Mud cakes her boots, splatters her leggings and the gloves holding her broom. Brown specks freckle her cheeks.
People clear mud from the street after floods in Massanassa, just outside of Valencia, Spain, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024.
“I never thought this could happen. It moves me to see my town in this shape,” Montero tells The Associated Press. “We have always had autumn storms, but nothing like this.” Newcomers are easy to spot because they are clean, but a few steps down Chiva's slippery cobblestones and they are quickly marked with mud.
“Entire houses have disappeared. We don’t know if there were people inside or not,” Mayor Amparo Fort told RNE radio.There are so many people coming to help the hardest-hit areas that the authorities have asked them not to drive or walk there, because they are blocking the roads needed by the emergency services.
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