(1 Nov 2024)
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Chiva, Valencia area, Spain – 1 November 2024
1. Various top shots of debris-filled ravine, damaged houses
2. Tractor taking away debris as clean-up continues, pan to cars piled up
3. Residents helping to clear debris in mud-filled street, placing debris on back of truck
4. Wide of group of volunteers of Valencia-based NGO, InVisibles walking through street
5. Various of water station, residents collecting and handing out water
STORYLINE:
Three days after historic flash floods swept through several towns in southern Valencia, in eastern Spain, the initial shock was giving way to anger, frustration and a wave of solidarity on Friday.
Many streets are still blocked by piled-up vehicles and debris, in some cases trapping residents in their homes. Some places still don’t have electricity, running water, or stable telephone connections.
In the badly-hit town of Chiva, near Valencia, where it rained more in eight hours than it had in the preceding 20 months, volunteers picked through the mud and cleared the streets of debris.
Among those helping was a team of volunteers from theValencia-based NGO, InVisibles, who work with the city’s homeless.
With no water, gas or electricity, water stations have been set up around the town and food and clothing was also being distributed to those that lost their homes in the floods.
Scientists trying to explain what happened see two likely connections to human-caused climate change.
One is that warmer air holds and then dumps more rain.
Another is possible changes in the jet stream – the river of air above land that moves weather systems across the globe – that spawn extreme weather.
The extreme weather event came after Spain battled with prolonged droughts in 2022 and 2023.
Experts say that drought and flood cycles are increasing with climate change.
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