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Olive Press' Jon Clarke in an interview with the BBC on the situation with flooding in Spain
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Nov 13, 2024
Olive Press' Jon Clarke in an interview with the BBC on the situation with flooding in Spain
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now a journalist covering this from
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Malaga provin John Clark is the editor
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of the olive Press newspaper thank you
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for coming on the
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program yeah good afternoon yeah I'm
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here at the emergency center the ner
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Center in anthon I've just been uh up to
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Al which was the worst affected area
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here in an where I saw an amazing number
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of cars that been swept away I think
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there were 30 or 35 of them Swept Away
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there absolute miracle that nobody has
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so far been killed in Andel I mean the
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rainfall was Absol staggering and
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although we haven't had the same figures
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as for L year I think
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400 per met squ we had well over a
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hundred in in a in a day in just a few
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hours and uh you know we loads of rock
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roads were cut off around Rond where I
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live and down to my bay I had my office
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staff couldn't get into work been
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countless roads I think 200 kilometers
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of rural roads have been cut off and uh
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yeah it's been it's been quite
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shocking what we're just seeing some
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images that you you gave to us here of
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cars in all sorts of uh trouble what
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about the people where you are what are
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people being told to
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do well actually um what's happened just
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now is in the last half an hour it just
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caused called a red alert for cadis as
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well as jutah now cadis the next
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Province along from Malaga and people
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are just been told to be very careful to
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stay at home do not go out as there's
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been so much rain it's so saturated that
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any rain that falls now I feel like it's
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about to Second here uh when the rain
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does finally come down it's going to go
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straight into rivers and those Rivers
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apparently in all alone the rivers
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flooded the qu hor River rows by seven
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meters and uh various people I spoke to
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in ALA Village today said that their
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houses had a meter and a half of rain in
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s so they were really
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scared just extraordinary uh scale
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intensity of all this what are people
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expecting over the next couple of
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days well there's definitely yellow
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orange and red alerts around Andel for
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the next 24 hours we haven't had any
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rain at all for pretty much two years
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we've been living in drought conditions
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and we've had a lot of trees died walnut
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trees di Chestnut trees have died from
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the drought and so in lots of ways it's
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fantastic to have this much rain the
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reservoirs at one point were one of the
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reservoirs was 8% full and so real D of
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they called this the one 8% a dead
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Reservoir and we were in real danger of
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running out of water here in the summer
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in the cost our souls so I think this is
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a conent in some ways obviously it's
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horrific what happened in Valencia and I
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think as Sky just reported 68 confirmed
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there may be over 70 now and there's
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certainly dozens more missing and I
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think in P Porte which is one of the
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worst effed where 36 people have died
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apparently even a couple of police guard
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thille who were in their Barrack I think
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two their girlfriends died possibly a
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third died going down into the basement
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to try and rescue someone while I think
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five people died in an old people's home
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there which is terrific isn't it because
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they obviously can't get out so you know
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I think we're expecting I would expect
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this to be the largest natural disaster
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uh at least for the last 50 years not
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100 years here in Spain and John what
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about the warning give us a sense of
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what kind of warnings came ahead of all
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this okay so I mean the point now is
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that we had a couple of tragedies in the
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last few years in newor where we have a
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newspaper we reported on 13 dying in
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2018 and that was from ad or what they
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call a cold drop of goia and we also had
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three years ago in south of Valencia in
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in Thea B we had I think 10 people di
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down there so they're getting used to
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this now and this extreme weather's
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getting worse and worse with global
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warming and course you know I'm sure
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you've explained it to your to your
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listeners and and viewers that this is
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when warm air comes up from the south
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and it makes the kind of cold air that
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drops in from Central Europe and and it
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causes incredible you know unstable
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weather front and and you may have seen
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some of the uh credible tormentors I
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mean almost like tornadoes that that
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were seen last night and I think it was
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at 7 o'clock last night in Valencia when
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people were coming home from work in
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Russia when most people were caught in
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their cars and then most people died and
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I think you know this is something that
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we're getting used to now it's getting
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worse and worse and we're just getting
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used to the fact that we're having nine
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months of effectively heat so not quite
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nine months but you know eight months of
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heat and then kind of four months of
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what could be really dangerous storms
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and
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Rainn Clark thank you so much for coming
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on the program and talking us through
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that thank
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you I going head to the Middle East now
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is
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