This Wednesday, October 30, a DANA (Isolated High Level Depression) has devastated the east and south of the peninsula. Unfortunately 95 people have lost their lives, we send our condolences and condolences to their families, hoping that the dozens of missing tonight are safe. It is estimated that more than 1000 people are still trapped...

The troops sent by the police, UME, firefighters and civil guard have rescued thousands of people who have been rescued from their homes, roofs and cars. As well as their pets. The animal shelters of Valencia, Jerez, etc. are asking for foster homes for these days.

Most affected areas.

In the province of Valencia, the small municipality of Utiel was completely isolated with access cut off by road due to the overflow of the Magro River.

In addition to this Valencian town, Torrente, Paiporta, La Ribera, Requena and Huerta Sur, are other areas most affected by the floods and some are still without water, electricity or coverage.

The Picanya bridge (Valencia) has collapsed due to the flood of the Poyo ravine, which crosses the municipalities of Paiporta and Picanya.

Letur, a town in Albacete, is another of the most devastated by the DANA. In Andalusia it has left more than a thousand accidents.

Trains suspended by Adif and Guigo:

Adif has reported that trains from Madrid to Valencia, both high-speed and medium-speed, have been suspended, as well as the connection with Barcelona and the Cercanías hub. The Seville-Valencia AVE does not work either.

Long and medium distance services from Valencia-Alicante-Murcia, as well as medium distance services between Valencia-Tortosa, Albacete-Alcázar de San Juan, Valencia-Aragón are also suspended.

Iryo and Ouigo also cancel their trips between Valencia and Madrid due to the state of the roads.

These three companies must offer compensation for the tickets when claiming them at their offices.

Roads closed:

Numerous roads remain closed as can be seen in this complete list of the DGT posted on the DGT website. 

Unfortunately, the looting and robberies of flooded shops is beginning, as reported on social networks and at the scene.

The Government announces the declaration of a catastrophic area in the areas devastated by the DANA and declares three days of official mourning.

The DANA that has affected October 30 will leave a precedent of what has not been done in terms of forecasting and warning to citizens and will foreseeably modify the management of emergencies and warnings in Spain. On social media, it is reported that the Aemet had already announced the DANA this Sunday. The Júcar Hydrographic Confederation had also warned this Tuesday of the DANA.

Other major historical floods:

La Riada de Consuegra, Toledo, 1891. The overflow of the Amarguillo River caused 359 people to die and the town disappeared.

In the city of Vic in 1863, the Méder River rose more than seven meters. they demolished about thirty houses, killing all the animals and people who lived there.

Great flood of Valencia. In 1957 the city of Valencia was flooded, causing at least 81 deaths. Later, the new course of the Turia River was built.

The Amancio Ortega Foundation, through its current president Flora Pérez and vice president José Arnau Sierra, hands over the keys to the Xunta of the third of the seven residences promised in 2019. It will start operating in 2025 and is located in the A Eiriña neighbourhood of Pontevedra.

This avant-garde centre is equipped with 120 places in 42 double rooms and 36 single rooms, it also has a hairdresser, gym, rehabilitation, psychogeriatrics, podiatry, etc.

Alfonso Rueda, president of the Xunta, has announced that in this coming year they also expect to deliver those of Coruña, Ferrol and Orense.

Currently, those in Lugo and Santiago are already in operation.

Red alert at sea in the Baixas estuary this morning due to force winds 10 due to the extratropical storm of what was Hurricane Kirk of force 4.In 2006 alone, a similar storm had arrived from Hurricane Gordon of Force 3, both hurricanes had strayed from their route to the Caribbean, reaching Europe.

Many Spanish and Portuguese communities are on alert until Thursday that Kirk will arrive in France.

The Concello de Vigo has closed parks and beaches as well as the Paseo de Bouzas and the Las Avenidas gardens of the port of Vigo, without being able to access the jetty during the highlands. Floods are feared in low areas of Vigo as the highlands coincide with the largest discharge of rains, both on Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. and on Wednesday between 7 and 9, coinciding with the high tide just after 8:00 a.m. Aqualia has already reviewed the sewerage and sinks.

There are concerns about rivers such as Lagares in Vigo, the Teo river in Rianxo, the Miño river as it passes through Gondomar, etc. Soutomaior and Sobroso Castle will also remain closed.

The company Air Europa has canceled the flights on this October 9 from / to Vigo, Porto, Bilbao and A Coruña. Regular transportation along the Vigo Ria between Moaña and Cangas with the olive city has also been canceled.

While the storm Kirk did not touch land while it was a hurricane, Hurricane Milton is expected to do so in the southeastern United States, specifically in Florida, where it is being alerted to evacuate both people and animals.

The period for choosing a reference hospital has just opened, either the (CHUVI) Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Vigo or Rivera Povisa

The application must be submitted to the health centre via the internet, on the Sergas website, or at the admissions office of said centres. The deadline is from this Tuesday until the 30th of this month.

Sergas beneficiaries from the health centres of the municipalities of Cangas, Baiona, Nigrán, Moaña, as well as patients from the health centres of Coia, Nicolás Peña, Coruxo, Navia, López Mora, Bouzas, Pintor Colmeiro, Rosalía and Beiramar may also make use of the right to choose a reference centre.

Most young Spaniards cannot understand that laws are made to protect their pets and other living beings while others are subjected to torture and exhibition to death.

Recently laws have been enacted to protect animals from all forms of torture such as Law 7/2023, of March 28, for the protection of the rights and welfare of animals. Silencing the world of bulls, which are obviously animals like any other and are tortured to death for the enjoyment of a few and to enrich others.

This is bullfighting, the Spanish “fiesta” that is likely to be eradicated in the near future because of the human savagery it represents and in the face of the other countries of the European Union. The other member states see it as a delay typical of Roman times, when people and animals were executed for the amusement of other people in the Roman Coliseum.

Recently a Popular Initiative Law is gathering the 500,000 signatures needed for a popular initiative bill that seeks the eradication of this evil called art in its page Not my culture, in person in a number of locations such as the Vegan fair to be held in IFEVI this coming Saturday 26 and Sunday October 27 in Vigo.

You can also click on this link to read the full text of the law and on this link to leave your signature.

The suppression of the National Bullfighting Award has already taken effect since this year in Spain.