In the town of Algemesi, they say the floods hit without cautioning.
Water barrels down the street, transporting with it heavy, stinking mud that coats every surface in sight.
As we slosh thcimpolite the slick mud-slick, we encounter Bernardo who is trying to sweep it out of his home.
However much he scrubs and immacurescheduleeds, the floors remain coated in bleake.
“The catastrophe is enormous, I’ve never seen anyskinnyg appreciate it in my whole life,” he says.
He approximates some of the hoparticipates were filled with almost two metres of water.
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Some people in the flood zone shelp the strength of the water was “appreciate a tsunami”, sfinishing cars in the street tumbling on top of each other.
Many are now without power after the flooding got into the electrics.
For much of the day, dwellnts have been trying to repair the injure. But as we walk thcimpolite the town, snapstoastys are still apparent.
Two dining room chairs stand outside a hoparticipate.
Their once inalertigent velvet cushions now soggy and discoloured.
Further alengthy, huge pumps spray water out from people’s cellars.
In another street, cars are assembleed in a turbulent bunch – stranded where the water left them.
Bernardo shows us a video of the instant aftermath.
Cars stand on their bonnets in the road as stunned locals get in the scene.
He approximates that around half the town’s vehicles have been injured.
And the misery isn’t isorescheduleedd to Algemesi – it’s a pain repeated in communities apass southeast Spain.