A GREENOCK teacher living in Valencia says she is “hearing sirens all day” after flash flooding hit Southern Spain with an estimated 155 people dead.

Lucy Begley, who works as a teacher in an English-speaking primary school in the city, told STV News it has been a “sad experience” since the floods began.

At least 155 people are reported to have died, and others are missing after floods swept through large areas of eastern and southern Spain, authorities have said.

On Tuesday, the 29-year-old was sent home from work due to the bad weather, with villages and towns around the city centre the worst affected by flash flooding.

She told STV News: “There was no evacuation plan, but all day all I’ve heard is sirens.

“The people of Valencia are really angry with the government because, apparently, this had all been predicted around 15 hours before.

“By the time we got a message to our phones telling us to get inside and be safe, people were already trapped and stranded.”

She added: “It wouldn’t be possible to get to Madrid at the moment, in the city centre all the metros aren’t working.

“The main roads in and out of the city are all blocked. If you go north, you can leave, but I think it would be very difficult.

“I haven’t had any plan to evacuate.

“My family and friends have been reaching out, and they’re really worried because there have been fake media reports about where has been hit.

“I have a friend who went missing. She was able to contact her family through someone else’s phone the next day.

“Another friend is still stuck in her town (outside city) without any water. The road into the city has been destroyed.

“Three of my friends were stranded overnight in their cars. It’s been a very sad experience.”

One person from Glasgow affected by the flooding, who is on holiday in Arboleas with her family, described the storm as “scary”.

She said: “It was colder here on Monday than it was in Glasgow.

“It was a dried-up river that had flooded. It filled very quickly with fast-flowing water and was quite scary.

“There was a policeman at each side of the bridge across the river to make sure no one attempted to cross. We have had no water here for two days.

“Galassa or the Ayuntimiento arranged for a water tanker to sit on our main street in the village where we could collect fresh water. It’s an inconvenience, but we’re not complaining.

“The rain started around 4pm on Monday, and thunderstorms followed soon after, lasting all through the night.

“The lightning was tremendous and lit up the sky. It would have been amazing to watch, but we had our shutters and blinds closed so our dog wouldn’t be disturbed too much.

“It was a terrible storm, but we survived. We are very fortunate compared with Valencia, where the loss of life has been tremendous.”

Spain’s worst natural disaster this century left a trail of destruction and fears that more horrors will be uncovered from the layers of mud that walls of water left in their wake.

An unknown number of people remain missing.