Storm in Valencia
- Thread starter graser
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It's the worst one ever and causing so many problems.
graser
Well-known member
... and it won't be the last.
Anyone who still denies climate change is too blind to see.
Hasch
learning and laughing
Imo more like: they don't want to acknowledge it (denial).
Maybe because otherwise they would feel some responsibility for keeping up with the "old" ways of living and wasting resources.
Its heart warming to hear people notice 
The stuff i hear from my many Spanish friends, and the fact that the first i knew about this was from CNN, not swe-news, made me realize that this one was a big one, most people ive talked to have friends or aquaintses affected in some way. Its at least 155 dead and counting, looks like at least 300, there are still many missing. Trailer trucks pulled away by waters turning main streets into rapids, not rivers. People going downstairs to examine their first floor which was flooded to the ceiling the nigh before only to find a random dead guy in their house living room. No power. Just a huge mess. The rainfall of an entire year in less than an hour, 12"/300 mm rain!
The stuff i hear from my many Spanish friends, and the fact that the first i knew about this was from CNN, not swe-news, made me realize that this one was a big one, most people ive talked to have friends or aquaintses affected in some way. Its at least 155 dead and counting, looks like at least 300, there are still many missing. Trailer trucks pulled away by waters turning main streets into rapids, not rivers. People going downstairs to examine their first floor which was flooded to the ceiling the nigh before only to find a random dead guy in their house living room. No power. Just a huge mess. The rainfall of an entire year in less than an hour, 12"/300 mm rain!
It reminds me a bit of tragedies from the past in my home country; things so big that everyone knows of someone with either direct affectation or lost friends or family. Thailand tsunami struck incredibly hard here, very surprising but a lot of swedes where holidaing or with properties there. Hopes and prayers always sounds like a platitude for me, mis simpatias y animos hacia ti y tus querridos y tod@s afectados
Behind every shadow theres a Great Light.
Edit: its always hard to see these things from afar, my flat in bcn had some water damage/flooding during Gloria in -20; a bit worried and hope everything is fine there aswell...
