Mud, cars, furniture, more mud, more cars, more furniture and more mud. Almost a month has passed since DANA devastated many towns in Valencia, but the mud is still present in the main municipalities affected. And the stench emanating from all this mass of waste, as well as that of clogged sewage, is beginning to despair its inhabitants.
Although, little by little, the image is returning to normal in some areas, in the most affected cities there are still no schools, with their main municipal infrastructure destroyed and living in the middle of a landfill temporary that seems permanent.
Meanwhile, the help of volunteers continues to serve as encouragement in the face of feelings of abandonment. This weekend alone, thousands of volunteers once again descended on towns south of Valencia to work piecemeal alongside emergency crews and clear mud, vehicles and personal belongings from the streets.
But people are fed up. Among them, the mayors of three of the municipalities concerned, Catarroja, Paiporta and Benetússer, who signed a joint declaration denouncing an “unacceptable” delay in actions due to “lack of coordination”.
Lorena Silvent, Maribel Albalat and Eva Sanzsocialist councilors respectively of the aforementioned municipalities, asked to be represented at the Emergency Coordination Center (Cecopi), the place “where decisions are taken, but remotely, without walking on the ground and without knowing and taking into account the reality “. of our people, which leads to a lack of coordination”, they denounced, according to EFE.
Mayors express also feeling “abandoned” and they highlight “a total lack of rapid and effective actions on the part of the Emergency to respond to the many problems facing their municipalities and their neighbors, who are tired and can’t take it anymore.”
They also criticize the “inefficiency, lack of coordination and clear guidelines” face the devastating consequences that DANA has caused in their localities.
