(1 Nov 2024)
SPAIN FLOODS ANALYSIS
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
LENGTH: 5:34
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Valencia, Spain – 31 October 2024
1. Cyclist passing piled-up cars
2. Tractor working as people clean street
3. Various of vehicles in flood waters
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Reading, UK – 1 November 2024
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Hannah Cloke, Professor of Hydrology at Reading University:
"It’s actually really difficult to unpick exactly what’s caused these floods because there are so very many contributing factors. Yes, there’s been really a load of rain falling in this region, really unusual amounts of rain from this storm system. But actually, there’s a lot of other stuff going on, too. We’ve got a lot of people in the way of the floods. So, a lot of people living in at-risk areas. We’ve had quite a good forecast of the weather of the rain that was going to come. But those warnings then did not reach the people on the ground as well. And people were surprised by the floods, or they didn’t know what to do when they did hear those warnings."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Utiel, Valencia, Spain – 30 October 2024
5. Residents sweeping mud from homes
6. Various of furniture in muddy street
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Reading, UK – 1 November 2024
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Hannah Cloke, Professor of Hydrology at Reading University:
"Receiving warnings of an upcoming flood is an easy way of keeping yourself safe and your homes not damaged as well. You can take actions to prepare your homes for these types of floods. The fact that we didn’t hear those warnings, we saw people on the ground saying they hadn’t received the warnings in time, they were already neck-deep in water when they got those alerts on their cell phones, that suggests something has gone very wrong there with the warning system."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Valencia, Spain – 31 October 2024
8. Woman putting water and supplies into trolley to take to elderly neighbours
9. Residents with supplies in trolleys
10. Man using stick to fish debris from canal
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Reading, UK – 1 November 2024
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11. SOUNDBITE (English) Hannah Cloke, Professor of Hydrology at Reading University:
"It’s really important to have multiple channels of warnings. You can’t just rely on one thing. If the cell broadcast network goes down, then you need another way of getting that message to people. And, of course, there are many people who don’t use cell phones as well, particularly those older people and also children, of course. They need to know what to do. So lots and lots of different methods of communication, including local people going around, perhaps having a flood warden, making sure that everybody has got that message."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Valencia, Spain – 31 October 2024
12. Various of residents walking through muddy street flanked by damaged cars
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Reading, UK – 1 November 2024
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13. SOUNDBITE (English) Hannah Cloke, Professor of Hydrology at Reading University:
"When we have the landscape really parched because of a drought, that becomes very hard and the water can run off very, very quickly. And in these circumstances, that means that when it rains, that water rushes downstream very, very quickly to the places where people are living and causing all of this damage. So there is a relationship between drought and making floods worse."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
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14. Various aerials of dry, cracked reservoir bed
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Reading, UK – 1 November 2024
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