Within the city of Algemesi, they are saying the floods hit with out warning.
Water barrels down the road, bringing with it thick, stinking mud that coats each floor in sight.
As we slosh by the slippery mud-slick, we meet Bernardo who’s attempting to brush it out of his house.
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Bernardo who was attempting to scrub grime from his house
Nevertheless a lot he scrubs and cleans, the flooring stay coated in grime.
“The disaster is enormous, I’ve never seen anything like it in my whole life,” he says.
He estimates a number of the homes had been full of virtually two metres of water.
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Care house submerged by Spain floods
Many are actually with out energy after the flooding acquired into the electrics.
For a lot of the day, residents have been attempting to restore the harm. However as we stroll by the city, snapshots are nonetheless seen.
Two eating room chairs stand exterior a home.
Their as soon as good velvet cushions now soggy and discoloured.
Additional alongside, large pumps spray water out from individuals’s cellars.
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What triggered the floods in Spain?
In one other avenue, vehicles are gathered in a chaotic bunch – stranded the place the water left them.
Bernardo reveals us a video of the rapid aftermath.
Vehicles stand on their bonnets within the street as shocked locals take within the scene.
He estimates that round half the city’s automobiles have been broken.
And the distress is not remoted to Algemesi – it is a ache repeated in communities throughout southeast Spain.
