Many streets are still blocked by piled-up vehicles and debris, in some cases trapping residents in their homes.
By Joe Wilson and Teresa Medrano, Associated PressA boy helps to clear mud from the street after floods in Massanassa, just outside of Valencia, Spain, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024.
“The situation is unbelievable. It’s a disaster and there is very little help,” said Emilio Cuartero, a resident of Masanasa, on the outskirts of Valencia. “We need machinery, cranes, so that the sites can be accessed. We need a lot of help. And bread and water.” A woman throws a damaged chair into the street after floods in Massanassa, just outside of Valencia, Spain, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024.
The tragedy has unleashed a wave of local solidarity. Residents in communities like Paiporta — where at least 62 people died — and Catarroja have been walking kilometers in sticky mud to Valencia to get supplies, passing neighbors from unaffected areas who are bringing water, essential products and shovels or brooms to help remove the mud.
“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. “No one even came to warn us on the first day.”
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