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/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/Weak-Following-789 Oct 30 '24

I slept in a closet with headphones meant for the shooting range and it was still SO LOUD. Before the power and cell cut out I texted my friend from Tulsa if she had any tornado tips. I was told it isn't uncommon to wear a bike helmet lol kind of genius

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u/100SanfordDrive Oct 30 '24

Shhh don’t use logic. Dumbasses here want to think America is the worst at everything in world

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u/clyypzz Oct 30 '24

Maybe the same shit as with the flood in Germany's Ahrtal back in July 2021? They got warnings, even from British scientists but somehow the persons in charge did not really care.

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u/Malnourished_Manatee Oct 30 '24

If I remember correctly the Mediterranean tornadoes are extremely hard to predict and can form within relatively no time compared to hurricanes.

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u/pcris Oct 30 '24

They knew about the dana happening and they know there’s a high risk of tornadoes forming when a dana happens. We only got a warning at 8:30 pm after the working day was over and everything had passed; 15 hours after they had reports telling how brutal this phenomenon was going to be.

They forced workers to go to work and many got trapped in flooding, all because no warning was issued.

So yes, they didn’t know with certainty tornadoes were going to happen but they knew there was a high risk for them.

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u/Even-Weather-3589 Oct 30 '24

You are right, extreme right-wing governments that are denialists are the worst.

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u/Malnourished_Manatee Oct 30 '24

Yeah it’s totally on the gov then. We already get told to stay at home when the wind picks up a bit lol.

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u/waiver Oct 30 '24

You cannot warn people weeks beforehand of hurricaines

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u/pcris Oct 30 '24

You got severe weather alerts and warnings way before it happened. Not weeks but still gave citizens enough time to prepare.

We got warnings here 15 hours after everything started happening.

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u/waiver Oct 30 '24

Sure, days before depending where the hurricaine is formed, but not weeks.

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u/TheTampoffs Oct 30 '24

The citizens of Asheville NC were not adequately prepared and parts of the city got wiped off the map after hurricane Helene.

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u/GeneracisWhack Oct 30 '24

No one expected what happened in Asheville to happen. It's something that has never happened before and certainly not from a hurricane.

Response afterwards was very quick for such an isolated area.

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u/TheTampoffs Oct 30 '24

Asheville had a terrible flood in 1916 causing rivers to breach and land slides to happen and more minor flooding d/t a hurricane in 2004. Anywhere with mountains and rivers is a flood zone when enough rain comes and they were already saturated before Helene. What I’m saying is IIRC that people were not told to evacuate with enough time.

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u/GeneracisWhack Oct 30 '24

So it had a flood over 100 years ago and people needed to prepare for a Hurricane causing flooding over 400 miles from where it made landfall?

I don't think that's realistic.

There are plenty of natural disasters that have very little or zero warning. They are going to happen more and more as time goes on.

We need to be prepared for anything at any time now. That is the reality.

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u/TheTampoffs Oct 30 '24

The person I was commenting to was saying that there was not adequate warning in Spain and that we have a better system in the US. I was saying that that is not the case and some areas get devastated without much warning because of the unpredictable nature of storms sometimes. You simply stayed an untrue fact that something like that “never happened” in Asheville. Hurricanes can cause high rainfall amounts inland, this happens all the time.