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Volcano eruption in La Palma: 'It's like nothing ever existed, like we've been erased'

2022-09-30T08:48:19.635Z


SEEN FROM ELSEWHERE - Members of the Diaz family, originally from La Palma, lost their home a few days after the volcano erupted in 2021. They received aid, bought land in another part of Spain. island, but admit not being able to climb the slope, nor...


By Antonio Jiménez Barca & Guillermo Vega

(El País)

It is 3:10 p.m. this Sunday, September 19, 2021 when the volcano erupts.

The Diaz family has exactly the right reaction, because they have been warned: the suitcases containing clothes and the documents of the house are ready, the four dogs tied with chains to avoid wasting time looking for them, the localized cat and the parrot placed in a smaller and easier to transport cage.

The father, mother and son, who was then living with them, load everything into a van and drive off at full speed to the maternal grandparents.

Preparing for the explosive awakening of a volcano 500 meters from your home is one thing, but managing the aftermath is quite another.

Read alsoA year after its eruption, the volcano of La Palma attracts tourists in large numbers

A year later, the house was buried under 15 meters of lava.

Neither the father, Jorge Valentin Diaz, 56, nor the mother, Asuncion Maria Garcia, also 56, have dared to approach it since this Sunday.

Every time she thinks about it, Asunción stares at something…

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Source: lefigaro

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