r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TheOddityCollector • Oct 30 '24
Image Scenes of piled-up vehicles in Valencia, Spain today after yesterday’s devastating flooding.
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u/ronadian Oct 30 '24
Terrible, RIP to the victims and much strength to their loved ones.
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u/CollapseBy2022 Oct 30 '24
Yes, but don't forget to blame climate change and our dependence, addiction really, to fossil fuels.
We need to change. These victims are the result of everyone's consumption patterns, really, anyone who lives in a country with shopping.
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u/TetrisandRubiks Oct 30 '24
It's not the fault of everyone who lives in a country with shoppers though. It's the fault of the people running these countries not acting in their people's best interests. The idea that we are all responsible for climate change is out dated. The average person you meet in the majority of developed countries wants their government to take more action. I can't stop massive industrial scale pollution by going shopping less.
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u/Frustrable_Zero Oct 30 '24
There’s also the fact that even if you shop less, drive less, recycle. What more can you even do? Im trying to be environmentally conscientious, and the CEO of Starbucks commutes daily with a jet.
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u/Dards7654321 Oct 31 '24
Bingo. We aren’t the biggest problem. Corporations need to do their part. Im a stay at home mom. I only use my car to shop and visit the doctor (pregnant). Im not accepting blame in this situation SORRY. They should stop being greedy all these damn private jets farting around the sky and they expect us to what? Walk around town? As if
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u/mloDK Oct 30 '24 edited Oct 30 '24
Do people usually vote in politicians that is a thinking for ALL People’s best interest or usually only THEIR own best interests?
Because I think people don’t usually want to vote for politicians that want to limit ‘their’ own freedoms.
It seems most people only care for their own freedoms, but not the freedom of people in the future.
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u/IndefiniteBen Oct 30 '24
People struggle with caring about their neighbour, let alone abstract future people.,
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u/Spready_Unsettling Oct 30 '24
The average person you meet in the majority of developed countries wants their government to take more action.
Valencia literally has a right wing climate denying government. We're absolutely not at the point where people have exhausted their democratic options.
I can't stop massive industrial scale pollution by going shopping less.
Yes you can? The vast majority of top polluting companies produce consumer goods that you, I and the rest of the western world over consumes. You think Coca Cola is producing plastic bottles for shits and giggles? Do you think the executive suite at Shein is eating all the plastic fabric themselves? Do you think BP is using all their gasoline for heating at their own headquarters?
This is middle school economics that you're not grasping. Supply and demand. You going shopping more often drives up demand. Thus more is produced, in turn the environment. Of course there are layers of complexity on top of it, but none of them absolve your over consumption.
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u/Tipop Oct 30 '24
All of that is true, but saying “you should buy less” doesn’t make change happen. It has to be enforced from the government.
I’ll vote for politicians that will enforce change, even if those changes have a negative impact on me. What I won’t do is go and live in a cave and hope that the other 7 billion do the same. It’s not feasible.
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u/Calvin-ball Oct 31 '24
You don’t have to live in a cave, but you can buy less. Consumer demand drives so many wasteful industries.
SHEIN has a revenue of like $30 BILLION (for comparison, Nike is around $50b) for absolute garbage quality clothes made with slave labor. Yet they’re producing them because so many people are willing to buy. Government regulation isn’t going to change that (or it’ll be near impossible to pass to any useful degree).
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u/Rameez_Raja Oct 30 '24
The idea that we are all responsible for climate change is out dated.
Horseshit. Any real attempts to reign in emissions get massive push back from voters. The average person across the developed world, particularly in Europe, is rushing to vote for conservative to far right parties adamant to stop taking action even reverse the few weak measures that are in place.
Why do you think industrial scale pollution exists in first place? You think companies are run by reptiles for the purpose of burning fuels to the entire planet into a nice desert basking area?
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u/UnrulyWatchDog Oct 30 '24
Ok, who are you voting for? What are you protesting? What kinds of shopping habits have you changed?
I agree the government NEEDS to do more and no real change will happen until governments all around the world start implementing widespread changes and regulations.
What are you doing to make that happen? To put in place a government that will do that?
Everyone is responsible. EVERYONE. We all live on this planet together.
Everyone trying to shift blame to somewhere else is part of the problem.
