PAIPORTA, Spain — The pictures of the smiling toddlers on the wall somehow survived.
Piled up cars block a street after floods in Massanassa, just outside of Valencia, Spain, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024.
Volunteers wait after thousands showed up to be assigned work schedules to help with the clean up operation after floods in Valencia, Spain, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024. People embrace each other in an area affected by floods in Paiporta, a town in the region of Valencia, Spain, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024. The water level is visible on a wall next to some family photographs in Paiporta, a town in the region of Valencia, Spain, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024.
Children’s drawings hang on the wall of a daycare center, showing the water level in area affected by floods in Paiporta, a town in the region of Valencia, Spain, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024. A man cleans the street of mud in an area affected by floods in Valencia, Spain, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024. People clean the street of mud in an area affected by floods in Paiporta, a town in the region of Valencia, Spain, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024. Most everything else in the daycare — the cradles, the highchairs, the toys — was ruined when a crushing wall of water swept through Paiporta, turning the Valencia municipality of 30,000 into the likely epicenter of Spain’s deadliest natural disaster in living memory.
Four days have passed since the tsunami-like floods swept through the southern outskirts of Valencia city, covering many communities with sticky, thick mud. The clean-up task ahead remains gargantuan, and the hunt for bodies continues. Lidia Giménez, a school teacher, watched from her second-story apartment as the usually dry canal that divides the town — “Barranco del Poyo” — went from completely empty to overflowing within 15 minutes. She called the aftermath of the flood “a battlefield without bombs.”The storm had unleashed a downpour upstream. That deluge then hurled toward Paiporta and other areas closer to the Mediterranean coast that were devastated by the flash floods.
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