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At the disaster center in Paiporta: “La tenía cogida por la mano, pero la corriente se la llevó” | Communications from the Comunidad Valenciana
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At the disaster center in Paiporta: “La tenía cogida por la mano, pero la corriente se la llevó” | Communications from the Comunidad Valenciana

A couple with children selling their pueblo, all with bags and mochilas. “Vamos a casa de mis suegros en Valencia,” explains Víctor. The path is several kilometers long. Son read 12 del mediodía del miércoles. There is no form of accession since it does not involve a trip to Paiporta, one of the epicenters of the tragedy that arose due to the temporary Siglo-Caído in the province of Valencia. The water was declared territory on the way through the sea of ​​the Albufera.

Víctor was “busy” just three hours ago before the evening. At least I could ask my wife to get a good picture. Everyone, like the other Vecinos, knows what they say, the trees, the Farolas, and we, like the power of the water, say “Las Farolas ya las personas”. Escuchó gritos de auxilio y desperate. Once you reach the water level, go into your house a second time without leaving the water. Now, I wonder if it’s a disaster.

A Vecino, it's a miracle for the man of Paiporta.
A Vecino, it’s a miracle for the man of Paiporta.FB

The disaster consists of all parts, but everything is in the dirt. At the entrance to the Polígono Industrial the cars were piled up with some other cars, which meant they had to play. The towers of the church naves were destroyed by the water and washed ashore violently. There is civil defense, local police, UME military and a moving car. I located the body of a young man in front of an Anegadian man. When I reached 40 minutes in this community, about four kilometers from Valencia, I informed Maribel Albalat, the Alkaldeser. There was already one residence that was flooded. There are currently 92 cases in the province of Valencia. “Caminen, caminen”, manda un agente.

It’s not easy to get through a bar you need to drive off. The city is desolate and spectacular, and once you get into the urban core. Appears a mural with irregular shape for various cars, a truck, a bus and a truck traveling in front of the House of the Guardia Civil. The water reaches the end of the garage and two people from the marshes are late. The agents do not have to clarify the issue. One of them has decided and we have decided that one of our agents has to “scan” him, the “Hey que abscansar”, which is still “until late at night”, has to continue the bus before it leaves through the Public, in the field, in plain sight, and when you are in your homes, you have to take a look.

The sight of a central Paiporta street is a miracle of humanity.
The sight of a central Paiporta street is a miracle of humanity.FB

Various visitors could be counted in the city, where the village was no longer legible. For fear of a new water trumpet, from the time of their cars, their houses, from the Barro, because they could not leave the parade of a friend, a confidant. “Do you have a portable charger?” and said: “Did you put a hook on the barro chain that was destroyed by a bajo?” There is no electricity, no water, it’s hot. La gente lleva botellas de agua. Alguien ofrece las suyas. “Very brutal, a water sample that I had to get rid of in a few minutes. “Si tuviera batería te enviaría los videos,” comment, followed an hour later.

When he was 57 years old, he did not want to leave it, but he could not be satisfied with a case “destined for the curritos of the Obra”. Alli estuvo casi three hours at the same time with other of our personalities. Before you meet an old couple with young girls who don’t want to leave the cottage. When I called one of her parents’ phone, the phone stopped working. “Tal vez se mojó,” I ask myself. “La tenía cogida de la mano, pero la corriente, que era muy brutala, bajaba con mucha fuerza, se la llevó,” complains. “Pero si has salvado a gente”, le anima una vecina.

Near the Barranco del Poyo, which was destroyed and rebuilt with a pasarela, the scale of the disaster grew. Access to the street was interrupted, I congratulated the paralelo to leave the subway streets and had to get to the parapet. Las vias han saltado en manyos tramos. The station of the subway is a wonderful hierarchy formed by the tornos, the machines used and the place where they have a train from the driver’s cab of a car. A family trail for the whole family. “Así no vamos por el barro que resbala mucho,” the woman commented.

A woman and her husband drove through the destroyed paths of the Metro de Paiporta.
A woman and her husband drove through the destroyed paths of the Metro de Paiporta.FB

Muy cerca, a young man who has the hands of his car and is a few meters further away so that the car is not ready yet. “Lo estamos buscando,” dice before you start the discussion because there is no humor for you. The communication partner had lost contact with a desperate friend, but the communication was very poor, he was interrupted and shortly afterwards he was waiting. Tal vez es el amigo el que ha aparecido. You cannot turn off the device because it does not have a battery.

A barbaridad

He too was despondent from carpentry to this day and lamented Manolo García, 72 years old. “It is a barbaridad, the water has arrived and is desperate. Nunca ha paado nada igual, ni en la riada del 57″, afirm.

The alcaldesa of Paiporta, Maribel Albalat, did not ask for a precise declaration of death until the first hour of the Lord. “Fallecidos en Paiporta hay decenas. “I have made a lot of numbers, but the officials have not even decided on an exact number,” says the speaker, who received this assignment on behalf of the Guardia Civil and the UME. Historically, people unfamiliar with Paiporta have been directed to the Comandancia de la Guardia Civil on Calle Calamocha de València.

Paiporta, with 25,000 inhabitants, one of the most affected municipalities in Horta Sud. We are in the urban districts and industrial poles separated from Valencia and the enormous challenge of Nuevo Turia, which must be discovered by its numerous motorists flying over the Gran Riada del 57. Once through the port and entering Valencia, the mobile device now works again, there are no water problems, no light; no hay barro, no hay wagons destrozados ni amontonados. A completely different world than just a few kilometers away.

In Paiporta there are a multitude of vehicles caused by the DANA, that is millions.
In Paiporta there are a multitude of vehicles caused by the DANA, that is millions.Manu Bruque (EFE)

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