at the University of Valencia, who has come to help her clean, like hundreds of young people. She is the one who takes the photos out of the frames to let them dry in the sun. Let’s see if there’s any luck.
With the good weather as an ally, some neighbors have not hesitated to put their albums to dry in the street. On the same street as Rosa, another family has placed all their photographs directly on a long table. You have to combat the humidity no matter what: “Fortunately, these are all fine,” they say with relief.
Now that she knows that there are organizations willing to save family images, Sunci says she is convinced that she will take the image of the day of his first communion. «It was in a closet, on the ground floor, but the water entered, overflowed the furniture and splashed the photo. And I want to keep it, because I made it with my twin brother. “We took communion together,” he says. As she reviews her family memory, Sunci has a smile on her face. It is another thing to talk about the floods: “The steps of the house saved us, now we are worried about work, we have a school…”, he says through tears. Thank goodness there are already those who are determined to take care of the common memory while they attend to the urgent.
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