8 DAYS AFTER THE FLOOD IN UTIEL

BGUK_3080167 - 8 DAYS AFTER THE FLOOD IN UTIEL. © THE PHOTO ONE. CODE: Dave Highlands. Utiel, Valencia, Spain, 6 November 2024. 8 days after the catastrophic floods in the province of Valencia affecting 69 towns, people works hard to return to normality. Utiel is one of those towns that were under the water and mud in a few minutes because of the enormous storms, a town where the water arrived overflowing the river Magro and reaching up to three meters high above the river, flooding ground floor homes and commercial establishments to the ceiling, ruining houses, enterprises, farms, meadows, stocks and harvests, and mudding fields, streets, homes, and probably all the cars of its population. Even coffins of the local morgue were found in away farms. Utiel is not a town with more victims, but the authorities count six casualties in this village plus still an uncertain number of missing people, and the search tasks to retrieve bodies remain at at the time of cleaning and restoring running water, sewerage, power, communications and public services, as well as the access structures to restore domestic and economic activities. An enormous reconstruction of private belongings, public goods and whole lives, extended through a huge area of in all these towns mainly made by legions of volunteers and private donations, due to the insufficient aid of the State authorities. DANA, INUNDACION, BARRO, CATASTROFE