The DANA catastrophe occupies all the televisions in our country. The worst natural disaster in Spain so far this century has already reached the figure of 214 deaths while thousands of people work in the devastated areas under warnings of heavy rain. Nuria Roca, Valencian by birth, lives disconsolately the tragedy that devastates her province from a distance and this weekend he wanted to give a voice to the residents of the most affected areas in his La Roca program.
The presenter He connected live with his sister-in-law Patricia Llorens, his brother’s partner and a resident of one of the Valencian towns most affected by the storm, who wanted to contribute her testimony as a volunteer in the cleaning work. When Nuria Roca saw her, she couldn’t help but get excited and hIt had to be her husband, Juan del Val, who spoke in the program to see his wife so moved. “Nuria has been a little emotional because we have a family bond with her. She is our sister-in-law and all of Nuria’s family yesterday, her brothers, were volunteers and were able to feel the disorganization to manage the human flow to help but in the end it was not possible because different circumstances,” he explained.
Once Nuria Roca managed to calm down, the presenter said, visibly affected: “I asked that my brothers not come in because I was going to get emotional, but it has also happened to me with you“Nuria Roca’s brothers were collaborating like her sister-in-law in the most affected areas as volunteers, but chaos took over the area and many of these people did not They were able to get there with buses because the mud prevented it. “It was a waste of money,” said his sister-in-law Patricia, who still can’t believe how no one inspected the area before sending thousands of volunteers to help. She and Roca’s brothers could not enter the town of Ribarroja. “There was no access“, he reveals. “They mobilized 15 buses – with 12,000 volunteers – and they did not arrive.”
Nuria Roca wanted to personally thank the Piccasent school, where the presenter’s nephews attend, for deciding to send the children home after receiving the alert from the Picassent City Council. “It was the City Council on a personal basis,” said his sister-in-law, to whom the alarm did not reach until 8 p.m., when everything had already happened. “Total impudence,” she concluded her speech and Nuria Roca could not help but get emotional again.
The presenter of La Roca is extremely shocked by the catastrophe that DANA has caused in her homeland, Valencia. Nuria, born in Moncada, already expressed her deep sadness in The Anthillwhere he shared how he is living the difficult hours after the catastrophe that has hit his homeland. With tears in his eyes he expressed the pain and helplessness he feels due to the devastation that the floods have left in their wake. “He’s crying all the time; It’s something you can’t get over“, he recounted Juan dVal visibly affected. “It is also true that it has to do with proximity, she is from there and her family is there,” he explained. Her parents and siblings live in the Valencian Community, and although they are physically well, the presenter cannot help but put herself in the shoes of those people who have lost everything.