Floods in Spain: Valencia, 205 dead – In a few minutes the streets became torrents

There is no end to the lamentation and anger about the inconceivable tragedy that Europe has been experiencing for the last 24 hours. The worst weather disaster Europe has experienced for 50 years leaves 205 dead. Most (202) in and account is only temporary. The phrase ‘Valencia Cemetery’, unfortunately, is not a journalistic exaggeration for the unspeakable tragedy in Spain. Rescuers set up a temporary morgue today (01.11.2024) in a city convention center and struggled to reach the disfellowshipped areas, while others took gasoline from abandoned cars to give power to homes! Unless they have lost their lives at least three other people in Castilla- La Mancha and Andalusia. The death toll now approaches the 209 who died in the floods in Romania in 1970. The floods that hit Portugal in 1967 cost nearly 500 people life. The 20 minutes that changed everything For a few hours now, the video taken from an apartment balcony in the suburb of Benetússer, Valencia, has been uploaded to social media. It records on a particular timelapse that everything happened… At first, the time is 19:17. Nothing foretells what will follow. At 19:33, the road is filled with cars and is blocked and five minutes later it seems to rain! At 19:40 (two minutes later!) the streets have flooded. At 19:50 the situation has deteriorated. At 20:00, just 20 minutes later, cars have drifted from the waters and as a nutshell have fallen upon each other. Watch the shocking video La cronología de la DANA en Benetússer (Valencia). — Niporwifi © (@niporwifi) They seek survivors, fears of new weather In damaged Valencia, 500 soldiers had developed seeking missing persons and offering assistance to storm survivors, while a new warning of weather conditions was issued in Welva, southwest Spain. The death toll will likely continue to increase, as dozens of people are still missing, Angel Victor Torres, Regional Policy Minister, has warned. Catastrophic flash flowers have been killed at least 158 people in Valencia, Spain. Footage shows dozens of cars overtaking streets and Emergency workers restuing residents from flued buildings and homes! 📹Business Insider — Shan Kamaraj (@skamaraj32) As about 75,000 homes remain without electricity, firefighters draw gasoline from cars that have been abandoned on the streets to put generators into operation in an effort to supply power to homes. “We go from car to car looking for gasoline,” said a firefighter who had traveled to Valencia from Andalusia to assist in rescue operations. In Alphafar, a suburb of Valencia, Spain’s third largest city, rescuers climbed over the cars stacked in the narrow streets while residents, dragging supermarket carts through the muds, passed by a boat drifted from the waters and ended up at a crossroads. “Everything has been destroyed, shops, supermarkets, schools, cars,” said Patricia Vilar, a local resident. Volunteers with brooms, mops, shovels, and buckets helped residents clean their neighborhoods of mud and brought materials. Others carried bags as they looked for food and water. Hundreds of guarding brushes, Buckets, spades walking into towns to help clean up after the — Julie McHamish (@julesmchamish) As the death toll increased, emergency services announced that they set up a temporary morgue at the Feria Valencia conference centre on the outskirts of the city, with the first bodies arriving there early this morning. Photos Reuters