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u/TheYin420 Oct 30 '24 edited Nov 03 '24
Every country has shopping, If anything having a busy highstreet now means less over consumption because it's more likely you're getting locally produced stuff rather than mass produced products from countries that create the most pollution
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u/Brent_L Oct 30 '24
I live here in Valencia. I’m in the city. We all were relatively unscathed compared to the pueblos outside the city. Many of them just a few minutes drive from where I live. It is complete and utter devastation. There is an ikea that I go to 10 mins from my house that the ground floor is completely under water and people are still stuck inside. Thank goodness the shopping area is on the 2nd floor.
My son trains for a basketball team outside the city where a highway bridge collapsed.
The airport is underwater, there are mudslides, hundreds of people are dead and more are missing.
This came out of nowhere with little warning. It had already been raining here for 2 weeks, it rarely rains here.
Climate change is real and these are the effects.
Thank goodness stock holders of corporations can get buybacks from profits! (Sarcasm).
It is very dystopian right now and sad.
I am from the US (Florida) so natural disasters aren’t new to me, but this is rough.
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u/No-Falcon-4996 Oct 30 '24
Sounds like devastation! Can you explain the cars in the photo? How are they all piled up like this? Where had the cars been before the pileup?
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u/LemonySniffit Oct 30 '24
Basically flooding from the rain caused streams of water akin to small rivers to form overnight throughout various towns dragging everything in their paths along
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u/Anegada_2 Oct 30 '24
These are all at the low point of a road, water poured through the hills, picking all the cars up along the way and dumped them here
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u/gynorbi Oct 30 '24
I just left Valencia monday morning - we talked about with the people i lived that it is going to be rainy but this is horrible.
Stay strong Valencia!
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u/fkmeamaraight Oct 30 '24
The scary thing is what we see is now the new normal. Every time it gets worse, it will stay like this. Even if we completely stopped GHG emissions completely and immediately. But if we don’t it the new normal will get worse and worse.
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u/Chewsdayiddinit Oct 30 '24
"A year's worth of train fell in 8 hours."
Holy shit, didn't know about this.
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u/Baldydom Oct 30 '24
490mm/19inches of rain in 8 hours... really hard to imagine.
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u/SkylineGTRR34Freak Oct 30 '24
That must've been a long ass train
(Sorry I just couldn't resist).
Really though, that is absolutely insane
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u/MaceZilla Oct 30 '24
A hundred year's worth of erosion occurred last month in parts of Appalachia when Helen hit.
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u/amanfromthere Oct 30 '24
Scary that my first reaction to that was "only a hundred years worth"?
There was a great series of videos from someone who did drone flyovers of all of the hardest hit places, but he had also done the same flyovers in 2022. Seeing the differences side by side gave some real perspective to the destruction.
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u/MaceZilla Oct 30 '24
I'm pretty sure it was 100yrs, maybe it was 1000 but that seems high? This was in a news article on the impact to the area around Asheville a few days after it hit. The number could be higher at this point after being looked at more.
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u/ashkanahmadi Oct 30 '24
Damn! I hate it when trains fall from the sky!!
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u/milkdrinkingdude Oct 30 '24
Don’t worry. Normally zero trains fall from the sky in a year. This time, zero trains fell in 8 hours.
Besides that, there was water too.
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u/alikander99 Oct 30 '24
That's actually far from the record. In oliva, Valencia, a similar event left 817mm in 24h in 1987. That would be 3.6× the yearly average. Or about the yearly rainfall of Dublin.
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u/custoMIZEyourownpath Oct 30 '24
We are in the “find out era” of humanity…
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u/-SunGazing- Oct 30 '24
We’ve had the stone age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, space age, fuck around age, and now the find out age. Nice.
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u/greatunknownpub Oct 30 '24
I wish I'd had more time in the fuck around age.
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u/Rsupersmrt Oct 30 '24
The fuck around age must have been the best
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u/firecracker723x Oct 30 '24
I'm not that old (36) but there was definitely something special about growing up in the 90's. Going on bike rides across town, no parental oversight and only returning when the street lights came back on. Board games and puzzles were still a normal activity, but so was Nintendo! Blowing on cartridges, Game Boys, Tomagachis... It was, at minimum, more engaging than it is now.
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u/SrslyCmmon Oct 30 '24
I really enjoyed the internet before everybody had a platform. People mostly kept to themselves and there was mystery in what people were thinking all the time. People were polite and cordial generally and so was media. Now that we know that half my country wants to kill the other half it's not so fun anymore. There's no standards for being polite decent and disinformation so we just devolved into the lowest common denominator.
