A completely different landscape. An image captured by satellite. The one that shows how everything has changed in Valencia in what is the worst DANA seen in years in the province. A situation which, so far, has left more than 200 dead and a very high number of missing and which has left the entire area completely unrecognizable.
This is what we see in the images that illustrate this text. The first, captured before DANA; the second after. The differences, in comparison, are evident with a photograph, the one on the right, in which water, or mud, has dyed everything brown.
With the Turia acting as a damthe southern area of the river, where areas such as Paiporta or Catarroja appear. covered in mud. Whereas before the streets and buildings were visible without problem, now everything is brown. You can barely see anything other than mud.
In Chiva, 500 liters per square meter in eight hours
All this, after two days of intense rains that caused damage in areas like those mentioned previously and others like Picanya, Alfajar and Chiva, where almost 500 liters of water per square meter in just eight hours. To give us an idea, this is equivalent to a year’s worth of precipitation.
The streets, from one image to another, They became rivers covered in mud and mud. The buildings were destroyed. Vehicles, driven by the current. For now, more than 200 dead.
In addition, the cultivated area near the Mediterranean changed from a green color to a completely brown color due to the advance of the mud. Everything destroyed.
Meanwhile, citizens in affected areas are waiting for help. In the form of food. Clothes. Water. Of all that precedes the one who is one of the worst floods recorded in Spain.
