00:00The devastation of the deadly floods left behind is still immense.
00:03Overnight the catastrophe of the 29th of October
00:07changed the lives of thousands in the province of Valencia.
00:10Normality seems far away and starting over
00:13is a challenge. This metal workshop in the town of Masanasa
00:18is still barely accessible from the outside. Together with volunteers
00:22Joaquin Raga has gotten rid of most of the mud that covered everything.
00:27Approximately two and a half meters.
00:30All of his tools and machines are now useless,
00:33destroyed by sand and rust. He estimates the damage at 60,000 euros
00:38and has now gotten 10,000 euros of financial aid
00:41from the national government. But he won't be able to open for another month
00:46or two.
00:46He's afraid he'll lose his customers.
00:52We get called a lot for repairs, but right now I cannot fix anything.
00:56We are repairing our own things. How are we going to repair for others?
01:00It's impossible right now. Let's see if they can wait a bit.
01:03That would be good. If not, it can't happen.
01:06Things look slightly different a few minutes drive away
01:11in SedabĂ. Thanks to a donation from a Spanish supermarket manager
01:16this butcher just reopened. A relief after long weeks
01:21in crisis mode.
01:25It means a lot to me, seeing people come back in and people not crying
01:29because when the shop was closed they came to hug us and cry.
01:32It was all crying. And now we have a bond with people
01:36that we didn't have before.
01:39Only very few shops are already open though.
01:43Many people still rely on donations,
01:46like here at this church where they get the essentials that they cannot find
01:50locally.
01:51The road to recovery is tough, and for some, unimaginable.
01:55Many here think that most of the deaths could have been avoided
01:59had the regional government alerted people on time.
02:03Mery GarcĂa's father died in the flood.
02:06It took more than 10 days to find his body.
02:09Volunteers dug him out of the mud, and she feels left alone to deal with the trauma.
02:14We are all taking pills.
02:19We are all taking pills to be able to sleep,
02:22because the nightmares are recurring every day. I can't stop to think about
02:26how my father suffered.
02:28He was clinging to a fence without anyone rescuing him.
02:32Life for her and her family will never be the same again.
02:40Mery GarcĂa has sent a petition to Spain's Congress
02:44demanding justice for the dead. Tens of thousands have signed.
02:49Back at the butcher shop, where volunteers from all parts of the country
02:54cleaned and rebuilt the shop again,
02:55giving people back something as normal as grocery shopping.
02:59It seems like nothing has happened
03:02when everything has happened. I'm happy because we were practically abandoned.
03:06We had nowhere to go to buy anything, nothing, not even a simple loaf of bread.
03:11After the horrors people in the region had to endure,
03:17it's the little things that seem like miracles. And they know whom to thank.
03:21There's a saying making the rounds here. Only the people
03:25save the people.
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