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Unfortunately there are dead bodies in some vehicles,
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 region They raised the alarm when the water was already here, there’s no need to tell me the flood is coming,
Julian Ormeno, a 66-year-old pensioner, told Agence France-Presse 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 week According 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 Unfortunately, lifeless bodies have already been found,
Organizations 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,
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 chief For those who at this moment are still looking for their loved ones, the whole of Spain weeps with you.”
After the storm receded, having dropped a year’s worth of rain in a few hours, and the rescuers began to wade through the mud and wreckage with the cadaver dogs, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez told his nation 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 When 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 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 Carbon 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,
We found a lot of elderly people inside their homes and people who went to get their cars. It was a trap,
We 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
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 Those people wouldn’t have died if they had been warned in time,
Laura Villaescusa, a neighbour and manager of a local supermarket, told the Reuters news agency This storm front is still with us,
[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,
In general terms, what we know is that, in the context of climate change, these types of intense and exceptional, rare rainfall events are going to become more frequent and more intense and, therefore, destructive.
Dr Ernesto Rodríguez Camino, Senior State Meteorologist and member of Spanish Meteorological Association, said
