Spain exports fruits, vegetables and other crops to the U.K. and EU, and shoppers will likely see the flood's effects in their grocery prices.

The number only corresponds to the eastern Valencia region, where 211 of the 217 confirmed deaths took place when entire communities were swamped by tsunami-like floods on Oct. 29

One week after catastrophic flooding devasted eastern Spain, María Murgui still holds out hope that her father is alive and among the unknown number of the missing. "He was like many people in town who went out to get their car or motorbike to safety,