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Right now the most important thing is to safeguard as many lives as possible,
he told reporters
Those people wouldn't have died if they had been warned in time,
Laura Villaescusa, a neighbour and manager of a local supermarket, told ReutersThere's a total of 158 people to which must be added dozens and dozens of missing,
Angel Victor Torres, minister in charge of cooperation with Spain's regions, told a press conference
I saw bodies floating past. I called out, but nothing,
Sánchez said
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 APThe 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’re told that that’s where a lot of people were caught,
said AlbalatThe car started to move, even with the brakes on,
said ReyWe’ve felt very isolated because there’s no government presence or anything like that,
said KlarenburgThe currents began to drag the car down,
he told El PaísI look out the window and the first thing I see is, literally, cars floating down the street of where I live,
he saidAll 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
When we started receiving notifications the water was up to here,
he said pointing to his beltI came on the metro, but the metro doesn't exist anymore,
the tearful 53-year-old cleaning employee saidEverything happened in half an hour,
remembered pensioner Julian Loras, 60, who narrowly avoided the floods while walking his dogToday I learned of two more deaths,
he saidWe found a lot of elderly people inside their homes and people who went to get their cars. It was a trap,
she told TVE
Our priority is to find the victims and the missing so we can help end the suffering of their families,
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said after meeting with regional officials and emergency services in Valencia on Thursday, the first of three official days of mourning
This storm front is still with us,
the prime minister said