Drinking water tanks and fish in the streets

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After the great storms of recent days, this Saturday's day started relatively quiet in Orihuela . Some neighbors drank a coffee in a bar near the Town Hall, the teachers of a nursery school cleaned with the hose the small tables and chairs of their students while curious and journalists took pictures of the water mass - already controlled - that ran under the bridges of the historical case.

It seemed incredible that many of these streets had been flooded 24 hours before , an emergency situation still in force, as recorded by the noise of the helicopters of the Emergency Military Unit flying over the entire region.

And, although Segura ended up moderating its flow, another extremely dangerous situation brought several municipalities in the area back into focus. On Friday at noon the river broke its containment at the height of the Algorfa bridge and the water began to shoot out, destroying everything it found in its path.

The first municipality he found was Almoradí, where they were already working to supply drinking water with four large tanks to the population, after the supply system burst. "The population would have flooded anyway because the ditches were already overflowing. However, when the river's retaining wall broke, a huge amount of water began to arrive at great speed and by mid afternoon it was already covered, " he explains the mayor of Almoradí, María Gómez.

The worst moments occurred during the afternoon and to this was added the controlled desembalse of the Santomera swamp, which provided even more water to the Segura riverbed, complicating everything even more. Although work began on the repair work of the leak from the early hours of Thursday afternoon, Saturday had still been impossible. Despite this, the water ended up finding its natural exit to the sea , flooding other municipalities like San Fulgencio or Dolores.

Fish through the streets of Daya Vieja (Alicante)

In the latter municipality, the Local Police and Firefighters had to move with tractors because the water covered practically up to the waist . By combining the transfers of people to the enabled shelter, the agents were distributing essential food and medicines this afternoon, while the electricity supply in the City Council was restored and an attempt was made to replace the drinking water network.

Thus, the residents saw the afternoon fall with the hope that the water would gradually drop and thus return to normal.

And -as whenever possible, you have to try to put a good face in bad weather-, the funniest note was put by some neighbors of Daya Vieja who were surprised and recorded with their mobile phones some fish crossing the road to incorporate intuitively to the riverbed.

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