[News] Floods in Spain

[Si Gull]

Apologies if this is covered elsewhere but the situation with the floods in Spain is horrendous. Parts of Valencia had over a year's worth of rain in 8hrs, unbelievable.

Really feel for anyone caught up in this.

BBC News - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ckmgmdxg254t
At least 95 killed in Spanish flash floods as king warns of areas cut off by damage - BBC News

 

[mothy]

My sister lives an hour from valencia. She sent me a video of torrential flooding. When I visit there are huge gulleys & dry river beds that you wonder what they are for. Every year she sends me a video of them in torrents for a few days.

 

[Boroseagull]

Had our fair share too (just outside Malaga). Extensive flooding, the most I've seen in the area. A fellow Brit in our town sadly died in hospital after being rescued from his house. But nothing is as bad as Valencia and the suffering those poor souls are enduring.

I hope all my other Seagulls in Spain are safe.

 

[FCB]

Valencia is totally destroyed.






We had bad floods in my country last year (this looks far worse though) so I can imagine what these poor people are going through.

 

[Boroseagull]

My friends son lives in Valencia, he & his wife are safe as he built a dam up around his place last year as he felt it was vulnerable to flooding. However he sent this photo of the cercania (suburban) train line from the city that runs at close to his home.

 

[Official Old Man]

The floods there are awfull, but I don't understand why British news stations aren't covering this as much as they would if it was in the USA?
My old home of Mallorca due bad floods in the next day or so. Wishing them well.

 

[US Seagull]

NBC's Today show's coverage is shocking:

 

[jamie (not that one)]

Valencia city itself is totally untouched and you'd never know anything had happened. South of the city where the river burst its banks is a disaster though. A friend of mine there (now sleeping in my spare room) had his car in an underground carpark which was full of water, another doesn't even know where her car is, and they're all without power and running water since it happened.

The animal shelters are begging people to foster dogs and cats for a couple of weeks while they rebuild, both Levante and Valencia football clubs are running drives for donations of clothes, food money etc etc and the emergency services are pleading with people to stay off the roads so they get get in and out easier with casualties, machinery and so forth.

Unfortunately the areas to the south which are worse affected are mainly working class areas and you'll see in the photos a lot of vans. Those poor bastards have a long road ahead to get back on their feet. I feel there's going to be a lot of questions asked about this, and they'll have to put a solid plan in place to stop it happening to this extent again.

 

[Weststander]

Valencia city itself is totally untouched and you'd never know anything had happened. South of the city where the river burst its banks is a disaster though. A friend of mine there (now sleeping in my spare room) had his car in an underground carpark which was full of water, another doesn't even know where her car is, and they're all without power and running water since it happened.

The animal shelters are begging people to foster dogs and cats for a couple of weeks while they rebuild, both Levante and Valencia football clubs are running drives for donations of clothes, food money etc etc and the emergency services are pleading with people to stay off the roads so they get get in and out easier with casualties, machinery and so forth.

Unfortunately the areas to the south which are worse affected are mainly working class areas and you'll see in the photos a lot of vans. Those poor bastards have a long road ahead to get back on their feet. I feel there's going to be a lot of questions asked about this, and they'll have to put a solid plan in place to stop it happening to this extent again.

Luckily Valencia built that huge channel and redirected the entire river, after devastating floods (60 years ago?).

 

[Boroseagull]

RTE reporting death toll stands at 155 and many more unaccounted for.

 

[Zeberdi]

Barcelona under red flood alerts with torrential rain - already streets are flooding and main airport shut down

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[cirC]

Luckily Valencia built that huge channel and redirected the entire river, after devastating floods (60 years ago?).

1957 to be exact. Much the same has happened over the centuries periodically. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957_Valencia_flood

Seems that after the 1957 floods the river course was changed but torrential rainfall still managed to overcome that.
Such a shame that so many have perished but I guess population growth makes that more likely.

 

[FCB]