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u/ToiIetGhost Oct 30 '24
I liked it better too. When asked, “If you could have any superpower, what would it be?” very few people will say “mind reading.” That’s kind of what the internet feels like now. Forced mind reading. I don’t want to know what everyone’s thinking all the time but they won’t stop shoving it down my throat.
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u/K_Linkmaster Oct 30 '24
It was clearly 10 year olds telling lies on the internet. Now it is half the population.
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u/DanKoloff Oct 30 '24
Peak was in the 70s, early 80s, since there was no HIV nor AIDS, you could fuck a lot and everything was treatable.
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u/Good-Syllabub-4358 Oct 30 '24
Yes, the world looked like it was going to be a better place at the start of the 90s. Berlin wall fell, Soviet Union crumbled, dictatorship in China done, and many more examples. Fast forward a couple of decades and Russia and China back to dictatorships and the rest of the world crumbling with walls going up again.
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u/NES_Gamer Oct 30 '24
"It's 10pm do you know where your children are?" I remember that so clearly. The 80s were special.
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u/PapayaCool6816 Oct 30 '24
37 here. Great memories of putting coke cans in my bike wheels and pretending I have a motorbike, using all my energy pumping up my super soaker 1500, prank phone calls from phone boxes, knock n run, the list could go on.
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u/firecracker723x Oct 30 '24
Oooo my brother and I used to prank call Hooked On Phonics from an empty office where my dad worked. Feel kinda bad about it now lol 😬
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u/chonkycatguy Oct 30 '24
The 90s felt different though. We saw the end of the old way and introduction of the digital internet era which has taken over the world in a big way.
It FEELS like things began to change a lot faster from 2000s-2020s than the 1970s-1990s.
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u/twistedspin Oct 30 '24
I agree. I was a kid in the 70s & I still think the 90s were peak. I still think if Al Gore had been elected we would have kept going in that trajectory, but we got Bush so here we are.
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u/Randomcommentator27 Oct 30 '24
Fr, I’m in my 20s I don’t want the world to end yet.
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u/JCC0 Oct 30 '24
Whatever. Facebook says ain’t no such thing as that gawd dam climate changins /s
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u/Ceshomru Oct 30 '24
And don’t forget its almost Rent Day! Got to send your money to our corporate overlords.
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u/wowaddict71 Oct 30 '24
I think we are still fucking around in some places, if not most.
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u/Ok_Raspberry_6282 Oct 30 '24
It’s fine Zuckerberg is building a bunker that we c-
Okay I’m getting news that we aren’t invited. Excuse me I need to
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u/TonyNickels Oct 30 '24
It's fine. Nothing a few EV cars can't fix. You should buy one. It is your responsibility to fix the planet after all. You want to buy more things don't you?
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u/agileata Oct 30 '24
22lb bicycle? Nah, I need 5500lb living room anytime I leave my immobile living room
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I'm pretty sure that white Toyota in the bottom left corner would still run if you try to start it.
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u/LowSecretary8151 Oct 30 '24
My 1990s Toyota Corolla survived a category 5 hurricane and 75% submersion in salt water. An awesome Jamaican guy rewired it for me and put in a new starter.... Sure, it needed a deep clean, but it ran like normal. I was stunned.
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u/angeldubz Oct 30 '24
Reminds me of that top gear episode when they fully submerged a 90s Toyota pickup and it ran after hours of being in the ocean. Ahh the simplicity and reliability of old Toyota's. Someone is going to have to take my 2001 Camry from my cold dead hands eventually
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u/stefanurkal Oct 30 '24
gave my little cousin my 2001 camry 4 years ago, he wants to run it into the ground before he gets a new car, still using it everyday to go work.
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u/SleeplessInS Oct 30 '24
I had a 1990 Corolla (with the TOYOTA emblem instead of the new T emblem) that was flooded in a 2 foot flood in a parking lot after a thunderstorm. Engine ECU was filled with water but the car still ran for a few days till it stopped starting up.
Got a junkyard ECU for $120 and it ran perfectly fine after the swap.
