Flash floods in Spain: Muddy torrents sweeping away cars as huge storms hit | DW News

[@NickySphinx]

Horrible situation, no words... Condolences to Valencia.😢😢😢🙏🙏🙏

[@murkhuddindalal]

nowadays floods and cyclones can be artificially started. that is how far the technology has evolved. looks like a conspiracy and inside job

[@sumosprojects]

Humble sympathy to the folks in this disaster zone, we in Australia understand such devastating occurrences & 🙏for the best for you.

[@Mercalons]

Gracias

[@michaelsparks6084]

Praying for the people of Spain affected by this tragedy!❤

[@Mercalons]

Thanks

[@KimberlyPerrotis]

How terrible, my sympathies to everyone affected.

[@Koba_26]

This is so unfortunate and sad. Hopefully, all affected by the tragedy receive adequate support soon, and are helped back onto a path of recovery and healing.

[@Norunormii]

It’s done on purpose, don’t believe the lying media

[@DavidAlfredoGuisado]

140 confirmed dead was the latest update, rest in peace.

[@hjordistorfa]

My heartfelt Condolences to the people of Spain that have suffer from thiis devastating weather conditiones.. this is Hard to watch.. Love & Respect to all the Rescue teams and First Responders doing Amazing job 💞🇮🇸✌️😢💞

[@aliyuhaidar8200]

This is very sad, my condolences to all Spanish people 😢

[@josemariadegregorio2509]

Thanks

[@MatCendana]

I'm in Malaysia where floods are to be expected in certain parts of the country. And we had indeed suffered some really severe ones, like in 2021. But for countries which are usually arid, there is significantly less predictability of how things will go when there's abnornally high rainfall. As with in Spain right now. Some really horrible scenes including at 2:49. This kind of event must serve as a warning for everyone, regardless of where they live, to think ahead of "worst case" situations. And have a rough plan on the options should these occur. My condolences to the families of those killed, and sympathies for the various losses suffered.

[@mbengaful]

In this area they are used to heavy rainfalls but this was one in a millenia kind of event, you can't realistically create infrastructure to handle that. There was a red alert by the weather agency but people didn't take it seriously enough or the failed to communicate the severity of the situation. Many died trapped while they were trying to take their cars out of underground garages for instance.

[@pennypink3759]

How terrifying so sorry this has happened.

[@anoopmohite961]

When you observe the arial view the reason seams to be deforestation.

[@grimx5772]

Nations around the world needs to prepare for more flood. Build more drain sewers and more green parks to absorb excess rain

[@roberto8998]

Google HAARP!

[@jkostka8177]

Geoengineering!! Wake up!

[@hetedeleambacht6608]

geoengeneering, what do you mean?

[@greenknitter]

@@hetedeleambacht6608 It's a conspiracy theory for those who don't want to accept man made climate change is real. I just ignore these deluded people.

[@jasonthompson514]

@@hetedeleambacht6608Google it , to many people playing with the weather

[@vashtiesanhai-okieffe5008]

Really sad, condolences to the people of Valencia

[@rabbitfishtv]

We were there just 10 days ago on vacation, marvelling at the beauty of the region and the friendliness of the people. This is a terrible shock.

[@sailingwiththegods538]

Hopefully your country's government has a much better response than we had here in the US.

[@talullahlabelle]

Stop messing with the weather, people are dying!!! 🤬🤬🤬

[@ummkhadijahtu1]

It's not from messing with the weather. It's from the sins of the people.

[@sarnian9055]

Seeing the ice that we’ve lost in Canada has far reaching impacts. The atmosphere can hold more water now. Always been floods… the world more prone to it now.

[@Devotee_of_the_Divine]

My condolences to the people 🙏

[@douglashouston81]

So painful for Spain 🇪🇸, my heart goes out to the people and family's who have lost loved ones. Deforestation, climate manipulation, and naturally occurring weather, but of course the media only blame man made climate change. Pathetic 😢

[@leedennett3036]

Yep

[@mikeaugust747]

"Climate change" is to blame they say. Sure, never let a catastrophe go to waste.

