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The flooding couldn't have been avoided, but if those in charge of notifying us had notified us sooner, there would have been fever deaths and fewer missing people'
The user who shared the clip, who goes by the handle @luuciaseguii on the social platform, wrote in the video We’re going to send a clear message,
the agency wrote on social media We’ve had to empty a supermarket to distribute food among the population,
I have just requested the incorporation of the army and the available land, sea and air forces to reinforce the logistical tasks and the distribution of aid to the population."
In a post on X Carlos Mazon previously said Our priority is to find the victims and the missing so that we can help ease the suffering of their families.”
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speaking after meeting with officials and emergency responders in Valencia yesterday, explained Paiporta never floods, we never have this sort of problem. We found many elderly people in the town centre. There were also a lot of people trying to get their cars out of their garages ... it was a terrible trap.”
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 We are going to take the measure of closing the cemeteries from 14.00 hours this Friday until next Monday. We ask that this celebration be held next week and we will set up a special timetable from 8 am to 9 pm from Monday to Sunday so that it can be held safely
Javier Bonet, Palma’s first deputy mayor, said on Thursday, according to the Majorca Daily Bulletin Look at what I'm picking up:
said Nieves Vargas in a local supermarket whose doors had been tossed aside by the water and was unattended by staff According to the forecast … it is expected that around 6 p.m. its intensity will decrease” in the Valencia region
he said, possibly referring to AEMET’s “red” warning, which at the time was in force until 6 p.m. that day What is clear is that scientific predictions were already warning that something very big could happen,
said Juan Jesús González Alemán, the senior AEMET meteorologist who first warned of the storm’s magnitude last week Unfortunately, lifeless bodies have already been found,
Organizations that are the sole responsibility of the central government — such as the AEMET — provide the information with which the Valencian government formulated its emergency response to the catastrophe,
When we saw that nobody is bringing us water, nobody is telling us anything, we’ve decided to go to the supermarket and grab what we can,
one woman carrying bags of goods told Spanish television in the town of Paiporta I could hear people from the residence screaming, ‘help, help’,
Marisol Lara, a 62-year-old woman, said through tears, London’s Daily Telegraph reported People of Valencia, we are not going to leave you alone,
Sanchez said, pledging all necessary resources and efforts to save as many lives as possible If nations do not implement current commitments, then show a massive increase in ambition in the new pledges, followed by rapid delivery, the Paris Agreement target of holding global warming to 1.5C will be dead within a few years, and 2C will take its place in the intensive care unit,
said Inger Andersen, the UN environment chief Carbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere faster than any time experienced during human existence, rising by more than 10 per cent in just two decades,
I saw bodies floating past. I called out, but nothing,
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
