9 DAYS AFTER THE FLOOD IN CHIVA

BGUK_3080670 - 9 DAYS AFTER THE FLOOD IN CHIVA. ©†THE PHOTO ONE. CODE: Dave Highlands. Chiva, Valencia, Spain, 7 November 2024. 9 days after the catastrophic floods in the province of Valencia affecting 69 towns, people works hard to return to normality. Chiva 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. Chiva has casualties among its neighbors, plus still an uncertain number of missing people, maybe some of the non yet identified 62 bodies found, and the search tasks to retrieve disappeared people remain at the time of cleaning and restoring public services like running water, sewerage, power and communications, as well as the access structures to restore domestic and economic activities. An enormous reconstruction of private belongings, businesses, public goods and whole lives, extended through a huge area in all these towns has been done mainly so far by legions of volunteers and private donations, due to the insufficient aid of the State authorities, what makes the painful of population deeper. DANA, INUNDACION, BARRO, CATASTROFE