“At six o’clock in the afternoon the house broke down”. The cursed hour when the flood took away Rubén and Izan remained forever engraved in the memory of their grandmother Antonia. Both children were at home with their father when they lost power in Torrent. Seconds later, her devastated grandmother said, a truck hit the house.
“Two meters of water, my son held the hands of my grandchildren”, but the waterspout tore them away and the father lost sight of the two brothers aged three and five. He was able to climb a tree from which he hung for “five hours”. Antonia says that “we operated on him, he is in the operating room, but his legs are dusty”.
The tragedy this family is experiencing is terrible. The little ones’ aunt criticizes this “no eviction notice was given”. A question that Antonia reaffirms since “at six o’clock in the afternoon the flood already swept them away and at eight o’clock they raised the alarm”, she says, lamenting the loss of her grandchildren: “They have been my whole life.”
The family is asking for more help to locate them, even if they bring “machines to lift everything”, cries the children’s aunt. Rescue teams continue to search for missing people, Divers travel the Valencian coast trying to locate possible victims while searching the garages and basements of these areas most devastated by DANA and buildings are evacuated due to possible collapses.
During these seven days of tragedy, we too there are shocking images like the ones on these lines. It involves the rescue of a paralyzed man who had been floating in his house for several days. Now her sister can only say “thank you”.