[@misterbonzoid5623]

You make no sense. Just because you don't understnad simple science doesn't make it wrong.

[@teslarob4790]

Better than "god did it." Though if there is a "GOD" he would be wise to create a wave 1000 miles high and just wash it across the planet at this point. We can pray.

[@lorena.3.19.22]

​@@misterbonzoid5623 geoengineering, wake up!

[@marco-gb7if]

Tenete duro amici spagnoli ❤ 🇮🇹❤️🇪🇦

[@YellowFlowerInTheDessert]

So sad 😢. Things like these are happening everywhere in the world now. Authorities are not prepared. Infrastructure is not prepared. Poor people and animals 😢.

[@jkostka8177]

Geoengineering!! Wake up!

[@scottturner6139]

All made made. Has been going on since the 60's.

[@greenknitter]

@@jkostka8177 Conspiracy theory bs. YOU wake up and become scientifically literate.

[@jasonthompson514]

@@jkostka8177more need to open there eyes 👀

[@sandy57ful1]

So sudden and extreme. A sign of our times. My deepest sympathy to you all.

[@TheBigChill1]

Due to the terrain conditions around a huge part of Spain, flash floods will be for sure a more usual phenomena... Spain is a huge dry desert, and climate change heavy storms and rains will create more serious floods elsewhere in the country... Humanity have to learn that we can't control nature and we are an important part of it...! Unless humans start to think on a more sustainable and resilient way we are doomed to face always the same kind of "natural" tragedies...

[@nebojsaessenio3805]

Porque no plantamos árboles nesesitamos sabedoria que dise si pensamo solo de dinero destruiendo madre Tiera Ai consequencias tenemos que respetar madre Tiera ella es más forte y nos otros somos parte 😢

[@hetedeleambacht6608]

asi es, esperi que los gentes comprenderen finalmente!!! mucha suerte de belgica

[@jliriano8543]

I am so so sorry. Watching this in American. 😢

[@josemariadegregorio2509]

Thanks so much

[@sebastianteister]

5:38 think about, how fragile this human construction is. Just for a Moment

[@dulseporree8280]

What happened our Planet, today? now so bad everywhere around the World. So sad,😢 sorry my condolence 😢.

[@talesfromtheleashexpatdogl1426]

When back to back hurricanes recently hit the US, a huge contributor to global emissions, Nepal was experiencing horrible floods. Nepal isn't responsible for huge emissions. Media barely covered Nepal's deadly and destructive floods

[@yasminsawar4762]

A horrible event. Simply horrible. My sincerest condolences to all those affected. Be strong, Spain. You are a beautiful and resilient nation. Our prayers and thoughts are with you during this testing time.

[@dulseporree8280]

My town also valencia, but not in Spain. Very dangerous the water is running. So sad

[@paulabennett4788]

Thinking of you in this terrible time.

[@NihalBandara-n8m]

Godbless u spain ❤

[@hinthegroove9740]

The rain is Spain is no longer just a tongue twister, may they recover soon.

[@kompila]

Terrible. My heart pours for all affected.

[@daisyrosario3438]

Sadly the government has been slow to respond

[@roberto8998]

Die hebben dit probleem juist veroorzaakt!!! Door sinds 2021 honderden dammen weg te halen .. Dat veroorzaakt deze horror!! Samen met he wereld natuur fonds!!! Lees! Zij zijn er nog trots op ook😡

[@anguscampbell1533]

Governments of the world have been 30 years to late responding...

[@arwen_2.0]

They just dont. They are plenty of people being promised help and being given nothing after years.

[@quan7umleap]

Government caused this...

