
This is not about death, although there have been enough in Paiporta and surrounding towns; it’s about cleaning up the mud.
Well that was a wet weekend, from the north of the province to the south. Take Campotéjar on the Jaén border where the river burst its banks, for example.
Four women at a residency for the elderly in Cataluña died as a result of the home being hit by a flood when the nearby river burst its banks at four in the morning.
Friday had seen by midday 50 litres per square metre – hardly surprising as it belted down between 04.30h and 07.30h and hasn’t stopped raining since then.