The havoc caused by the DANA in Valencia they have once again taken over the current affairs gathering of The Anthill this week. The program Pablo Motos and his collaborators have focused on this occasion on the weather warnings issued by organizations such as the Aemet. “Is there anything to improve in the alerts, are we doing them wrong?” the presenter asked his team.
The journalist Cristina Pardo She was the first to speak. “I think that It has been a learning and it will be for everyone. We have seen in recent hours that politicians have learned their lesson and there has been coordination between administrations, preventive alertsrepeated, to the population to give them instructions about what was going to happen, what they had to do… I think that is good news for everyone,” he said when referring to the management after the passage of the last DANA that has mainly affected Malaga.
Pardo has also expressed the opinion that the DANA of Valencia “will mean a learning for citizens. Before Valencia, they called you ‘red alert’, and maybe we didn’t take it as seriously as we should. Unfortunately, if from what has happened we could draw some conclusions that in the future contribute to saving lives and that we take seriously that alerts entail dangers… I think we have to give very clear instructions to the population and the citizens will be up to the task, for sure,” he indicated.
The next to speak has been Nuria Rocawhich in addition to highlighting that a tragedy like the one that occurred in Valencia will serve as a lesson for politicians, has also launched a criticism of the functioning of the warning systems: “You have to be very accurateThat is, I have the feeling that if you don’t change how the alarms are given or the color of the alarms, and you get it right… When it happens two or three times like today, a maximum red alert is given and It doesn’t rain, because in the end… Of course, people will stop paying attentionwhich is what always happens to all of us,” justified the collaborator and presenter of The Rock.
It was at this point that Cristina Pardo has interrupted to his colleague to clarify the change that may occur in the notices. “In these last few hours, there has been a town in Cádiz that had a yellow alert, it was the only one, because the rest were on orange alert. At 9 in the morning everyone has led a normal life, and at 12 the alert has changed for the worse . I mean, meteorology is a changing thing“, he clarified.
In this sense, Pardo has assessed that “it is better safe than sorry. Then, over time, we will all be able to learn and establish severity within the alerts themselves,” said the presenter of Better late.
Juan del Val, for his part, has agreed with Pardo that “it is better to sin by excess“. “Evidently, it has not rained as much these days as it did in Valencia two weeks ago, but maybe we are not experiencing fatalities in some of the towns because people have done what they had to do. Not only the politicians, but also the citizens, who have stayed at home,” he commented, before pointing out that, as Nuria Roca pointed out, “we have to sharpen the shot” with the warnings.
“Let us keep in mind that in some of the areas that were affected by the flood it didn’t rain. That is why it is better to prevent and ask people to stay at home, even if it may not rain,” Cristina Pardo finally concluded.