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Impassable roads, hundreds of people trapped,

Madrid

, completely collapsed by snow ... But it is not the only thing

Filomena

leaves

in the capital.

The heavy snowfall that has fallen since Friday in

Madrid

has left many homes in the community

without water

, due to the freezing of the pipes,

without light

and

without heating

with temperatures outside below zero degrees.

"We woke up this morning without any water. The pipes are completely frozen."

The speaker is Pedro Tamayo, a neighbor

on Dulce Chacón Street

, in the Las Tablas area, where at least 240 homes have run out of water as the pipes in some of the blocks in that area have frozen.

"The whole street is impassable,"

Pedro tells EL MUNDO, who, anticipating the situation, has tried to go this morning to buy jugs of water.

A path for experts, since the snow covered him above the knee.

"The first time I went, the supermarket was open; the second time, they had already closed it.

There is no water, neither hot nor cold, and neither heating

. Some neighbors are going to try to defrost the pipes with heaters and radiators", Explain.

The neighbors have contacted the Administrator of the property to try to find a solution, although they are aware that it will be difficult to access the building since it is impossible to walk on the street given the large amount of accumulated snow.

"We do not know how long it will last and

the emergency services have other priorities

. In addition, it is impossible to access the street," he acknowledges quietly, like many of the neighbors who are not alarmed by the situation at the moment.

One of the urbanizations without water.

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One of the urbanizations without water.

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But it is not the only place in Madrid that is experiencing the same situation.

Almudena, who resides in the

Puerta de Toledo area

(south of the capital) has woken up surrounded by snow, like all Madrilenians, and without heating because a plate of ice plugged the outlet of the boiler tube, with which it also the water is heated in your home.

He has had to devise a contraption with the stick of the catcher and a Chinese food toothpick to

"start the ice"

and get the shot of the boiler free so that it works again, he explains to the Efe agency.

Having solved this problem, he now fears that the pipes of the building will freeze and he will run out of water, as has happened to Sol in a floor of

a building in Chamberí

, built more than 100 years ago.

"The pipes in my apartment, located on the fifth floor,

are in the courtyard and have frozen,

" explains Sol, who has been without water since early in the morning, thus having had to resort to the help of neighbors who They have refilled some basins and hopefully let him take a shower throughout the day if the situation continues.

In the

Eduardo Dato area

, in the capital, the pipes of some buildings are also beginning to freeze, which are also beginning to run out of water.

According to neighboring neighbors, several people are seen dodging the snow to buy jugs of water.

In the district of Tetuán, in the Almenara neighborhood, they have also been without water since this Friday.

"We have contacted Canal Isabel II. Yesterday they tried to fix it. They dug a hole, which is now covered by snow. This morning we called again and they told us that around 6:00 p.m. it would surely be fixed. Hopefully ... At the moment we know that we are several neighbors who are without water. We

are collecting snow to have water for the basics,

"says Mila, a neighbor of one of the affected buildings, who assures that it has been impossible for them to contact the Madrid Administration and that" at least there is a block of affected neighbors. "

33 hours without water

The passage of the storm

Filomena

is also wreaking havoc in some towns in

the Sierra de Madrid

.

This is the case of

Sara

and her family of five members and four dogs in the town of

La Acebeda

, where they have been without water since 4 a.m. on Friday.

"We have contacted the Canal de Isabel II multiple times, and we have told them that we are a family of five with an eleven-year-old child (in addition to four animals, who consume water just like us), and the only solution they have given us is that we apply dry heat to the meter and that they write down our case, but they are saturated and cannot attend to us at the moment. We have followed the instructions but no matter how

much heat we put, it does not work

because there must be an internal break in some pipe ", he says

Sara

, very worried because the hours are passing and the water that they are rationing begins to run out.

Exit from La Acebeda to the A-1, completely collapsed.

The situation of Sara and her family begins to be worrying after 33 hours without water.

As he tells EL MUNDO, at the moment, they are throwing away bottled water, defrosting snow to wash it down and going to the only source in town where the water runs.

"In

La Acebeda

there are also no shops or supermarkets, and right now the road is blocked by snow and we cannot go to other towns for water. Right now a neighbor is trying to clear the road with his vehicle, but

the snowfall is too much copious,

"he explains.

"In the last call to the canal, today at six o'clock in the morning, they told us that they apologize but that because of the state of the roads they find it very difficult to access us. We sincerely hope that nothing serious happens in the town during this day, because if there is an emergency

we do not know how we are going to manage

", asks

Sara

, really worried because right now the snow does not stop falling in the area and the temperature is -4º.

The snow has also left residents of the town of

Hoyo de Manzanares

without electricity, with a temperature of minus two degrees below zero, as well as many without Wi-Fi.

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