Nearly a hundred people have died after torrential rain and floods in the Valencia region of Spain, according to AFP. Many are also missing. The extreme weather hit Spanish Antonio Tarazona hard. On Tuesday evening, the three-month-old daughter Angeline and his wife Lourdes María García were taken by floods. He has not seen them since, writes the Spanish newspaper El País. – It was impossible for Antonio and his family to leave the outskirts of Valencia, as the extreme weather got worse and worse on Tuesday evening. They got into the car to get away, but heavy flooding prevented them from driving anywhere. – The car started to float, he says to the Spanish newspaper El País. Rescue crews walk past cars that are on top of each other after the extreme weather in Valencia. Photo: Alberto Saiz / AP/NTB Antonio says they managed to get the car to stop until a sign. He managed to get out of the car through the window. Antonio then tried to help the others out, but got stuck in a fence. Then the car began to float away, and he was separated from his family. – The last thing I saw was them shouting for help from the roof of the car, he says. He tried to break free from the fence to catch up with them, but couldn’t. – It was impossible, says Antonio. – Said she was going to fight Wife Lourdes called from the roof of the car to a friend for the last time closer to 9pm on Tuesday evening. – She said she was going to fight as long as she could and asked me to take care of her other two children, says Clara Andrés to the newspaper El Mundo. There is great destruction after the extreme weather in Valencia. Photo: Alberto Saiz / AP/NTB Clara walked six kilometers to pick up the two children aged 10 and 13. She found the children alone with no light or internet connection. They are now safe. Antonio was rescued from the flood and sent to a shelter. He hoped to meet his wife and child there, but has seen no sign of them. He tells El País that he has been awake for 40 hours. – If Lourdes still hasn’t made contact with anyone, I have to admit that I’m starting to get rather worried about them, says Antonio. Torrential rain and floods hit Valencia in Spain on Tuesday and dozens of people have been confirmed dead. With each passing hour it becomes harder to believe that they will be found alive. – May God give us help and hope. I can’t do anything anymore. After all the time that has passed, it is difficult when it is a three-month-old baby, says Antonio. – We were trapped like rats Extreme weather is one of the worst natural disasters to have hit Spain in recent times. – Yesterday was the worst day of my life, says Ricardo Gabaldón to the Spanish broadcaster RTVE. He is the mayor of the town of Utiel in the Valencia region. A resident of Valencia is led away by rescuers. Photo: RUBEN FENOLLOSA / AFP/NTB – We were trapped like rats. Cars and containers floated down the streets. The water rose to three metres, says Gabaldón. According to him, several people are still missing in the city after the extreme weather. The video below shows a woman who was stuck outside her house, along with her cats and dog. She is eventually rescued by crew on a rescue helicopter. A lady with a dog is rescued from a flooded house in Utiel in Spain on Tuesday 29 October. Spain was hit by torrential rain and flooding on Tuesday, with an entire year’s worth of rain falling in just 8 hours. The video was filmed in Utiel by teacher Javier Ballasteros. – We managed to get the helicopter to see us and rescue this woman, who was trapped in her wooden house with her cats and dog, he writes on X. Later, the teacher said that he had been informed that they were safe. – A living hell The extreme weather was also dramatic for Denis Hlavaty. He was at work at a gas station in the municipality of Massanassa, which is near Valencia. Denis Hlavaty gestures to show how high the water was. Photo: Screenshot / Reuters TV – A river flowed in. The doors were torn away and I had to spend the night there, surrounded by two meters of water. I had to stay on top of a shelf, says Hlavaty to Reuters. He says the gas station disappeared in the flood. – I smile so that I won’t cry. It was a living hell, he says. Published 30.10.2024, at 20.05 Updated 30.10.2024, at 20.27
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