“The corpses are underneath our ft”

When stepping on the stones of the dry mattress of the pit, the rubber of the boots of the brokers of the Navy Emergency Unit (UME) who journey the nation in quest of lacking individuals. It feels like a sizzle. They transfer in teams, three or 4, alongside this riverbed that the locals name the Poyo valley, a stream of water that runs via among the cities that have been drowned by the flood and that have been as soon as innocent. Till Tuesday, October 29.

Neighbors level to the Poyo Gorge as the principle wrongdoer from the floods that destroyed greater than fifteen municipalities and cities within the province of Valencia. It triggered greater than 200 deaths and lots of of lacking individuals.

On Tuesday, the torrent reached about 2,230 cubic meters per second. “4 instances the traditional circulate of the Ebro River”say the specialists.

And it overflowed in Torrent, in Picanya, in Paiporta – the town wherein many of the inhabitants misplaced their lives -, in Catarroja and in Massanassa.

It rained closely on Sunday night time, however it's gone now It's a dry crackirregular and rocky, which the UME and the Military examine for traces of people that might have been trapped within the vehicles that have been swept away by the present.

“The corpses are underneath our ft”says a police officer, pointing to a grave dug into the pit mattress, greater than a meter deep, exhibiting the taillight of a metallic blue Volvo and an open, bruised door of a white automobile.

The chilly spot that flooded the world on Tuesday might have left a cemetery buried.

“We’ve deliberate a morgue that has a capability for 400 deaths”stated this Monday, from Madrid, the overall head of the UME, Javier Marcos.

Within the Poyo valley there are thick tracks from the cranes which can be checking dozens of destroyed vehicles that have been swept away by the present.

As a result of Poyo is a river mattress that stretches for greater than 40 kilometers all through the Group of Valencia. It’s midway between the 2 nice rivers of the area, the Turia and the Júcar, and flows into the Mediterranean via the Albufera de Valencia.

Close to Çiva, a municipality of 16,000 inhabitants additionally affected by the floods, revealed the overflow of the ravine the stays of the unlawful dump that was hidden there. Tons of that particles was swept away by the present.

Emergency personnel verify the twisted sheets for human traces. Vehicles which have already been robbed are marked with spray paint. An “R”, a cross or a circle in essentially the most seen a part of the amorphous waste signifies that patrols have already handed right here.

The Poyo gorge is crossed by a bridge with six arches parallel to the A-Three freeway that connects Valencia with Madrid.

On one of many pillars of the bridge, a white automobile It was stamped and tied with branches like a crucified Christ. In just a few meters of the ravine mattress, greater than fifty destroyed vehicles, mendacity on dry ditch stones or turned the other way up like cockroaches underneath the affect of an insecticide, supply a panorama that may resemble a day after an apocalypse . .

This Sunday, the royals' controversial go to to the affected areas included a cease in Paiporta and one other in Chiva, which by no means materialised. Assaults on the encirclement of Felipe VI and Queen Letizia, who have been accompanied by the pinnacle of the federal government, Pedro Sánchez – who was the primary to get right into a automobile and go away the event – and the regional president of Valencia, Carlos Mazón, suspended the event.

To the frustration of not seeing the royals arrive of their city, the residents of Chiva added one other piece of dangerous information: on Sunday night, the cultural heart referred to as La Mutua, a gathering level and social exercise a lot liked by the folks, the city corridor collapsed.

There was nobody on the website, a development of 1883. However though Chiva doesn’t remorse the deaths or accidents within the collapse of La Mutua, The concern of landslides will increase.

Six days after the most important local weather tragedy to hit Spain, residents proceed to be flooded of their neighborhoods.

The Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, introduced this Monday will cease the discharge of these individuals affected by the storm who didn’t go to work.

Earlier than midday, the meteorological service warned that DANA – the atmospheric phenomenon that triggered the local weather disaster – had already began to depart the province of Valencia to assault Barcelona. For residents of Valencia who proceed to have mud and water flowing from their houses, the information will not be comforting.