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At least 62 killed in flooding in Spain

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More than 95 currently and many other missing. A lot of horrible personal dramas with children and elders missing. This will end being huge. Milton level or worse.

W Mediterranean seems to be slowly mimicking the hurrican problems in East coast of USA.

This can't be repeated enough. If you are an expatriate on the Spanish Mediterranean and is raining strong, go away from any Rambla as fast as you can. Don't stand in low areas. DON'T try to cross a river, never, ever. Seriously. Your cybertruck will not be able to deal with it, and you will die. Walking on 30 cm of water can kill you.

This kind of rain/flooding happens every 10-20 years in the region :(. Varies a bit with its intensity, but pretty much everyone has lived through at least one. (Lived 13 years near Dénia, 100km from Valencia)

Well,then it should be easy to get insurance for that..

Worse flood in Spain from the last 60 years. >5000 cars destroyed. Roads and fast train railways cut and many missing people still. About foreigners, the corpse of a British retiree was recovered.

Thousands of people received alerts on their phones, but it just happened too fast. People had 3 minutes from normal to 2m high water level inside the house, and many were surprised in the highway while driving. The authorities want to improve the phone system of alerts, including a black level beyond the current red.

The policy of last decades turning riverbeds into sterile concrete vases must be reviewed. Life forested river banks stop the water. Ecologists were saying this for 40 years. Concrete vases just accelerate and reinforce the flood. Of course people should stop building in the areas of influence of the riverbeds and those should be turned into gardens, but this is also an old issue discussed for years.

Update. Cleaning mud. Corpses trapped in garages and basements are being recovered. 158 people killed at this moment.

If I'm not wrong is yet officially the second worse natural disaster reported in Spain. Worse than Lorca's Earthquake, or la Palma Island Volcano. Even worse by the fact that many of the victims were recording everything with their phones in real time.

The storm front that caused that, is still active and moving towards the North.

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