(1 Nov 2024)
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Chiva, Spain – 1 November 2024
1. Various aftermath house collapsing into river
2. Various of Juan Vicente Perez pointing to his house along river
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Juan Vicente Perez, 63yrs, retired factory worker:
“All my life there, all my memories, my parents lived there and now overnight and for five minutes we are almost not alive”
4. Juan receiving hug from neighbor
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Juan Vicente Perez, 63yrs, Retired factory worker:
“There was no warning, I think in the end it was too much for everyone… it’s true that they should have been warned but in those circumstances I don’t think anyone could have done anything. It was something out of the ordinary, never seen before in my age and in my parents’ age.”
6. Juan entering abandoned home
7. Interior of destroyed house
8. Close of picture on wall
9. View onto river from house next door that has collapsed
10. Various Juan taking photos for insurance claim
11. Juan by his house with belongings out in the street
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Juan Vicente Perez, 63yrs, Retired factory worker:
“Everything I have, I don’t have anything else, now I am left in the street, I have nothing, I have no other property, I have nothing.”
13. Various of destruction alongside the river
14. People clearing out houses
15. People standing on bridge
16. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Conchin Vidal, 60yrs, housewife
“Everything full of water, we went to my daughter’s house who lives opposite, in a group of houses and the water was coming in from one side and coming out from the other. She is pregnant and about to give birth and with a two and a half year old girl, there was more and more water on the steps… I can’t talk anymore.”
17. Various of Conchin leaving
18. Various of destroyed houses along river bank
19. Various of residents cleaning houses and streets
20. Volunteers arriving
21. Wide of town council building
22. Various of volunteers distributing aid
23. Local resident Gerard Plumer, student, 19 yrs talking to local council
24. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gerard Plumer, 19, student:
“Horrible, pure anxiety, my parents and I are trying to keep the house from flooding, it was a total hell, luckily we didn’t have the same damage as in the village, but we are mentally screwed up, the truth is that I want this to end soon.”
25. Various Gerard picks up supplies from help point
26. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gerard Plumer, 19yrs, Student:
“We have electricity, but we are like everyone else, we don’t have any water and the connection is bad but we are trying to call friends and family to recover the little bit of morale that we have left.”
27. Gerard leaving
STORYLINE:
Juan Vicente Perez and his wife had to leave in panic as the flood waters of the nearby canal rose suddenly last Tuesday in Valencia.
His family home, where he and his parents have lived for over 50 years hangs over the canal that saw deadly flash floods.
Juan breaks down in tears as he reflects on what has happened and what his future is.
“Everything I have, I don’t have anything else, now I am left in the street, I have nothing, I have no other property, I have nothing.”, he said.
Juan is retired from an olive processing factory and his only income is the state pension.
He and his wife are staying with his sister-in-law, but that house doesn’t have running water or electricity like most of Chivas, a small town 30 kilometers outside Valencia.
AP Video by Iain Sullivan and Alicia Leon
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