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The flooding couldn't have been avoided, but if those in charge of notifying us had notified us sooner, there would have been fever deaths and fewer missing people'
The user who shared the clip, who goes by the handle @luuciaseguii on the social platform, wrote in the video
We’re going to send a clear message,
the agency wrote on social media
We’ve had to empty a supermarket to distribute food among the population,
he said
Our priority is to find the victims and the missing so that we can help ease the suffering of their families.”
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speaking after meeting with officials and emergency responders in Valencia yesterday, explained
Paiporta never floods, we never have this sort of problem. We found many elderly people in the town centre. There were also a lot of people trying to get their cars out of their garages ... it was a terrible trap.”
He told RTVEThis is a disaster. There are a lot of elderly people who don’t have medicine. There are children who don’t have food. We don’t have milk, we don’t have water. We have no access to anything,
a resident of Alfafar, one of the most affected towns in south Valencia, told state television station TVE
We are going to take the measure of closing the cemeteries from 14.00 hours this Friday until next Monday. We ask that this celebration be held next week and we will set up a special timetable from 8 am to 9 pm from Monday to Sunday so that it can be held safely
Javier Bonet, Palma’s first deputy mayor, said on Thursday, according to the Majorca Daily BulletinLook at what I'm picking up:
said Nieves Vargas in a local supermarket whose doors had been tossed aside by the water and was unattended by staffRight now the most important thing is to safeguard as many lives as possible,
he told reporters
There's a total of 158 people to which must be added dozens and dozens of missing,
news agency Reuters reported quoting Angel Victor Torres, minister in charge of cooperation with Spain's regionAccording to the forecast … it is expected that around 6 p.m. its intensity will decrease” in the Valencia region
he said, possibly referring to AEMET’s “red” warning, which at the time was in force until 6 p.m. that day
What is clear is that scientific predictions were already warning that something very big could happen,
said Juan Jesús González Alemán, the senior AEMET meteorologist who first warned of the storm’s magnitude last weekUnfortunately, lifeless bodies have already been found,
he saidOrganizations that are the sole responsibility of the central government — such as the AEMET — provide the information with which the Valencian government formulated its emergency response to the catastrophe,
he saidWhen we saw that nobody is bringing us water, nobody is telling us anything, we’ve decided to go to the supermarket and grab what we can,
one woman carrying bags of goods told Spanish television in the town of Paiporta
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
I could hear people from the residence screaming, ‘help, help’,
Marisol Lara, a 62-year-old woman, said through tears, London’s Daily Telegraph reported
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If nations do not implement current commitments, then show a massive increase in ambition in the new pledges, followed by rapid delivery, the Paris Agreement target of holding global warming to 1.5C will be dead within a few years, and 2C will take its place in the intensive care unit,
said Inger Andersen, the UN environment chiefCarbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere faster than any time experienced during human existence, rising by more than 10 per cent in just two decades,
it saidI saw bodies floating past. I called out, but nothing,
Sánchez said