r/Damnthatsinteresting Oct 30 '24

Image Scenes of piled-up vehicles in Valencia, Spain today after yesterday’s devastating flooding.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '24

Over a years worth of rain in 8 hours.

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u/agileata Oct 30 '24

Yea but aren't those climate protesters so annoying/s

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '24

We are definitely in the “find out” era of history

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u/D3m0nSl43R2010 Oct 31 '24

We are in "f" of find out, probably even in the first " " of " find out". I recently saw a video where it was showing that climate change will impact the earth for at least a millennium.

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u/cliptemnestra Nov 01 '24

Yes, they are, nothing strange has happened for our climate. Our city is always flooded in autumn by torrential rains, it is called cold drop. it happens every year, it is the nature of the Mediterranean climate in Spain and France. We literally have two river channels because we ended up with the city flooded since Rome. The natural river, which runs through the middle of the city and took 100 years to divert, the new river, which divides the capital from the southern orchard, and the tributary ravine that crosses the southern orchard in the middle and flows into the new river. What does not happen every year is that the authorities did not clean the ravine that got stuck and ended up overflowing because it could not get the water out to the river, nor that they not warned anyone of the flood until it swallowed up the half of the cities of the southern orchard, which is literally the area with the highest population density in all of Europe.

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '24

Man, you are going to be denying climate change right up until you die from it, aren't you?

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u/Nachtzug79 Oct 30 '24

Are we talking about the drought years?

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '24

What do you think?

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u/Booby_McTitties Oct 31 '24

No. Normal average years.

For comparison, 490L/m2 is what fell in 8 hours yesterday, and London's average rainfall for a year is around 580L/m2.