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Jon Clarke talks with Sky News on the recent floods in Spain
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Nov 13, 2024
Jon Clarke talks with Sky News on the recent floods in Spain
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John um Clark is with us uh again he's
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the editor of the olive press uh he's in
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uh one of the areas that has been
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hardest hit down towards Malaga Valencia
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seems to be struggling significantly
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John we're hearing four in four hours 13
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inches of rain
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fell yeah it's amazing K uh I was just
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listening to you there and and your
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commentators also got a geography degree
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like me and uh so I'm sort of fascinated
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by the meteorology conditions and how it
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happens and and you know as I was
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explaining earlier the Darna conditions
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where they call it a g fre or cold drop
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where you get this kind of cold air from
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the north that drops into that very
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moist warm air that's coming in from the
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south and of course doesn't help the
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Atlantic's been so warm and this
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suddenly it creates this enormous storms
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and we saw last night tornado in certain
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parts of uh of Valencia I saw an
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incredible kind of tornado literally
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ripped someone's Terrace up uh watching
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on the news around the Valencia area
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where everything including the table on
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their Terrace was just thrown in the air
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and uh you know just incredibly strong
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storms which which bring and I think I
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was explaining earlier that some people
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have had half a Year's rainfall in just
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a matter of hours um so you can just
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imagine when it's been so dry for two
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years we've had very serious drought
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conditions um firstly from El Nino and
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then from lanin which was last year the
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second year that that had that meant
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that the ground's so so hard and so dry
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and the reservoirs are empty that when
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the rain hits heavily it just it just it
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just works as runoff and it goes
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straight down into rivers and and you
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know into you Rivers flood quickly and
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towns as you've seen in Inland Valencia
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there's been a number of towns utl and
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Renna um and turis and and quite a
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number of these towns just just can't
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survive you know with that much water
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coming through and and a lot of these
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places have these houses towns have been
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there for hundreds and hundreds of years
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um and you've seen kind of almost
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medieval bridges that being Swept Away
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in storms when you know big tree trumps
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are hitting them and you know I don't
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okay I mean what's happening is it's
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it's just I think it's excavated by
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global warming um it's quite terrifying
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really what what warning was the given
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John well we we knew that we were going
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to get um heavy we knew we knew we were
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going to get very heavy rainfall we knew
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that dar conditions were here and we
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expected a lot of rain but we didn't
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expect quite this much um so you know
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most people I would say yesterday in in
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Amaya Inland Malaga mostly stayed at
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home didn't go out on the roads I I
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ventured out to have a look around and
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there were quite a few places where
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police had cut off roads because there
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had been serious flooding and a couple
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of rivers near us in Ronda had had burst
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their Banks now we had some guests
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coming to stay with us some friends
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friends were coming to stay with us they
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were coming from El churo which is where
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the famous C Del re was and they were
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stuck in the village and all three roads
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out of el churo were blocked and the
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police just said sorry you're going to
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have to stay here so they had to stay
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there for five hours uh in the town
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couldn't move and while they they
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somehow managed to kind of unblock the
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roads and so they could get out and and
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you know this is and this is in L Malaga
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and it's nothing compared to Valencia I
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think I was explaining to you earlier
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how I was watching the news last night
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and there were something like aund cars
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stuck on the motorway on the A3 Motorway
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that goes down from albet into Valencia
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and they were told you're going to have
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to sit and wait here you can't go either
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back or forwards and they were sitting
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there for hours and hours and the pitch
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black it got to some 9:31 at night and
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they they still there um and I I really
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hope that they aren't some of these 51
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people who've lost their lives that the
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Emergency Services didn't manage to get
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them out of their cars and to somewhere
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safe but uh I do fear the worst I fear
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that perhaps the Emergency Services were
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were on the hot Pier they weren't there
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quick enough um you know it's quite
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clear that that now the the emergency
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the fire emergency from the Army at um
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as they're called are now on the ground
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they've got helicopters up so I hope
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that no there's be no more serious uh
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threat to life today but I fear the
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worst yeah we um obviously have a lot of
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people uh watching us from that area
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what advice are people what advice
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should they
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take well obviously going on your roof
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if uh if it's getting bad I think I I I
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can't see it getting above uh two floors
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um so you know stay put and um you know
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just keep very close eye on the IM met
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uh weather station because they issue
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warnings in fact that's now tied in most
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to most people's phones now they can see
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when there's emergency warnings and they
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give These Warnings from iMat iMat as it
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stands for um and they they will tell
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you even localized they'll say well for
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example in bronza there's going to be
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this much rainfall over the next couple
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of hours um I must say we work closely
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with jalter for the the olive press and
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uh they're very good in jalter with
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announcing exactly what time the rain's
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going to start and when it's going to
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stop and how much they predict it's
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going to drop um so you know some places
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are better than others I don't know
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whether Inland Valencia was quite as
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good as Inland and the luia at warning
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us about the rain um as you can hear you
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probably see in the background it's it's
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still raining and uh you know it's not
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heavy at the moment but uh hoping it's
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not going to get too heavy I'm just
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looking at images um on social media as
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I'm chatting to you John where vehicles
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are just strewn across they've been
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moved by the strength of the water
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strewn across this highway with with May
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it's maybe in I would say three or 4T of
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water so I understand your concerns
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about those that may have been trapped
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in their vehicles what's happening with
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the
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airports well both Valencia airport and
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Malaga airport were shot for a few hours
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yesterday at Val the runways at Valencia
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were were completely uh I mean it was
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flooded at Valencia airport so there
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were no planes coming in or out I think
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there were 50 or was it 60 planes that
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couldn't land at Madrid or Valencia um
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we had friends who who were due to get
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in the middle of the night I don't even
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know if they've got here yet what I will
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say about um I don't know if you if
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you've caught some of the footage I was
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watching um uh a video on social media
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this morning of a guy in a truck driving
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up the motorway pass Valencia up north
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towards cion and in front of him a a
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lorri was literally blown over on the
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motorway like blown onto its sides and
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uh you know this is a lorry driver who's
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filming this on his dash cam I think and
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uh he stops and there's a car that
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that's right next to the Lorry that
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somehow misses it and doesn't get
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squashed and I think I heard you say
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earli you talking to someone saying that
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were various lorries had been blown over
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now that's not normal is it I mean when
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have you heard that's ever happened in
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Spain
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