An Australian English teacher in Spain describes seeing cars and trees 'flying around' as floodwaters tear though Valencia in Spain, leaving scenes similar to a war zone.
A red warning for rain was active, so she took her jacket as a precaution."It felt like a war zone, it felt like a zombie-land, it felt like an apocalypse," Ms Doyle said.At least 205 people have been killed in the flooding, which has been described as Europe's worst natural disaster in five decades.
Spanish authorities expect the number of dead to rise and have set up a temporary morgue in a convention centre in the outskirts of Valencia. "We heard the boom of the doors of the house being ripped off in front of us and the water just flooding in," she said. "We were all sent alerts to our cell phones from the government about 8:10pm telling us not to go outside and we looked outside and thought, 'Well, we can't go outside, so thank you for telling us,'" she said.The next day, once the worst had passed, the group tried to return to their homes using the metro, but it was out of action."We would walk down one street but … it's blocked by piles and piles of cars," she said.
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