[@elel928]

Lived in Spain for past 20 year. The rivers beds are dry a lot of the year so people use the dry river beds on the edge of villages to park their cars. As the rivers enter the towns they are usually routed into concrete channels that run down the main streets. Again I have seen people use these also as parking! What normally happens is that when rain is forecast people move their cars from the dry river bed. The concrete channels in the towns produces very fast flowing water. In this case such a large volume of rain fell that the channelized rivers in town centres could not cope with the volume of water. The water overflowed the banks of the river beds and dragged in cars, and lots of cane plants which blocked the channel further in the towns as it passed under bridges. On multiple occasions I have seen cars floating down rivers and I have also been to the beach after a flash flood and seen the water covered with giant cane stalks. It is normal in coastal towns and villages when a storm is known to be coming that cheap bricks "tochanas" will be temporarily cemented to a height of about 25cm in shop and house doorways so that the water can flow down the streets as an additional conduits direct to the sea. The storms are expected in Catalonia this weekend so The towns will be preparing all of the above to mitigate.

[@paddy8888]

Be the change.

[@patmackie3499]

My deepest condolences to all those who lost family loved ones friends..🙏🖤

[@dianeandrews7873]

Sovsasm its heartbreaking. We had similar last December and it altered out topography. So hard to take but best wishes to you all.

[@sniffrat3646]

I have been to the beautiful city of Valencia and it is unthinkable that such a tragedy has happened. Estoy pensando en vosotros, saludos desde inglaterra ❤

[@jkostka8177]

Geoengineering!! Wake up!

[@ebillie1181]

So, sad to hear this about your beautiful country. Nuestras oraciones estan contigo. Dios los bendiga y mantenganse a salvo. 🙏🙏

[@mariapilarme]

It’s the gota fria it happens every year at this time. My condolences to the families of the victims.

[@yonettekelly2406]

People in government of countries has the responsibility to make sure infrastructures are properly put in place to protect the citizens of its countries. It is the citizens who voted these leaders in government and it's the citizens who pays taxes to get proper infrastructures done. Why these leaders don't do their job? Is the question

[@RealSalica]

So sad ...

[@happinesschidera2293]

You work for 40yrs to have $1M in your retirement, meanwhile some people are putting just $10K in a meme coin from just a few months ago and now they are multimillionaires.

[@StaceyRose-e5d]

imagine invsting in Btcoin earlier.... You could have been a multi millionaire precently

[@MikeDrew-zo4kk]

Assets that can make you rich FX Btcoin Stocks Gold Real estate

[@johntyler7024]

I want to compliment you, you have said it all. I am a little business owner and I really want to expand my business to the next level by making myself an investor but I really don't know how to go about it..

[@ArroyoJames]

You're right but a lot of people remain poor due to ignorance

[@MichealEdson]

Not because of ignorance, it's because of the high rate of unprofessionalism in the cypto market

[@April-ks8xz]

Is there tons of lithium in the ground? Just asking because of NC

[@scottykilmer3920]

John connor: it is time

[@mizukowa]

The entire city destroyed bridges and roads hundreds of thousands of cars and houses

[@vikasb1400]

UNRWA should recal staff from Jihadi territory and relocate them to Valencia Spain

[@jimmyconway8025]

Jeep dreaming! They don't actually help people in need. All by design

[@psychoticbob]

The rain in Spain falls mainly on Valencia? That doesn't rhyme....

[@christinaphillips5933]

Were the dams open?? 😢 God has nothing to do with this !!

[@Rave-agent]

Not HAARP, Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai.

[@logiclust]

‘What triggered the floods/‘ seriously? Water. It was water, and lots of it

[@JonUbick]

So sad, Valencia has a huge floodplain - guess needs an update

[@roberto8998]

Dammen weg gesloopt door de regering!!! Zij zijn de schuldige

[@martijnstam6186]

I live in downtown Valencia and strangely enough we didn't have any meaningful rain nor flooding. These events are very local.

