Hurricane Dana

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The death toll from Spain's devastating DANA storm has risen to 205, with dozens still missing, mainly in Valencia. Damage is extensive, rain warnings persist, and 500 more soldiers will join 1,700 in search efforts. Over 120 roads remain closed, and the Madrid-Valencia AVE trainline will be down for up to three weeks. Spain is in its second day of national mourning.

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Amazing! #DANA continues to generate adverse phenomena right now in #España , specifically in the northeast and southwest #PenínsulaIbérica . This afternoon (10/31/2024), waterspout or waterspout in #IslaCristina ( #Huelva ). If it makes landfall it would be a #tornado . Video via
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This video is important, people were not informed and thought it was a small overflow, well, in this video you can see that in less than 1 minute no one could stand up. #DANA #gotaFría #Valencia #SinLuz #FMA #ElTiempo #Ayuda #inundacion

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We are at #Valencia , after the passage of #Dana .

Migrants cook on the streets to feed those in need.

This is popular solidarity: from the people for the people.

Because we can only save ourselves together, regardless of passport, ethnicity, or skin color.

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"The alarm went off when I was up in a tree and saw the dead floating by"... 😢

Dedicated to the PP and, especially, to the President of the Valencian Country, Carlos Mazón... 👇
#Dana #Valencia

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The extremely difficult work of the firefighters. This is a street in Alfafar. Completely blocked by cars and even caravans. There are numerous streets like this and many are still without electricity.
@InformeSemanal
#dana #Valencia

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Solidarity also comes from outside #ComunitatValenciana . In this polygon of
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, dozens of trucks are non-stop loading goods that people have donated, to take them voluntarily from #Madrid to the affected towns in #València .
📡 Follow the last hour of #DANA in #ÀPuntNTC 👇

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These people don't ask if they can go or not, THEY LOAD UP AND GO!!!

A million thanks 🚜🚜🚜
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Ten workers from a Sedaví nursing home carried more than 120 elderly people up two floors in the short time they had while the water level rose several meters. They are all fine.

BRAVE 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

❤️❤️

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Firefighters from Malaga in Valencia unblock a completely flooded tunnel where there were between 30 and 40 cars and fatalities inside

More information about the tragic DANA in http://101tv.es

#dana #valencia #bomberos #inundaciones

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Fourth day in #Valencia , we continue working with the same strength and involvement.

The encouragement of all Spaniards is added to that of their Armed Forces
@EjercitoTierra

@Armada_esp

@EjercitoAire
and
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#DANA

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As the days go by the situation at #Valencia , #España , worsens.

There is no electricity, there is not enough food, although hundreds of people have come to help remove the mud, as Andrea Sanchís, who is at ground zero, tells us, the situation is critical.

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There are many people reporting that the Ministry's Integrated Operational Coordination Centre (Cecopi) have confirmed that 1,900 people are unaccounted for in Valencia. I've done some research and this is what I've found....

CECOPI has sent the following text via WhatsApp: "We categorically deny what was published by http://diario.es regarding the CECOPI meeting held this morning, as no documents or data or figures were discussed at the meeting."
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Mud and insults thrown as Spanish king and PM visit flood-hit town
King Felipe heckled in Paiporta, one of the municipalities worst affected by last week’s floods
Mud flung at Spain's king as clean up and search efforts continue in flood aftermath – video
Hundreds of people have heckled Spain’s King Felipe and Queen Letizia, as well as the prime minister and the regional leader of Valencia – throwing mud and shouting “murderers” – as the group attempted an official visit to one of the municipalities hardest hit by the deadly floods.

The scenes playing out in Paiporta on Sunday laid bare the mounting sense of abandonment among the devastated areas and the lingering anger over why an alert urging residents not to leave home on Tuesday was sent after the flood waters began surging.

Much of the fury appeared to be directed at the elected officials, as calls rang out for the resignation of Pedro Sánchez, the country’s prime minister, and Carlos Mazón, Valencia’s regional leader.

Sánchez was swiftly evacuated as bodyguards used umbrellas to protect the group from the barrage of mud. “What were they expecting?” one furious local person asked the newspaper El País. “People are very angry. Pedro Sánchez should have been here on day one with a shovel.”

The king insisted on continuing the visit, at one point meeting a man who wept on his shoulder. He was also confronted by a young man who told him that “you’ve abandoned us”, asking why residents had been left on their own to grapple with the aftermath of the deadly floods. “You’re four days too late,” he told the king.

