Has your better half taken an umbrella and raincoat as she doesn’t like Spanish ones? Spanish danger to life weather alerts carry more clout than ours which are issued for a heavy drizzle or a dusting of snow an should b taken notice of.
Spanish danger to life warnings are an absolute farce, that’s why 200 people died there and 200 people don’t die here.
The official responsible for authorising the sending of the emergency alerts, was apparently out on a three hour lunch with some young female journalist and as a consequence, several places were already completely flooded by the time the alert went out.
The reason 200 don’t die here is we don’t have the rain here they did. Not to mention due to EU green policies they had got rid of the dams which would have diverted a lot of the water away from Valencia.
It's not unusual when travelling in Spain in the summer to see bridges over dry river beds. Going by the size of them it's clear to see that they get a lot of water.
And when they do it comes in an absolute torrent. They had a years worth in 8 hours in the Valencia region. We would not cope with that.
Their years worth would be about a days worth here wouldn't it?!? And the point that we haven't got the floods here must prove that our 'climate emergency net zero actions are actually working.
Wrong. They had 450mm in 8 hours. Hull averages 756 in a year. We do have similar floods here is nothing to do with our climate emergency net zero actions. It is hilarious to think so.
Parts of the Lake District average 3,500mmm a year (and can have over 300mm in a day), but obviously it's normal so the infrastructure's there to deal with it.
re. 1st point. Ok, fair enough if true. That's quite amazing. Re. 2nd point. #woosh. Surprised at you!!
Yes. Should have realised that you, unlike some on here, wouldn’t have been dumb enough to post that.
No, I can look up figures, read them and understand them. Unfortunately those things are beyond your capabilities.
Last time they had a flood like that in Valencia was in 1957. So the theory about climate change being responsible is shaky. One problem in that region is the hard ground because of the hot weather. Nowhere for a large amount of rain to be absorbed. Ironic when many structures collapsed that a 2,000 year old Roman structure was undamaged and helped avoid an even worse disaster.
The last time Valencia flooded was 2020 and the next time is potentially going to be today or tomorrow, there's nothing shaky about it being linked to climate change.
