‘There’s no time to be sad, we have to find solutions’published at 16:11 Greenwich Mean Time
Bethany Bell
Reporting from Torre, Valencia
Today, I watched as the mud-stained
contents of someone’s home in Torre in Valencia, were bulldozed away.
Mattresses, furniture and a fridge were dumped into a skip. A pink toddler’s
bicycle, emblazoned with a picture of Minnie Mouse, lay against a smashed-up
car.
The mud on the streets is beginning
to dry, and the air is now full of dust.
Thousands of volunteers keep
arriving to help with the cleanup – and to deliver much needed supplies.
Santiago told me he was taking food to a
friend, whose house is a “very bad” state. “We’re going to clean.” Santiago
said he had tried to reach her house yesterday, but couldn’t because of the
cars piled up in front.
“The access was impossible,” he said. “But she told us
that the cars have been removed, so now we can go.”
He told me his friend “has no time
to be sad because she has to find solutions. It is what it is.”