The man also challenged the king on why the civil protection service, which is overseen by the regional government, had sent the alert hours after the state-run weather agency had warned of deteriorating conditions. “They knew it, they knew it, and yet they did nothing,” he shouted at the monarch. “It’s a disgrace.”

Hours after the visit, King Felipe appeared to address the incident.

Speaking to officials in Valencia in a video posted online, he said: “One has to understand the anger and frustration of many people given all that they have gone through, as well as the difficulty in understanding how all the mechanisms work when it comes to the emergency operations.”

Spain’s royal palace later said that the king’s plans to visit a second hard-hit town in the region had been postponed.

The public rage came as the death toll from the floods climbed to 217. As the meteorological agency on Sunday again issued a red alert, forecasting further heavy rain in the area, mayors from the affected municipalities pleaded with officials to send help.

“We’re very angry and we’re devastated,” said Guillermo Luján, the mayor of Aldaia. “We have a town in ruins. We need to start over and I’m begging for help. Please help us.”

The town’s 33,000 residents were among many in the region grappling with the aftermath of the ferocious floods that rank as the deadliest in Spain’s modern history. The number of people missing remains unknown.

Luján said his town was in desperate need of heavy machinery to clear out the vehicles and debris piled up along the streets.

The municipality had yet to confirm the extent of the devastation, leaving Luján bracing for the worst. Aldaia has one of the region’s most visited shopping centres, with a vast underground car park that on Tuesday filled with water in a matter of minutes.

“Right now, the upper part of the centre is devastated and the lower level is a terrifying unknown,” Luján told the broadcaster RTVE. “We don’t know what we’re going to find. We want to be cautious, but we’ll see. It might be heartbreaking.”

In Paiporta, the mayor, Maribel Albalat, described the situation as desperate. Days after the town’s ravine overflowed, unleashing a deluge of water that wreaked havoc on the 29,000 inhabitants, parts of the town remain inaccessible, she said. “It’s impossible because there are bodies, there are vehicles with bodies and these have to be removed,” she told the news agency Europa Press. “Everything is very difficult.”

Albalat said the number of deaths had climbed to 70 in the small town and was expected to climb in the coming days, as access was secured to underground garages. On Tuesday, in the absence of any sign that this storm would be different from any other, many people had gone down to their garages to move their cars to higher ground.

In flooded towns such as Alfafar and Sedaví, mayors described feeling abandoned by officials as people scrambled to shovel mud from their homes and clear streets. In some areas, people were still trying to secure an electricity supply or stable phone service.

On Friday, the catastrophic images from these municipalities led to a show of solidarity, as thousands of volunteers from less-affected areas trekked to the hardest hit carrying shovels, brooms and food supplies. On Saturday, thousands more turned up at Valencia’s City of Arts and Sciences, which had been hastily converted into the nerve centre of the clean-up operation.

The mayor of Chiva, where on Tuesday nearly a year’s worth of rain fell in eight hours, said the situation was a “rollercoaster” for the 17,000 residents.

“You see sadness, which is logical given that we’ve lost our town,” Amparo Fort told reporters. “But on the other hand, it’s heartening to see the response that we’ve had from everyone … there is a real, human wave of volunteers, particularly young people.”

Sánchez said 10,000 troops and police would be deployed to help with what he described as “the worst flood our continent has seen so far this century”.

He acknowledged that help had been slow in reaching where it was most needed. “I’m aware that the response we’re mounting isn’t enough. I know that,” he said. “And I know there are severe problems and shortages and that there are still collapsed services and towns buried by the mud where people are desperately looking for their relatives, and people who can’t get into their homes, and houses that have been buried or destroyed by mud. I know we have to do better and give it our all.”

Scientists say the human-driven climate crisis is increasing the length, frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. The warming of the Mediterranean, which increases water evaporation, plays a key role in making torrential rains more severe, experts have also said.

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After several days almost on our knees begging to be sent to the focus of the disaster, finally
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activates #USECIC with all #España to do OUR job.

While thousands of #guardiasciviles continue to wait in our homes, #Marlaska and our DAO, take away our powers in #Aldaia , #Alfafar , #Massanasa , #Sedaví , #Benetuser and others, to give them to the National Police.

Any help is little and is appreciated, but taking away territories from us when 80,000 civil guards are watching #Valencia is unacceptable and outrageous.

This maneuver makes the immediate resignation of the Minister of the Interior obligatory. We remind our generals that "honor is the main currency of the #GuardiaCivil ...... Once lost, it is never recovered"

#GuardiaCivil

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