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Spanish news update and PM Sánchez has addressed the COP29 summit and said that the Valencia floods were not an isolated incident and are a warning for the world.
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So what about the floods in Valencia 15 October 1858, if the population of Valencia was as large as it is now the death toll would have been as bad!!!
Does Spain have anything resembling a drainage system?
I've noticed that lots of houses don't even have gutters?
(Serious question, not baiting).
Catalunya tested the alert system las year with a test message and issued an alert emergency SMS on November the 4th 2024 at 11:15am when AEMET issued the red alert for the region. How could the Generalitat Valenciana not know about this system or previously tested it?
Hello from Torrent, Valencia. We have had a naranja, level 2 alert since this afternoon for more flooding
How much fossil fluid was utilized during the Ice Age to produce all the global warming since? Maybe nature has something to do with this!
Hi Stuart, From a bright but cold Toronto.
Definitely agree urban planning is most likely culpable.
We were in Barcelona, Valencia and Peniscola couple days after the tragedy. Watched the local news regarding all the anger and grief. Talking to locals and it seems that nobody was prepared for any type of disaster. I live in California, we are advised to be prepared for earthquake, wild fires and flooding disasters. Unfortunately these types of disasters show us that we are not fully prepared. I hope this tragedy gets the conversation going on getting prepared for disasters, changes the way the military is deploys their troops to assist. I think one number was said only 500 troops were deployed and the rest were citizens working to help those affected. Also that Spain didn’t accept help from other countries?
Does the EU finance public maintenance for its member countries? I can’t believe Valencia doesn’t plan for flooding given their low elevation and past floods. However, I can imagine the EU cutting budgets to support their real agendas and interests.
Climate Change Kills
Climate change? How about a quick history lesson:
The 1957 storm dropped 12" and has a monument erected in memorial. A bit of history:
On the 13th of October of that year heavy rains of up to 300 litres per square metre fell in the basin of the River Turia. On the 14th the rains continued causing two flash floods to hit the city. The Turia flooded its banks at 2 in the morning and then again at midday after a brief respite, the levels of water reaching two metres in some parts of the city.
The river has its source near Albarracin in Teruel province and falls a total of 1,600 metres during its 280 kilometre descent to the sea.
It is a river that often barely deserves the name, but in epochs of heavy rains in Spring and Autumn it often swells and overflows its banks. These epochs of torrential monsoon-like rain are known as the “gota fria” (cold drop) by Valencians and although brief, are often considerably destructive.
Valencia was founded by the Romans in 138 B.C. and its history has been one of periodic flooding, although the double flooding of 1957 is thought to have been the worst.
One of the earliest documented floods occurred in October 1321, followed by others in 1340 and 1358, the latter, following a drought, destroying all the city’s bridges and killing 400 people.
The flood of 1476 was attributed to the wrath of God and blamed on the sins of the people by many would-be prophets of the time, and another followed in 1487.
The flood of 27th September 1517 was especially violent, accompanied by hail, lightning and a lion-like roaring, causing hundreds of deaths, attacks of madness and the destruction of all the city’s mills. Many priests and monks kept up a permanent public prayer session calling upon the waters to recede. There were also many earthquakes recorded that year. The 16th century saw various floods in 1540, 46, 55, 57, 77, 81 and 89.
It wasn’t climate change. It was the EU removing man-made obstructions to the flow!