Spain Floods - Part Deux

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Carl_VivaEspana

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13,165 posts

269 months

Wednesday 13th November
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First the rains came for the locals in Valencia now they are coming for the tourists and narcos in the Costa Del Sol and Marbs.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80lxd9kne0o

If you are in the area of this next wave please take it seriously.

Bill

54,246 posts

262 months

Wednesday 13th November
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They had it fairly bad two weeks ago when the floods hit too, but obviously the news focus was rightly on Valencia.

vaud

52,374 posts

162 months

Wednesday 13th November
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I’m in Calp at the moment and apparently the local authorities are putting every effort in to making sure the storm drains and spill ways are all clear.

Locals commented that the Valencia spillways were all blocked and hadn’t been cleared for years. I don’t know if that is true or heresay.

jdw100

4,879 posts

171 months

Thursday 14th November
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Carl_VivaEspana said:
First the rains came for the locals in Valencia now they are coming for the tourists and narcos in the Costa Del Sol and Marbs.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80lxd9kne0o

If you are in the area of this next wave please take it seriously.
Next wave is a poor choice of phrase.

Jimbo.

4,039 posts

196 months

Thursday 14th November
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vaud said:
Locals commented that the Valencia spillways were all blocked and hadn’t been cleared for years. I don’t know if that is true or heresay.
Same thing gets said every time it floods in most parts of the developed world. In reality, it wouldn’t have made the slightest bit of difference to what happened in Valencia: no drainage network in the world could have coped with that much rain and the muck it was carrying.