'It happened two weeks ago, but it feels like two days,' says Sandro Tothill, co-founder, along with his wife Marivi Calvo, of the art-lamp company LZF. He is referring to the landscape of topped cars, shattered walls, and orange groves strewn with debris that he sees on his drive to work. 'The clean-ups have started in the villages, but not the countryside yet, so we have these constant reminders.' LZF operates from Chiva, one of the ground-zero townships of the catastrophic floods that swamped the region of Valencia on October 29. That day, his habitual 15-minute drive home took several hours as his car became trapped in a convergence of overflowing riverways. 'It felt like we had been hit by a tsunami,' he recalls.
