John um Clark is with us uh again he's
the editor of the olive press uh he's in
uh one of the areas that has been
hardest hit down towards Malaga Valencia
seems to be struggling significantly
John we're hearing four in four hours 13
inches of rain
fell yeah it's amazing K uh I was just
listening to you there and and your
commentators also got a geography degree
like me and uh so I'm sort of fascinated
by the meteorology conditions and how it
happens and and you know as I was
explaining earlier the Darna conditions
where they call it a g fre or cold drop
where you get this kind of cold air from
the north that drops into that very
moist warm air that's coming in from the
south and of course doesn't help the
Atlantic's been so warm and this
suddenly it creates this enormous storms
and we saw last night tornado in certain
parts of uh of Valencia I saw an
incredible kind of tornado literally
ripped someone's Terrace up uh watching
on the news around the Valencia area
where everything including the table on
their Terrace was just thrown in the air
and uh you know just incredibly strong
storms which which bring and I think I
was explaining earlier that some people
have had half a Year's rainfall in just
a matter of hours um so you can just
imagine when it's been so dry for two
years we've had very serious drought
conditions um firstly from El Nino and
then from lanin which was last year the
second year that that had that meant
that the ground's so so hard and so dry
and the reservoirs are empty that when
the rain hits heavily it just it just it
just works as runoff and it goes
straight down into rivers and and you
know into you Rivers flood quickly and
towns as you've seen in Inland Valencia
there's been a number of towns utl and
Renna um and turis and and quite a
number of these towns just just can't
survive you know with that much water
coming through and and a lot of these
places have these houses towns have been
there for hundreds and hundreds of years
um and you've seen kind of almost
medieval bridges that being Swept Away
in storms when you know big tree trumps
are hitting them and you know I don't
okay I mean what's happening is it's
it's just I think it's excavated by
global warming um it's quite terrifying
really what what warning was the given
John well we we knew that we were going
to get um heavy we knew we knew we were
going to get very heavy rainfall we knew
that dar conditions were here and we
expected a lot of rain but we didn't
expect quite this much um so you know
most people I would say yesterday in in
Amaya Inland Malaga mostly stayed at
home didn't go out on the roads I I
ventured out to have a look around and
there were quite a few places where
police had cut off roads because there
had been serious flooding and a couple
of rivers near us in Ronda had had burst
their Banks now we had some guests
coming to stay with us some friends
friends were coming to stay with us they
were coming from El churo which is where
the famous C Del re was and they were
stuck in the village and all three roads
out of el churo were blocked and the
police just said sorry you're going to
have to stay here so they had to stay
there for five hours uh in the town
couldn't move and while they they
somehow managed to kind of unblock the
roads and so they could get out and and
you know this is and this is in L Malaga
and it's nothing compared to Valencia I
think I was explaining to you earlier
how I was watching the news last night
and there were something like aund cars
stuck on the motorway on the A3 Motorway
that goes down from albet into Valencia
and they were told you're going to have
to sit and wait here you can't go either
back or forwards and they were sitting
there for hours and hours and the pitch
black it got to some 9:31 at night and
they they still there um and I I really
hope that they aren't some of these 51
people who've lost their lives that the
Emergency Services didn't manage to get
them out of their cars and to somewhere
safe but uh I do fear the worst I fear
that perhaps the Emergency Services were
were on the hot Pier they weren't there
quick enough um you know it's quite
clear that that now the the emergency
the fire emergency from the Army at um
as they're called are now on the ground
they've got helicopters up so I hope
that no there's be no more serious uh
threat to life today but I fear the
worst yeah we um obviously have a lot of
people uh watching us from that area
what advice are people what advice
should they
take well obviously going on your roof
if uh if it's getting bad I think I I I
can't see it getting above uh two floors
um so you know stay put and um you know
just keep very close eye on the IM met
uh weather station because they issue
warnings in fact that's now tied in most
to most people's phones now they can see
when there's emergency warnings and they
give These Warnings from iMat iMat as it
stands for um and they they will tell
you even localized they'll say well for
example in bronza there's going to be
this much rainfall over the next couple
of hours um I must say we work closely
with jalter for the the olive press and
uh they're very good in jalter with
announcing exactly what time the rain's
going to start and when it's going to
stop and how much they predict it's
going to drop um so you know some places
are better than others I don't know
whether Inland Valencia was quite as
good as Inland and the luia at warning
us about the rain um as you can hear you
probably see in the background it's it's
still raining and uh you know it's not
heavy at the moment but uh hoping it's
not going to get too heavy I'm just
looking at images um on social media as
I'm chatting to you John where vehicles
are just strewn across they've been
moved by the strength of the water
strewn across this highway with with May
it's maybe in I would say three or 4T of
water so I understand your concerns
about those that may have been trapped
in their vehicles what's happening with
the
airports well both Valencia airport and
Malaga airport were shot for a few hours
yesterday at Val the runways at Valencia
were were completely uh I mean it was
flooded at Valencia airport so there
were no planes coming in or out I think
there were 50 or was it 60 planes that
couldn't land at Madrid or Valencia um
we had friends who who were due to get
in the middle of the night I don't even
know if they've got here yet what I will
say about um I don't know if you if
you've caught some of the footage I was
watching um uh a video on social media
this morning of a guy in a truck driving
up the motorway pass Valencia up north
towards cion and in front of him a a
lorri was literally blown over on the
motorway like blown onto its sides and
uh you know this is a lorry driver who's
filming this on his dash cam I think and
uh he stops and there's a car that
that's right next to the Lorry that
somehow misses it and doesn't get
squashed and I think I heard you say
earli you talking to someone saying that
were various lorries had been blown over
now that's not normal is it I mean when
have you heard that's ever happened in
Spain