PAIPORTA, Spain, Nov 10 — The water was already knee-high on the ground floor of the hotel where Aitana Puchal had taken refugee when she received a text alert from the regional...
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Dozens of inhabitants of flooded communities told Reuters that by the time they received the regional government’s alert, muddy water was already surrounding their cars, submerging streets of their towns and pouring into their homes. The national weather service AEMET had raised its threat level for heavy rains to a red alert at 7.36am on October 29, following heavy rains in mountainous areas west of the city of Valencia from the early morning.
“At school, they gave talks about fires,” she said. “But not floods.” That, combined with poor coordination among regional and national authorities as well as political decisions taken years ago not to invest in waterways infrastructure, worsened the calamitous loss of life, seven experts consulted by Reuters said.
One central government source said they expect multiple judicial enquiries to examine decisions made and to attribute responsibility for the high death toll. At 8.45am, the regional branch of AEMET posted footage on the social media platform X showing cars being swept down roads by a tide of brown water.
At a news conference at lunchtime, he cited a national weather forecast saying the storm’s intensity would decrease around 6pm, according to a tweet he later deleted. At 6.43pm, CHJ sent another email warning that the flow of water through the ravine had reached 1,686 cubic metres per second—more than triple the pace of the Ebro, Spain’s largest river.
Maria Isabel Albalat, the mayor of Paiporta, which lies in the outskirts of the city of Valencia, said she called the national government delegate in the region to tell her that “my town was flooding” and “people were already dying.” Police drove through the town with sirens, lights and loudspeakers telling people to stay off the bridge and leave the streets.
Mazon, the regional head, later said the CHJ data showing water flows declining had added to the confusion and delays. Moran, whose department oversees the CHJ, told Reuters its task was just to provide real time information to emergency teams, not to make decisions on their response.
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