This short video shows an underground car park beneath a shopping centre, with 5700 spaces, flooded to its ceiling. God knows what they will find down there. https://fb.watch/vD7nnYeIFv/?
Apparently flooding is usually minor in that town and people go to garage to move their cars. Six bodies found in one garage. Also people were driving home from work. Timing was awful.
It’s the nature of the storms that causes the problems. Every year Spain normally gets a Gota Fria, which is also known as DANA (Depresión Aislada en Niveles Altos), you just don’t know where it will be until it arrives. Gota Fria translates as cold drop and the best explanation I have heard to differentiate it from a normal storm is when you tip water out of a watering can, you see the individual streams of water to represent rainfall. With the Gota Fria you have to imagine being able to lift a bath full of water and then turn it over so that the water falls in one mass. It is that intense and when it goes on for 8+ hours at that intensity it overwhelms any normal drainage system. Most years there will be flooding but nothing like we have seen in the Valencia area. There are a lot of underground garages in Spain so there’s likely to be more bodies found, sadly. There have been some more storms today and flooding in the Murcia region, but not on the same level as in Valencia. These were just ordinary big storms, but big enough to overwhelm the drainage system, which to be honest, is quite normal here.
Reached for bottle of pills, caught it on the door, tablets fly out. Do they a) land somewhere on kitchen floor or b) land in dogs water bowl.
There is now an official figure for missing persons by the DANA in Valencia: 89 The Civil Guard has asked people who have a missing relative to go to the Valencia Civil Guard station, located at C/ Calamocha nº4, to make the corresponding report and to be able to take a DNA test, because of currently there are 62 bodies that remain unidentified at the forensic anatomy institute.
30 years ago we had Bob Hope, Johnny Cash, and Steve Jobs. Now we have no hope, no cash and no jobs. Please don't let Kevin Bacon die.
A short time lapse video showing how the rain hit near Barcelona. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?st...ZezLDEvBi3hSioPMA2mc268PQl&id=100000520142287
Jeez, I know it's time lapse but I've never seen anything like that before. I guess you are well away from this nightmare Badger? Are you living there full time now?
Wow. I’ve stayed at Castelldefels a few times, and travelled on that same railway line. That is unbelievable.
I’m a long way south of that Barcelona (but 180km south of Valencia the first flood with 200+ deaths) and for comparison of rainfall on that day, check below. I live 15 minutes outside of Torrevieja and I’m here full time. Didn’t think I would be able to get back as I spent 7 years back in the UK when my wife was fighting cancer, but because I had previously taken “Residencia” during the 7/8 years we were previously living here, I was able to return despite Brexit. The AEMET has today made public and official the data of rain registered in the weather station of Turis (Valencia). On October 29, a total of 771.8 litres per square meter was recorded there, of which 184.6 fell in just one hour. This data now represents Spain's record for rain in one hour. For you to compare, in Torrevieja that day we barely recorded 10 liters per square meter. In addition, in Torrevieja it usually rains about 280 liters per square meter in a whole year, which means that in Turis it fell in a day three times what usually falls here in a year. In the records we have of Torrevieja, the maximum rain we have had in a single day has been 240 liters per square meter, on September 4, 1989. It's data to compare and give us an idea of the falling rain in this already historic cold drop episode.
