Five days have passed and Spain remains in a state of shock after the historic storm that shook the Valencian Community and certain regions of Castile-La Mancha last Tuesday, October 29. Always There are thousands of people who are completely cut off from all communication and there are also hundreds of people missing..
There are many faces acquaintances who tell in the first person how they experience this whole situation and how they spent this tragic night. One of them was Maximo Huerta (53 years old) who was going to Madrid to present his new book, my little bookstore.
The arrival of DANA put an end to their plans and he was one of those affected. The A3 motorway became completely impassable and, after several hours stuck in his car, the writer managed to reach his home in Buñol.
“I finally reconnected with my family, we were kept incommunicado“, he wrote on his X profile (former Twitter) this Friday, November 1. A few hours later, the journalist also went live on The window by Cadena Ser to tell his situation in the first person and ask listeners to help him.
Although he resides in Buñol, his entire family lives in Utiel.: “We were cut off, without radio, without telephone, because there was no light. My mother asked me what was happening, but I couldn’t give him an answer. These three days have been desperate. We knew nothing about the family, what was happening, or how serious the next morning would be. “I have already been able to speak to my cousins, who lost their car.”
He and his mother, Clara Hernández, are safe and healthy.. “She is with me, she is lucky, but I imagine all the elderly people who may be in an apartment or who have been left alone.” It is good to remember that The journalist is also an only child and has devoted himself to taking care of his mother for some time.whose health has been affected by dementia.
“When you suffer from mental illness you live in a continuous present, what you said 10 minutes ago you forget, the present continuous comes back and asks you the same thing again, that’s why he is not aware of everything, of the drama“, he explains about his mother’s condition.
On his return to Buñol, Máximo Huerta took the opportunity to walk around your city with your pet, Ms. Leo. Through his social networks, he wanted to tell what he saw and how the city changed after the tragedy. “I spoke with the neighbors, we told each other details and we asked each other questions among friends. This afternoon, I took another walk in the old town, the photos you see date from some time ago. Part of the museum, formerly a church, has collapsed. The rest of the videos show the destruction. There are no deaths in Buñol,” he shares with a series of posts where you can see how DANA devastated everything.
