Spain Floods - Part Deux

[Carl_VivaEspana]

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]

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

[vaud]

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]

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.]

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.

[hidetheelephants]

Jimbo. said:

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.

The fact they've monkeyed with the river won't have helped, but as you say no drainage system copes with 6 months rain in a few hours; land management upstream has a bigger effect, pasture, intensive agriculture in place of scrub or forest also reduces the ability of the land to absorb water and slow run-off, in other parts of Spain dams for irrigation etc. seem to have mitigated the worst of it.

[Whatever123]

Any long range Marbella forecasts for christmas period?

[119]

They need a bigger drain...

https://youtu.be/Rp2l6nFIsZA?si=uGlvNy2WZjySTt_g&a...