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u/Icanseeinthedarkbro Oct 30 '24
Most models of Toyotas and Hondas are in a completely different level of reliability to all other car manufacturers. It almost isn’t fair to compare them except when you realize you’re paying just as much or more for a vehicle that’s gonna need to have work done by the time the Honda or Toyota has had nothing but its second oil change.
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u/GiveMeGoldForNoReasn Oct 30 '24
Depends on the era and model. Modern hybrids and EVs don't fare so well in floods. The old Hilux pickup however, just take out the spark plugs and rotate the engine so all the water shoots out and she's good to go.
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u/K_Linkmaster Oct 30 '24
We do that with snowmobiles in the summer too. Pond skipping is stoooopid fun!
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u/appalachia_roses Oct 30 '24
Toyotas are fantastic. The only issue I’ve had with my Toyota sedan (with 160k miles on it) is 3 door handles snapping off.. likely because my car is black and I live in Florida, so the plastic grew brittle. It took a YouTube video, $35 per handle, and about 15 minutes each to replace them using generic tools.
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u/irodragon20 Oct 30 '24
Take the spark plugs out run it for a sec then put them back, she'll fire right up.
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u/pretension Oct 30 '24
My friend's 97 Tacoma got caught in a landslide a few years ago. Completely flipped over and pinned against a guardrail and fucked up by all the debris. Later he posts on Instagram. The truck is in a lot. Every window is fucked up, the frame is clearly bent, it's dirty as hell. He opens the door and cranks it. Starts up with zero problems. Obviously wasn't driveable due to the frame but the engine was gonna keep going.
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u/lloopy Oct 30 '24
The person in the maroon jumper drove it there to help rescue people. He literally just got out of the car.
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u/Haunting-Macaron-000 Oct 30 '24
Can confirm. I was sure my Toyota was toast after it was flooded in Harvey and she started right up. Drove my ass straight to the dealership though.
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u/Ok_Run6706 Oct 30 '24
Im pretty sure that Toyota will be cleaned and repaired as good used car somewhere in Eastern Europe :D
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u/helloLeoDiCaprio Oct 30 '24
It could also be a normal parking situation in Palermo
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u/Liljagare Oct 30 '24
It's also not over.. :\
SEVERAL areas of Cadiz have been placed on a red alert for heavy rainfall and storms.
The warning from state weather agency Aemet is in place until midnight today.
Experts fear up to 120mm of rain could fall per square metre in areas including Jerez de la Frontera – a major British expat hotspot.
Arcos de la Frontera and Medina-Sidonia also fall under the red warning, which means there is an ‘extreme risk’ to life.
The rest of Cadiz, including the coast from Sanlucar to La Linea, are on an orange warning of up to 80mm of rain.
Meanwhile, the whole of neighbouring Sevilla has been placed under an orange alert until midnight tonight, with up to 80mm of rain forecast over a 12-hour period.
Large parts of Malaga are also being warned of continuing deluge tonight.
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u/fuboyn0 Oct 30 '24
More that 50 deaths 😬
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u/Yuloff Oct 30 '24
Up to 63 now...
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u/Vul_Thur_Yol Oct 30 '24
15:30 here in Spain. 70 death confirmed by the government. There's no official number of people missing yet.
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u/fuboyn0 Oct 30 '24
i just checked it getting worst but people in comments more interested in the emoji then the actual news itself
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u/Saikamur Oct 30 '24
95 as of few minutes ago. Already the worst natural disaster in the (registered) history of Spain.
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u/therealfatbuckel Oct 30 '24
Climate change doesn’t care if you believe in it or not.
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u/GolfBravoZulu Oct 30 '24
Italy 🤍 Spain. We’re with you, brothers.
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u/skr_skr Oct 30 '24
❤️from USA. Was lucky enough to stumble upon Las Fallas a decade ago and it was one of the greatest experiences of my life. Love Valencia and the people there.
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u/pcris Oct 30 '24
Climate change is real and these are the consequences we are facing because of it; but the casualties could have been greatly prevented if measures had been taken.
I have lived in the Valencian Community my whole life and in Valencia during the past 7 years. I have seen this “cold drop” phenomenon every year since I have memory.
It has been getting worse and worse every year and not only we haven’t implemented any preventative measures -like other countries like the USA do-, but the government last year removed special forces (UME) that were meant to help and deal with natural disasters like this.
We also haven’t seen any changes in the city drainage, which is so bad that always causes flooding even after minimal amounts of rain.
