In the Doña Ana district of Cártama (Málaga), the rains intensified this Wednesday. It falls with intensity and neighbors build walls at the doors of their houses, small walls to cut off access to the water. We fear a new flood. “I lost everything 15 days ago. I kept what I was wearing. Everything I have in my house was given to me. “I had nothing left,” Paqui Pérez, a neighbor in this neighborhood, told ABC above the wall.
He admits that this time he raised the small wall. “The other time he skipped it. Now if the river overflows I hope it doesn’t come in“adds this neighbor, whose ex-husband has just plastered the joints. So far, no evictions have been reported. Civil Protection warned that for security reasons, it was advisable to leave the area. “No one forced us to leave,” he adds.
The images of the flooded center of Malaga, as well as La Axarquía or various areas of the Costa del Sol, are not flattering. We look askance at the Guadalhorce River, whose people have already been expelled from its banks. 3,000 peoplebut his passage through Álora is calm. Evictions continue in Campanillas, near the Doña Ana neighborhood of Cártama, where some residents are trying to resist.
House with walls on the door
There are almost no neighbors left on Emilia Pardo Bazán Street. Very little. Of the five houses in the neighborhood, only a couple and the girl’s father remain. “Of course I’m scared. The river is not clean and is overflowing with branches and all kinds of garbage, which is why it is overflowing. the last time two fingers were missing why jump over the wall. In the garage, he jumped on her and went under the door. We had to throw everything away,” explains Manuel Rodríguez, who took his dogs to a terrace so that they would not be in danger.
Manuel’s daughter explains that water is seeping through the walls and everywhere. For this reason, even though they have the wall in front of the door, they say they have not stopped removing the mud in recent days. “I spent five hours putting on towels so that it does not leak through the joints. Water comes in through the walls and everywhere,” says Manuel’s son-in-law.
On this same street, there are no more neighbors. After the last flood during which some were afraid and almost lost their lives, the majority left the area. There are no more neighbors in the areas closest to the river. The oldest have left with their children and those who remain are trying to resist.
