Spanish floods latest: Horror maps shows more flood chaos to come in next 24 hours

In principle, cold drops can be seen in the weather models. But where exactly the rain will fall and how much there will be, can often only be estimated a few hours before the event,

Walter said

In order to be able to make a comparison with the Ahr valley flood, we first need more data from Spain,

German weather expert Walter tells DW

If, for example, the Ahr valley rainfall had only come down a little further north, the consequences would not have been so catastrophic,

he points out

We need machinery, cranes, so that the sites can be accessed. We need a lot of help. And bread and water,

Cuartero said

This 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

The situation is unbelievable. It’s a disaster, and there is very little help,

Emilio Cuartero, a resident of Massanassa on the outskirts of the city of Valencia, told The Associated Press

I have been there all my life. All my memories are there. My parents lived there, … and now in one night, it is all gone.”

Speaking to the AP, Chiva resident Juan Vicente Perez said

It’s the community itself that has to rally around and sort out provisions for everyone as they’ve had no help so far from the regional government,

Gallego said, noting

Around a year’s worth of rain fell in a single day, and as you can tell, it’s had a devastating effect on the community. They’re still cut off – no electricity, no connection to any sort of power system here,

Al Jazeera’s Sonia Gallego said, reporting from Chiva

In lieu of racing in Valencia, MotoGP will instead race for Valencia,

MotoGP said in a statement

We're going from car to car looking for any petrol we can find,

said one firefighter who had travelled to Valencia from the southern region of Andalusia to assist rescue efforts, carrying a plastic tube and empty bottles to collect the petrol from the cars' tanks

We climbed into the scoop and he took us to safety up at the hotel, which is the highest part of town,

says Platero

By then, the water was 3 metres high,

says Aleixandre

The solidarity people here in Utiel have shown has been amazing – and people have been risking their lives saving others,

says Ricardo Gabaldón, who has been the town’s mayor for the past 18 months

Six people died here, almost all of them were old and had reduced mobility,

he says

I only just managed to get into the house because of the water,

he says

A lot of people have died here,

he says

We were watching how the river was rising – normally there’s hardly any water in it – and in a matter of seconds, the water started flooding in,

she says

You could hear the neighbours’ windows breaking because of the water pressure and then all the water getting in,

he says

I’m not very tall and you can see how high the water was. It would have been over my head if I’d tried to come down,

she says