25 October. The Valencian Meteorology Society has announced that next week a cold drop from high temperatures could cause torrential rains in Valencia. Day by day, the forecasts are confirmed, and on 29 October, in the early morning hours, the State Meteorology Agency has activated the red alert. Hours later, this alert joins the alert for the risk of growth of the flows of the Magre and Poio rivers. In a parallel world, the president of the Valencian Generalitat, Carlos Mazón (pp), makes a press conference that ensures that around 6 pm the rain will calm and the risk will pass. It was at that time that the tragedy began.

At 6 p.m., the waters of the Magre River emerged from the Algemesí containment wall and extended throughout the Bank. At six and a half o'clock, the Poio River flowed into the streets of Torrent, and then flooded dozens of large urban centres of l'Horta sur. At that time, everyone made their normal life. Children in after-school activities, workers in industrial estates, open shops, crowded shopping malls. When it was verbally reported that the bridges over the river were shattering a wall of water, logs and all kinds of waste, hundreds or thousands of people tried to save the parked vehicles both in the parking lot and on the street. Right at that time of greatest movement was the disaster. Tens of thousands of people got a message from the emergency room when they were stuck in cars and trucks or grabbed in extremis to a tree that recommended they didn't leave their homes. It was late. The result is well known. Hundreds of dead and missing. Since the tragic events of 25 September 1962 in the Catalan region of Vallès, which has been the most affected.

If the lack of attention to citizenship was not enough, the government of pp found that it could do even worse. In addition, both President Mazón and Councillor Núria Montes have maintained an arrogant attitude. Families who have lived in the interior with bodies, without water or food, cut roads and railways. The response was imminent and thousands of people left the capital on foot, crossing what is already known as a bridge of solidarity, to the southern channel of the Turia River, where the most affected municipalities are located. Paddles, cubes, gloves, waste bags, water bottles and basic baby food were on the vehicle. Macón's response was a contempt and a threat of them returning home.

In fact, the image of people with a broom in their hand showed that public administrations had failed in managing the disaster. Politically, it is not in the interest of ratifying that "only the people can save the people", as Berri Txarrak's song says. Mazón is annoyed by the volunteers because they perfectly represent the government’s ineffectiveness and lack of foresight. Its government has repeatedly minimized or denied global warming, which places the torrential rains of the Mediterranean in the context of the global climate emergency.

But what he has lived on the streets of Valencia, despite the suffering he has left, has no turning back. The human chains that have cleaned up the street mud are part of the new paradigm of social bonding and confirm that it is time to make important decisions about the world that we want to leave our sons and daughters.