Spain flood survivors hurl mud at royals and top government officials

What were the Royals and Mazon doing and expecting to experience?

Better to have arrived in overalls carrying shovels for an afternoon of clearing debris, no?

Spaniard have their way in giving their king a "present"

There are still reports of hundreds dead in underground car parks.

Rubbernecking applies to all, blue blood or not,rich and poor…

The Spanish government is clearly well out of their depth in handling disasters like many other rich nations who seem to manage.

Hopefully other nearby nations will step in and provide the desperately needed help - rescue efforts, medical supplies, food and water.

Pray for Spain.

Over 200 dead.

This was the Valencia regional government's fault, not the king's.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2024/10/31/flooding-in-spain-valencia-region-authorities-criticized-for-failure-to-warn-of-imminent-disaster_6731131_114.html

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2024/11/01/flooding-in-spain-a-controversial-trade-off-between-public-safety-and-economic-interests_6731235_114.html

I guess, such an outlier behavior will significantly delay rebuilding efforts or financial help for those surviving communities. No one in this world should think he can bite into a helping hand without consequences. And of course it's already by logic quite weird to make a Royal couple or government responsible for torrential rainfalls and flooding.

My aunt's husband and her son escaped death by minutes. They were working in their workshop and the tsunami hit at 6:30 in the evening. They had to take refuge in the first tall building when the water was up to their bellies. The emergency alarm did not sound until 20:10 pm. My relatives did not return home with great difficulty until 14:00 in the afternoon. It took them 6 hours to travel the 4 and a half kilometers from their workshop to their home. And thanks to anonymous neighbors who gave them dry clothes and shoes.

How not to be angry about this. In addition to the fact that the Central government is refusing international aid. And if that were not enough, they are deploying very few army units, causing massive looting in unserviceable cars, businesses and even robberies with violence, in the homes themselves.

Everyone failed here, both the regional and central governments, and they are still failing right now. The army has 65,000 troops ready to be deployed. But by direct orders of the president of the government and the council of ministers. They refuse to do so. All to bring down the autonomous government of Mazón, which is of a different political sign from the Central Government. No more and no less. And the Mazón government is guilty for activating the emergency alarms too late. 

By the way. The provisional death toll is 217 at the time of writing this post.

By the way. In my previous post, I said that my relatives arrived at 14:00 in the afternoon. But it was the next day, when the water went down at 8 am.

Their workshop no longer exists and they are now out of work. They were self-employed as a small business. Fortunately no one in my family died.

This is what I wanted to clarify.