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Rescue workers in Spain continue to search for bodies in the wake of flooding that killed at least 158 people in the eastern Valencia region. The coastal area of Murcia was also badly hit.
Satellite images of Valencia before and after the floods show the extent of the damage. It’s the worst flooding to hit Spain in more than three decades – with a year’s worth of rain falling in just a day.
Many of those affected are angry about what they say is an inadequate crisis response by authorities. Our correspondent reports from one of the worst-affected communities.
00:00 Hundreds of soldiers aid rescue efforts
00:14 The scale of destruction
00:45 Flood survivors say the warnings came far too late
02:52 DW Correspondent Jan-Philipp Scholz in Valencia, Spain
04:07 Flood alert system under scrutiny
06:39 What triggered the flash floods?
06:50 Jeff Da Costa, Climate Scientist
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Invest in water magnement ..An build a warning system.
I was looking at a place near Valencia a couple of years ago. I wonder what towns have been affected.
Honestly, this shows the flaws of the Spanish government. They’re to focused on fighting each other in parliament, that they forget what actually needs to be done for the people.
Jesus is coming. This world is not going to get better.
Free Palestine
…WELCOME TO EARTH.
Europe invested billions euros to fund war in Ukraine… i can bet they will do absolutely nothing to restore Spain… how can you talk about climate change when you keep funding wars ….
Much love to Valencia from Brazil.
I hope God helps us all.
Here where I live in the south of Brazil, something alike took place…
We know that this pain hurts a lot…
We will remember forever…
The long term effect of Micro Bacteria released by the Sewer, Septic Tanks, Storm drains including Raw Sewage Treatment Plants will be felt for years. The residents don't know it yet but standing in be exposed skin to feces over a period of days if not weeks will absorb into the skin. This is Pathogen 1. The 2nd Pathogen will be when, eventually the mud, etc. dries it will become Airborne as like a Pollen or ultra fine dust, into their lungs into the blood stream. This entire area becomes a BIO-HAZARD for anyone exposed. Get young children out of the area.
Spanish here. These are the main points:
1) The flooding areas are well known by cartographers and technicians for decades and have a well-recorded history of deadly floodings. Building permits are still issued to this day for this and many other areas that are not suitable and dangerous for recaudatory reasons. The weather phenomena that caused this is also well-known and a regular event this time of the year.
2) The local government is ruled by the conservative party, central government is ruled by the socialist party. Both are playing political games whilst people are dying. Bureaucracy in Spain dictates an official request is necessary for central government to take control of an emergency but it can also take control unilateraly if it's grave enough. One part is being prideful and the other is letting people drown for political gain. Both are to blame. Spain isn't lacking in manpower, technical services or know-how. In fact we just have too many intermediaries, pencil-pushers, form-stampers and politicians in general getting in the way of true citizens.
3) Metereological services sounded the alarms several days in advance, and then again hours before the disaster. But the bureaucracy was incapable or unbothered as always.
4) Humans are simple creatures, the areas with more deaths didn't see much rain at all before they got flooded as the big rain events happened further upstream. They just went on with their days without heeding metereological services since those are sometimes wrong and it wasn't raining right there. Redundancy and urgency in getting the information the weather scientists had to the general populace failed miserably.
The people of Spain are too easy going on their Government. Imagine if this was France?
1:53 1 bottle per person is nice if you have a big family
The fresh start. Like so many people, today Spaniards are faced with destruction. It can come from natural disasters, or from human conflicts. But looking at the people in the Valencia region, we can believe in reconstruction. They came together, they are removing the rubble, collecting the bodies, cleaning up and determined to make the place more beautiful again.
Listen to the Spanish weather scientist Nauzet Morgade. What he has to say is very important!
Its not dozens missing its 1900 confirmed, plus all the ones we havent heard of yet.
Looks like Porto Alegre Brazil, earlier this year they had the same situation
Horrible
We still waiting for help BLABLA
Check here the irreal footage of a natural disaster.
Flash flooding from storms inundated villages and piled vehicles into narrow streets in Spain's Valencia region, killing dozens of people, mud-filled roads damaged towns, and people being rescued from flooded homes.
How could something like this happen?
Love and thoughts and condolences to Spain from Italy. I hope my country will help someway
The only way to fix climate change is my voting for Kamala Harris in 2024.
Shame on that guy riding a small pony . He could have walked faster than that poor animal 🦓 . 2:42
Sono sicuro che si rialzeranno!
Coraggio hermanos!
💪🏻🇪🇸🇪🇸🇮🇹🇮🇹
Strength to all who have been affected
Be honest no one to blame if you have a years worth of rain in 1 day
Putin is too good at this.
Please oh Spain turn away from Wickedness and Turn to Jesus Christ
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Europe always ready to help, but it never does. They only help Germany and that's it.
The news is giving the numbers wrong… It goes up to more than 2000 missing people and up to 250 d3aths…
mas de 400 litros por metro cuadrado en menos de 3 horas no hay ciudad que lo pueda soportar sin daños
This flooding in Spain is utterly devastating. People have struggled to one day buy a house & yet a storm can come by & completely destroys it. Our current society is completely failing at dealing with these problems. So why should the people not lose hope, since our system is completely broken & failing to deal with these major issues? How can our system not see how important it is to invest in it's own people? Our system puts profit above all else & they chase ever increasing growth no matter how unrealistic & toxic that is.. Our system refuses to Change or Adapt. Our society is in complete denial…