Valencia red weather warning: I have evacuated. Did I overreact?

[Laralou991]

This afternoon my phone buzzed very loudly with a red weather warning alert from the government (attached). All schools and public services are closed for the next 2 days. My husband is away with work and I have a 2 and 4 year old. We moved here a month ago and do not have a lot of supplies in, and as it’s Sunday just the small local shop is open. We also don’t know anybody locally so have no immediate support system.

Have I overreacted to have left Valencia and travelled to a relatives in another part of Spain? I’d rather be at home, but went into a panic and was madly packing our suitcases to get out the area. It felt a bit like an Apolcolypse. During the last floods apparently the shops ran out of water and I was worried we could end up trapped with road closures etc.

Have I massively overreacted here?

We were here last year and, although we were safe, we lost power for 3 days which was an absolute ball ache with young kids, so I'm just adding to the voices saying you did the right thing!

Yes, we stayed put. We're in a built up area, not near to where the worst affected areas were last year. Quite a big storm last night - quite a lot of lightening, but it's barely rained all day. Just started about 25 mins ago and thunder. The wind is picking up, too.

It felt a bit silly keeping the kids at home today, but better safe than sorry. They've closed businesses all over the place, too. So you just acted in line with them - getting / staying somewhere safe!

Great that things have passed and everything is fine. When you say "everyone was chill", "everyone" was not alone with 2 children, right? Everything is scarier when we are the only adult taking care of very young children. I (a stranger in the Internet) think you did the right thing