Spain flood deaths top 205, hopes fade for missing

We took what we had at home, and now it's time to help. It's emotional, it gives you goosebumps,

he told AFP

There aren't enough firefighters, the shovels haven't arrived,

Paco Clemente, a 33-year-old pharmacist, told AFP as he helped clear mud from a friend's house

There are almost certainly more people who have died because the water washed people away who had got out of their cars."

One survivor told the Telecinco TV channel

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 are still waiting for people to come help us,

the TikToker wrote in the caption to her post on Thursday

Nothing can come through, no food, nothing. The only thing that comes are the rescue trucks that can maybe bring a bit of food, but you need to walk 15-20 km (9-12 miles) to buy some bread,

said Rafael Lopez, 59, who lives in a neighbourhood next to Paiporta

It's amazing - thousands of people coming from Valencia, like a big corridor of people helping the victims of this incredible disaster,

he said, as he headed to help

To Paiporta, to help,

answered a group of young men, walking briskly, when asked where they were headed, referring to one of the hardest-hit suburbs of the regional capital, Spain's third-biggest city

The disaster motivated me to come,

she said

There is still a pile of cars in the industrial estate, mountains and mountains of cars,

Amparo Fort, mayor of the town of Chiva, told public radio RNE