Locals walk through the flooded streets in Valencia, Spain[/caption]
Neighbours look at numerous cars piled up after being swept away by the deadly floods[/caption]
The surging water swept her off her feet as she desperately tried to hold on to anything in her path.
The woman, who has not been identified, could be seen screaming and trying to swim as helpless onlookers made desperate attempts to grab her hand from nearby balconies.
At one moment she successfully held onto a lamppost but the torrent quickly ripped her away sending her further down the street.
Some 115 people were rescued from the care home in Paiporta, a town in Valencia that was hit particularly hard by the floods.
Tragically five were killed and one reported missing from the ruined building on Wednesday.
Mayor of the town, Maribel Albalat, said: “The currents were so quick – and we called the emergency services who started rescuing some people who had water up to their neck.”
Describing it as “a total catastrophe”, she added that the death toll is expected to rise: “The victims are going to be in their dozens.
“There were a lot of people in their homes which in Paiporta are single-storey and water has entered them and they haven’t been able to get out.”
Spain was hit with heavy rainfall and storms on Tuesday[/caption]
At least 72 people have so far been killed in the deadly floods[/caption]
She described “a lot of people who went to move their cars and never came back”.
Spain was hit by flash floods after the east of the country was hit by a meteorological phenomenon known as a ‘DANA’.
A DANA, or a ‘cold drop’ is technically a system where there is an isolated depression in the atmosphere at high levels.
In layman’s terms, more warm and moist Mediterranean air than usual was sucked high into the atmosphere after a cold system hit the country from the south.
The easterly wind then pushed all those clouds and rain into eastern Spain.
Three to four months of rain fell in some places over the space of 24 hours.
The DANA system hit southern Spain as it arrived from Morocco yesterday and is now expected to head west over southern Portugal.