While almost a month has passed since the night the water swallowed up the earththe municipality most affected by DANA is trying to survive the most cruel and unjust sentence. The inhabitants of Paiporta continue cross off days on the calendar since that fateful October 29, as is the case of vice president of the football team from there.
José Manuel Calcerrada has been present on OKDIARIO since say what his people suffered with this catastrophe. The worst image you are left with is that of passing “three and a half hours underwater”. “Seeing a container with ten people on it as if it were a surfboard, see people staying in cars…what happened was catastrophic,” said the vice-president of Paiporta CF, recounting his experience when the torrential rain to the Valencian Community.
“You have a bad part and a good part leftit’s all the help received and the people who helped, especially within the club, everyone gave everything. For example, the players of the women’s team, who many of them are from Valencia and then they were logically less affected, they came to help. All the childrenolder and younger, also helped. We saw them in the streets carrying cars, gathering in series to take people who needed them,” says the vice-president of Paiporta enthusiastically.
On the day of the tragedy, Calcerrada emphasizes that The first thing he did was work in a group. to “check that everything was okay”, even if they had everything “made disorder in the houses and in the city”. “That was the most important thing.”
The vice-president of Paiporta explains that when the heavy floods arrived, Logically, no one had access to many cell phones.“you only had access by leaving town a bit to send things because In other cities, there was access data on mobile phones,” says Calcerrada. “So when two days passed, we already had very lucky that we were all able to send messagesthat everyone was okay. “A lot of our players have become stronger, including my children,” he adds.
