Spanish floods kill 95 as year of rain falls in a day in Valencia

GBR48Today 02:51 am JST

We are getting more droughts and more floods. If we develop resilient infrastructure, we can deal with this. We can harvest the flood water to get us through the droughts. Now go ask the politicians why they are not doing this. It's not like they didn't know it was going to happen. Sympathy and compensation are not enough each time it happens is not a solution.

Flood water is heavily contaminated. Not really possible to divert it into a reservoir, either. There are no easy solutions when you've turned mother nature against you.

We are getting more droughts and more floods. If we develop resilient infrastructure, we can deal with this. We can harvest the flood water to get us through the droughts. Now go ask the politicians why they are not doing this. It's not like they didn't know it was going to happen. Sympathy and compensation are not enough each time it happens is not a solution.

Doug

That sounds awful, hope they are all OK considering the circumstances

What an awful tragedy, always be cautious of Mother Nature.

I live 100Km from the disaster area and I have direct family in that area.

I spoke to my aunt last night and fortunately no one died, but they have been without electricity and drinking water in their house for 48 hours and their cell phone battery is dead. His car was dragged along with others. The muddy water came down so suddenly and out of nowhere just like a tsunami.

Together with another uncle of mine, we are preparing a family house where no one lives to rehouse them. At least so that they have the minimum essential supplies, which they do not have now. Although their house has not been damaged because they live on a 6th floor. But the elevator doesn't work, and they are very old people.

That is why they need to be rehoused.

This is a truly dreadful story regardless of the reasons why. More than 100 dead. Billions of damage. Homes and businesses were destroyed. it's not over.

Not surprisingly no one has claimed that this was a man-made event. The foolish people who would propagate such nonsense don't have the people's well-being in mind, they just want to promote their own delusional falsehoods.