Valencia Floods
As we took off from Malaga airport and looked down at the coastline, it was clear to see how the floods had turned the sea brown with mud an debris washed of the land. And it was also becoming clear how devastating the flooding had been in the Valencia region on the East coast of Spain. As I write (Thursday evening – two days on) the death toll is 158, and may still go up. This picture, sourced from Instagram, conveys the power and devastation of the torrents of water that flowed through Spain on Tuesday:
and there are countless images and videos like that. As I said in my earlier post, we never felt unsafe, but we were just lucky and in a region that, whilst badly affected, was nowhere near as badly hit as the Valencia region. Having seen the water racing through gullys, across fields, alongside (and, sometimes, across) roads, we witnessed the untamable power of these flash floods. My heart and thoughts are with the people of Spain at this time. For once, I am grateful to be back in England, but I look forward to one day returning to Spain, we still have so much to see and do there.
