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This is a disaster. There are a lot of elderly people who don’t have medicine. There are children who don’t have food. We don’t have milk, we don’t have water. We have no access to anything,
a resident of Alfafar, one of the most affected towns in south Valencia, told state television station TVE Right now the most important thing is to safeguard as many lives as possible,
There's a total of 158 people to which must be added dozens and dozens of missing,
news agency Reuters reported quoting Angel Victor Torres, minister in charge of cooperation with Spain's region Our priority is to find the victims and the missing so we can help end the suffering of their families,
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said after meeting with officials and emergency services in Valencia on Thursday, the first of three official days of mourning I saw bodies floating past. I called out, but nothing,
All of Spain weeps with all of you...We won't abandon you,
Generally speaking, the jet stream, because of the changes we are seeing due to climate change, is having more pronounced undulations,
Maria Jose Sanz, scientific director of the BC3 Basque Center for Climate Change, told the Associated Press The same extremely wavy jet stream that is causing the U.S. drought is also responsible for the horrific flooding in eastern Spain,
climate scientist Jennifer Francis at the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Cape Cod told the AP The car started to move, even with the brakes on,
The situation is catastrophic … We don’t have electricity in some areas; we’re without water and communication is difficult,
she told broadcaster Onda Cero We’ve felt very isolated because there’s no government presence or anything like that,
The currents began to drag the car down,
We’re told that that’s where a lot of people were caught,
I look out the window and the first thing I see is, literally, cars floating down the street of where I live,
All the basements were filled with water. A lot of people got nervous, they went to take the car out and they were trapped there,
he said, fearing more bodies would be found I came on the metro, but the metro doesn't exist anymore,
the tearful 53-year-old cleaning employee said When we started receiving notifications the water was up to here,
he said pointing to his belt Everything happened in half an hour,
remembered pensioner Julian Loras, 60, who narrowly avoided the floods while walking his dog Today I learned of two more deaths,
We found a lot of elderly people inside their homes and people who went to get their cars. It was a trap,
