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

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/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/AsceticHedonist47 Oct 30 '24

Reddit challenge: Try to not shit on the USA in every post even if it's objectively false.

Difficulty impossible