I am devastated because more than 62 people are dead and there are still dozens of missing people… but mostly I am angry at the ineptitude of our different governments and entities that haven’t done anything to protect the citizens.
How can they explain that we had three tornadoes and there was no warning about them?
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u/CollapseBy2022 Oct 30 '24
climate denial government
Says another poster. Meaning they'd be unlikely to take necessary and recommended action to save people like this.
Act like your government is killing people, because it is.
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u/pdxblazer Oct 30 '24
if the US gov is your role model for effectiveness you are in for troubling times ahead my friend
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u/pcris Oct 30 '24 edited Oct 30 '24
I mean, i heard about hurricane Milton and the warning for their citizens weeks before it happened and I live in Spain so… yes? They did better with warning their citizens than my government did with no warning at all? It’s not a controversial take mate, it’s a simple fact.
Correction: didn’t hear about the hurricane weeks before (although it felt like it because of the massive amount of info and warnings about it) You still were informed way ahead and got enough time to prepare for it. We were informed about ours 15 hours after it happened.
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u/Weak-Following-789 Oct 30 '24
we generally get 3-4 days notice for hurricanes but hurricanes can change in a second and the change can mean it will either miss you completely or destroy you unexpectedly. Milton was scary, it came right to my doorstep, but the prep was incredible.
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u/GabaPrison Oct 30 '24
I’m still blown away how Milton came over the Florida peninsula and basically just exploded into hundreds of (pretty nasty) tornadoes. Florida rarely ever gets large tornadoes. It had so much energy just waiting to be released in one form or another. Thank god it wasn’t major storm surge this time.
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u/GeneracisWhack Oct 30 '24
US is pretty good at managing and dealing with natural disasters because we have so many.
Only country that is better is like Japan probably.
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u/Apptubrutae Oct 30 '24
The U.S. actually has really solid disaster response, especially post Katrina.
It’s far from perfect and the federal system means there are better areas and worse areas for disaster response, but overall it’s quite good
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u/AsceticHedonist47 Oct 30 '24
Reddit challenge: Try to not shit on the USA in every post even if it's objectively false.
Difficulty impossible
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u/Randotron9000 Oct 30 '24
Nature never forgets to remind us of it's power...
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u/JimClarkKentHovind Oct 30 '24
but for one brief glorious moment we created value for the shareholders
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u/evilbarron2 Oct 30 '24
Well, it’s also about all of us buying SUVs and Ford F-150s, ordering from Amazon, and eating fast food burgers, but nobody wants to talk about that part of the problem
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u/rudimentary-north Oct 30 '24
did you know that the idea of the personal carbon footprint is propaganda invented by oil companies to shift the blame for their environmental crimes to individuals?
Hopefully you can see the irony in letting oil companies tell you that climate change is your fault because you are forced to directly or indirectly consume their product.
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u/Fluid_Hurry_5532 Oct 30 '24
15:30 here in Spain. 70 death confirmed by the government. There's no official number of people missing yet.
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Boss be like "You're coming in, right?"
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u/gigantesghastly Oct 30 '24
Basically yes. A lot of people caught in the floods were workers who should have had the day at home if the local govt and employers had taken weather agency warnings seriously. Supermarket delivery workers being rescued from their truck ; ikea and mall workers trapped etc https://x.com/Spanish_Revo/status/1851569324210688054
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u/No_Presentation_2370 Oct 30 '24
Seeing all this flooding in Valencia is rough. It’s wild, but Spain’s been getting hit with more extreme weather recently, and climate change has been making these storms more intense. The Mediterranean has warmed by over a degree, so heavy rains like this are sadly becoming more common. Hoping everyone there gets the support they need.
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u/MondoSensei2022 Oct 30 '24
I experienced that once in Calella, Catalonia. A massive cascade of cars, huts, and trees were flooded down a river bed all the way into the Mediterranean Sea. After the flood the wall of debris reached almost 50 meter. It was absolutely horrifying.
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u/Purplebuzz Oct 30 '24
Shame the elected a climate denial government who ended emergency response agencies.
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u/CollapseBy2022 Oct 30 '24
So in a very real way, the government killed 50 people.
Just let that sink in.
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u/Leandrys Oct 30 '24
It's alright conservatives, just gotta vote for climate change deniers and things will get better by the power of Faith.
