They came by bus, by tractor or on foot. They waded through mud hoping to help clean up neighborhoods washed away by floodwaters that have killed at least 214 people. Thousands of Spanish citizens made their way to flood-ravaged Valencia over the weekend after the country’s worst natural disaster in recent history left the nation shocked by images of overturned cars and brick homes torn apart by furious water.

King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain were met with an angry crowd as they arrived in an area recently devastated by flash floods. The king and queen visited the eastern city of Valencia, where residents say they were "abandoned" after being ordered to stay home after flood waters became dangerous on October 29.

Spain's worst floods in decades have left whole neighborhoods covered in mud and strewn with mangled cars and debris. More than 200 people have died and many more are missing.