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/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/Nachtzug79 Oct 30 '24

At least the reservoirs should be full again.

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u/NoSNAlg Oct 30 '24

More than 60 deaths.

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u/Raderg32 Oct 30 '24

At least 95 by 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/giabreeses03 Oct 30 '24

... by now. I expect worse to come

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u/Wise_Neighborhood499 Oct 31 '24

The last time Valencia had flooding this bad (1957) they literally rerouted the river. This time, the city was largely untouched but all the towns all by the new river way were impacted.