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People of Valencia, we are not going to leave you alone,
Sanchez said, pledging all necessary resources and efforts to save as many lives as possible
We found a lot of elderly people inside their homes and people who went to get their cars. It was a trap,
she told TVE
Right now the most important thing is to safeguard as many lives as possible,
he told reportersThose people wouldn't have died if they had been warned in time,
Laura Villaescusa, a neighbour and manager of a local supermarket, told ReutersThere's a total of 158 people to which must be added dozens and dozens of missing,
Angel Victor Torres, minister in charge of cooperation with Spain's regions, told a press conferenceI saw bodies floating past. I called out, but nothing,
Sánchez said
Generally speaking, the jet stream, because of the changes we are seeing due to climate change, is having more pronounced undulations,
Maria Jose Sanz, scientific director of the BC3 Basque Center for Climate Change, told the Associated Press
The same extremely wavy jet stream that is causing the U.S. drought is also responsible for the horrific flooding in eastern Spain,
climate scientist Jennifer Francis at the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Cape Cod told the APWe don't know how fast the DANA [Depresión Aislada en Niveles Altos - high altitude, isolated depression] will move; we have to keep a close eye on it, because although it is weakening, it is still active
warned Amengual
Our priority is to find the victims and the missing so we can help end the suffering of their families,
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said after meeting with regional officials and emergency services in Valencia on Thursday, the first of three official days of mourning
This storm front is still with us,
the prime minister said[The ... They said] that they received no information, that they eventually did get alerts but those alerts sounded on their phones after the flood occurred,
she saidI have been told of people who were clinging to trees, but the force made them let go and they were carried away, calling for help. Trucks, everything was going from here to there,
said Sanchez, 32.
Nobody warned of anything... they took out the owner of the bar here dead, drowned, chaos,
Rigon told AFPPlease, stay at home... follow the calls of the emergency services,
pleaded Prime Minister Pedro SanchezNeighbourhood after neighbourhood, street after street, there is not a business standing,
he told AFPThis (street) was full of people and today it's still empty. It is utter desolation,
he said
People ... don't have the information they need to keep themselves and their families safe. We could see that people were putting themselves at risk driving in flood waters and there was just so much water that it has overwhelmed these places,
she saidThe storms are not over yet,
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez warned during a visit to Valencia, the worst hit area
It has been agreed to postpone matches that were to be played in professional and non-professional competitions, both in 11-a-side football and in indoor football [in the Valencia region],
it said