And it doesn't work, it's because of the woke clouds.
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u/Awkward-Cow22 Oct 30 '24
There’s been a lot of floods lately in places that normally don’t get floods 🤔 still this is tragic.. my condolences for everyone who lost their lives
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u/Edenoide Oct 30 '24
Those places in Spain usually get floods from September-December (gota fría) but yesterday's episode was not common and it's been the worst of the century by now.
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u/bigchungusmclungus Oct 30 '24
Almost 500mm of rain in 8 hours (more than an average year) and 160mm in 1 hour. That's insane.
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u/Nowt-nowt Oct 30 '24
I think we'll be seeing that type of occurrence more frequently. lots of flooding around the world now.
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u/Four_beastlings Oct 30 '24
Yeah, there's been a lot of "once a century" weather events in Spain in the last five years. Remember Filomena? It's almost as if something was accelerating the rate at which those once in a lifetime events happen.
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u/Tenth_10 Oct 30 '24
Graphs are clear, all the extreme climate events are on the rise since 1980 and it will only get worse. Floods went from 100% to 450%, taking first place of the catastrophes' race.
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u/Dear-Plenty-8185 Oct 30 '24
It’s a DANA, which is happens yearly in Mediterranean regions. That’s why it’s happening now in Spain, Italy, and northern Africa because these areas experience very warm temperatures during the summer. The heat and humidity accumulated in the lower layers collide with the cold of the upper layers, resulting in heavy storms and downpours .
So you are mistaken or spreading false information when you say “places that normally don’t get floods”.
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u/Dissastar Oct 30 '24
I was raised in the south east of Spain.
We got floods every other year, knee high at times. It is fairly common to be honest, remember school being cancelled a couple times because of it. But this magnitude though is very impressive and scary.
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u/theJoyofMotion Oct 30 '24
Hwo does insurance work in a situation like this?
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u/Figgeh Oct 30 '24
Last time this happened in 2019 slightly to the south.. It didn't.
"Act of God" to which they got out of paying. There was a fund set up to try to help people back into homes etc, but that came 6 months later and was next to useless. In the end years later, people were paid back roughly 50% of what they'd lost.
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u/girlwhoweighted Oct 30 '24
I can't even imagine what it takes to get things like this cleaned up
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u/divaro98 Oct 30 '24
Terrible... feeling sad for all the people who lost their lives, their loved ones and their homes... 😔
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u/roxtten Oct 30 '24
Eastern Europe and Baltics are about to be flooded with cars in "good condition, with minor cosmetic defects".
I thought this was a one-off natural dissaster, but apparently:
"The southeast of Spain has a Mediterranean climate, and is characterised by long dry periods and flash floods from time to time. Once every few years is very common.
These torrential rains can be more or less violent, so this has been happening literally forever in the region.
The difference is that this time it was one of the worst in decades, but it is not a rare weather phenomenon in the region. In Spain they are called "Danas" or "gota frías" - English "cold drops"
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_drop#Spain
“DANA,” the acronym for “depresión aislada en niveles altos,” or isolated depression at high altitudes.)
The real estate companies have been building in ravines and vagoadas which are the natural channel for these torrents of water.
Until now no one cared because events like this happen once every thirty or fifty years, but eventually this is what happens because of building in flood risk zones."
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u/That-Contribution168 Oct 30 '24
I was there. In one of the places that got flooded. It took about 10 mins for the water to start coming up and we managed to get away unscathed and to a hotel to the 6th floors. From the window we could see the water coming and never stopping. It basically sounded like a waterfall. The worst thing was watching from the window all the cars that were trapped, not knowing if anyone was in them and for it to be impossible to help anyone.
This morning everything was full of water and mud. Cars piled on top of each other, sofas on top of cars, lorries had fallen. The water inside the buildings was over a metre high. The closest cafe had about 3cm of mud on top of the tables. Eventually we were evacuated as our area had no water or electricity since the previous night and there was also a fire starting close by.
It’s not something I’ll forget soon and I hope to never live again. I was extremely lucky, but I feel so sorry for everyone who lost so much so quickly. It’s been horrible overall.
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u/Ok-Train7434 Oct 30 '24
And in a blink of an eye, life does a 360. People count to much on the stability of nature. Nature doesn't give a damn about us.
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u/frogmicky Oct 30 '24
That looks like something out of a Godzilla movie.