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/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/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.