[@volkerengels5298]

Flooding doesn't happen uphill ....is a bit trivial, no? Define 'very local'

[@martijnstam6186]

@@volkerengels5298 We didn't have any local rain when the event occurred.

[@volkerengels5298]

@@martijnstam6186 "we" - I consider is a small area? My "we" is.... I'm not just kidding - downplaying climate change risks is a bad habit of this society. It doesn't pay - it costs.

[@martijnstam6186]

@@volkerengels5298 These rains are common in late summer and flood canals.

[@volkerengels5298]

@@martijnstam6186 every year roughly 100 ppl die in valencia area due to flooding. We all know... :))

[@Mercalons]

Its 102 dead so far already

[@Shelleysnail]

Jesus.

[@teinspringz]

If they had more heavy EV's then they wouldn't be swept away as easily as those lighter combustion cars, but then they'd have to face potential hazard of rusting and shorting EV batteries...

[@solomongrundy3411]

Spain splashiin chaos. Unlike their chaos on the planet

[@dominiquebourjaccollier6788]

This is a nightmare ! Why ?

[@roberto8998]

Elite

[@mattseaman5662]

Google 'la gota fría' or 'DANA'. This is an autumnal occurrence here in Spain, but this is clearly more extreme. I live in Seville Spain and it has been raining non-stop for the past week. The ground is dry, hence flash floods

[@НадеждаКлимчук-г7ю]

Испания помогла вооружением, миллиарды спонсировала украине против России. Вот только о себе забыла. Соболезнование простым людям.

[@henriettemcpartlin8640]

Hmmm I seen that backdrop pix under AI generated photos. I pray for safety for the inhabitants. Awful!!!

[@tankalama9361]

God saved everything everyone 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@gajaholeng440]

dangerous deathly

[@bjohnson1085]

My God please bless the rescue & aid workers and ALL those who they are helping, lift them up to you for safety, security, healing, support, abundance of food & shelter, love, patience & respect. In Jesus name, Amen.🙏

[@leifantonsen8203]

HARPE

[@culgan86]

I mean nobody is doing anything about climate change. It progressively gets worse

[@hetedeleambacht6608]

yes, my country likes to pretend nothing serious is really happening. Belgium

[@mradziko]

How are those warning apps called?

[@kingjustice1831]

Is this karma?

[@stephenrichards5386]

It's a similar effect as lake effect snow south of the great lakes only this is a tropical deep atmospheric cyclone unable to move on ss it usually would because of a blocking anticyclone to the east. The Spanish have their own word for these storms.

[@bobekvelky4129]

sad

[@JoHussein-ky9oj]

Good people, but the sins of the few destroyed anything and everything. Noahs floods. We pray for U to Almighty God of Abraham, Jesus Moses and Muhammad helps U lot millions times more inshallah

[@fernandoleanme5928]

The 57 storm was worse. This video exaggerates, most of the Valencia autonomous region is fine. The Gota Fria storms have been taking place forever, there were warnings, the intense rain was mostly in hilly or mountainous areas, where little towns are built in narrow valleys. And please stop the climate change baloney, these storms are part of life.

[@LevRainheart]

Disasters-affected climate change keep happening while more and more people drive electric vehicles. Why? Shouldn't they stop as we change our fossil fueled-cars with those "environmental friendly" ones? 🙄

[@leedennett3036]

Geoengineering, thats wot

[@stefanadamek367]

Nature's wake-up call to pull ourselves together and solve the climate crisis!

[@jasonthompson514]

Nature and climate are two different things

[@rasheedkarimi-fb1ki]

Oh Señor de los mundos, protege a nuestros queridos hermanos españoles y ellos están preocupados por la inundación. Por favor protégelos a todos en el desastre. Todos oramos por los musulmanes paquistaníes.🇵🇰

[@seanwilliams3634]

Valencia's right-wing government is just as much to blame, the national weather organization gave a 8am emergency warning, Valencia gov gave a 1pm few word warning AFTER the rains and they closed the emergency department in Valencia and I quote we don't believe in climate change. The PP party shame on you.

