If we hadn't already been here last year, it would be difficult to believe that above this handful of debris a three-generation-old house was once standing.

We came back to Torrent, just outside Valencia, to meet again with sisters Amparo and Isabel, who survived the Spanish floods on 29 October 2024 .

During that terrible night, their family home was swept away by the water in a matter of seconds. It's the first time they have been back since then.

"We were born in this place and always stayed here," Amparo says.

"Our whole life was here. I remember my books were there," Isabel adds, pointing to a smashed tile on the ground.

Image: Sisters Amparo and Isabel (pictured in the video above) lost their family home in the Valencia floods

Amparo recalls through tears the family gathe

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