Eight days ago, the worst DANA of the century swept Valencia and, in its path, the water has left more than 200 people dead, as well as almost a hundred missing. In the midst of the chaos, residents of the affected towns are trying to clean up the streets to recover what is left of their lives.
Thus, last Monday, Joaquín Prat moved to Paiportaone of the municipalities most affected by the torrent of water. From there, the presenter of Let’s see has offered the program’s microphone so that neighbors to express how they feel and what they need. after the disaster.
In this way, we have been able to know what is the feeling of the neighbors of the Valencian town that, indignant at the lack of foresight and resourceslast Sunday they received the kings and the authorities with mud.
This Wednesday, after three intense days of collecting testimonies from the neighbors, Joaquín Prat has dismissed Let’s see with a forceful speech: “People here are up to their necks in shitthat’s the reality. In two minutes that you stop, a person comes by and tells you that, please, they need the sewers to flow because it is impossible to get the water out of the houses and out of the street. if the sewers are not unblocked”.
“Please don’t have so many cars parked or so much heavy machinery parked on the side because we don’t get food and we need hot food. Carmen told me that why they didn’t warn us beforeThey took the elderly out of the day center, but his father-in-law, who lived in social housing, was not notified in time and is now missing….”
“This, little by little, is getting better but it’s still absolute chaos and these people need help. today and they will need it for many weeks and even months to come. Things need to be coordinated a little bit better. This has to invite a deep reflection. Earlier, a very authoritative source told me that how is it possible that if they are seeing how the water is coming down from Utiel and from Chiva… If they had had one hour there would have been nobody in the street, there would have been a tragedy in material damagesBut there would have been no loss of life. How is that possible?
“There has been an approved emergency protocol since 2003. We are in 2024. Damn all of you who have not applied it.. You have to be here to see the pain of these people. We have tried to give them a voice and reflect reality, but what is here is much worse than what we can show on any television program. We have made the effort and I think it was worth it,” said Joaquín Prat.