[@margaretdavis8113]

🙏

[@NikitaAristoktratez]

Karma

[@lizmonk1115]

Worsen due to geo-engineering 🤔

[@DeltaForce86]

GEOENGINEERING WEATHER WARFARE

[@LiveByDesign]

🥺

[@rosebloem2474]

Tomorro there is more rainfall coming

[@hetedeleambacht6608]

yes indeed.

[@Koba_26]

😢

[@raymondsullivan7230]

Spain's having a lot of flooding and will continue to do so Raymond Paul Sullivan III me myself and I and him RPS 111 time to move on

[@29979ms]

It shows great ignorance and hypocrisy to say that the Dana has been the cause of the personal and material damage suffered. The damage has been caused by the absolute lack of intelligence of the governments. Decade after decade, the space of the rivers has been reduced, building houses, infrastructures and cultivation areas. These areas must always be left free so that when the river rises, there is somewhere for the water to flow. The Ministry of Public Works and engineers have built roads without pillars, strangling areas of the rivers that are flooded, causing them to overflow when they rise. So this damage, like that in Germany and like those that will often occur, is the work of man. Intelligence is a fallacy, I don't say it, but the damage caused by the model that the governments develop. All the damage must be fully replaced by the governments, since it is the urban planning plans, the urban planners, the infrastructures and the engineers, and the politicians who allow the rivers to be strangled, causing the severity of this damage. So as a means of communication, interview experts in hydrography, engineering and emergencies. I find it ironic to hear politicians saying that they will control the acceleration of climate change only by not poisoning the atmosphere. First, what has been done and is being done has created an imbalance that will extend for centuries. Second, the industrial economic model must slow down by 2/3. Third, the liberal economic model that drags us down and indoctrinates us from schools is in itself like a Hopenheimer, a destroyer of planets. Whatever has to happen will happen. Peace

[@kristinaburton1916]

Geo engineering weather modification and control

[@Neverforget133]

Bull gates and his weather manipulation

[@fa8601]

🕊🫶🕊

[@angloaust1575]

Nature unbalanced by pollution

[@scillyautomatic]

Nah. This has always happened. That's why they call it a once in a lifetime storm - not a "never before happened" storm.

[@marysylvie2012]

God's wrath over the earth.

[@peterkiburio8323]

The mother nature is restoring the earth into its original formation

[@roberto8998]

Onzin!

[@SheepofTheShepherd-nu3lz]

That Idol thems worships must angry

[@islammehmeov2334]

🇹🇷❤️‍🔥🇪🇦

[@Frank-dv3st]

Fridays for future🌈🌈🌈 Useless?

[@mithim99]

Capitalism is succeeding in destroying earth

[@kevfit4333]

The thing happened in the same area in 1957 and 1962. The 1962 flood claimed up to a thousand lives.

[@volkerengels5298]

not true

[@sailingmsmalachite1503]

1973 the same thing happened

[@volkerengels5298]

@@sailingmsmalachite1503 Extreme events happens now and then - by def! With climate change they get a bit worse - and much more frequent. Just remember floodings in Europe this year alone.... The OP exaggerated death tolls like crazy, btw

[@sailingmsmalachite1503]

@@volkerengels5298 just like the storm in ibiza on the 14/08/2024 where all the boat in formentera ended on the rocks No one had a clue it was coming And the same thing in Corsica as well

[@mattseaman5662]

Google 'la gota fría' or 'DANA'. This is an autumnal occurrence here in Spain, but this is clearly more extreme, though. I live in Seville, Spain, and it has been raining non-stop for the past week. The ground is dry, hence flash floods

[@jimmyconway8025]

Was triggered by Taylor swift jet 🐑

[@UltraTrev]

those who curse israel shall themselves be cursed