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- Dec 25, 2017
Didn't want to go to bed without posting this, as it's currently happening.
Valencia was hit by DANA, or a "cold drop"
1. The damage has been catastrophic.
2. The government is doing nothing, it's people organizing themselves to help.
3. The "Youths" are on the loose rioting and stealing from supplies.
The stream overflows and devastates the entire historic center of Letur (Albacete).
Woman is rescued by emergency services along with her two kittens (in her bag) and her dog
Senior center in Massanasa was completely flooded. Everybody is now safe.
Bridge in Paiporta (Valencia) Collapsed.
Full thread.
While the government is -until this moment- not sending the army, Bukele and Milei offered help.
"The King sends the Royal Guard and his security team to help in the affected regions by the DANA"
So many people got trapped in their houses and died trying to save their cars when the water was coming. Earlier, 60 people dead were reported. Last I checked, it was 150. But the people who are there are saying the number is much, much higher, hundreds of them, reason why media isn't allowed in to film. They're talking about 800 people missing. The local governments has set up the "Feria de Valencia", a mega stadium, to keep the bodies for autopsies.
Spainball, a meme group is so far the only group that's actually doing something. Only via Dms and Whatsapp, they've movilized the whole country and manage to gather around 50 (yes, fifty) tons of supplies from all over the country. They also got trailers, volunteers, money. People in Valencia are saying only their trucks are arriving, but so far, so little or nothing from the goverment.
One of many Spainball's containers.
"Not even 10% of what we have now".
People are, of course, mad. The few independent journalists going (and mainstream media are mad that they are going) are showing people screaming against the government and how they are rather giving money to "refugees" and putting them in luxury hotels while people are now sleeping in gyms and stadiums for two nights already after losing everything.
Of course (this after Spain decided to withdraw some logistic support for Israel)
Now, if you wonder why the situation is this bad...
Their current government, for the past years, has been removing all the dams to fight climate change. The ones that survived kept the situation for getting even worse. One of them, built by Franco, the other one, by the Romans.
I'll update with more info tomorrow. Please, keep Spain in your prayers if you can. If there is any way to donate money, I'll let you know.
Valencia was hit by DANA, or a "cold drop"
A cold drop[a] is a term used in Spain and France that has commonly come to refer to any high impact rainfall events occurring in the autumn along the Spanish Mediterranean coast or across France.[1] In Europe, cold drops belong to the characteristics of the Mediterranean climate.[2][3] It is also termed a cut-off low.
In the Spanish Mediterranean, these events are typically caused by upper-level low pressure systems strangled from the zonal (eastward) circulation displaying stationary or retrograde (westward) circulation. DANA is the Spanish initialism for Depresión Aislada en Niveles Altos.[4]
1. The damage has been catastrophic.
2. The government is doing nothing, it's people organizing themselves to help.
3. The "Youths" are on the loose rioting and stealing from supplies.
The stream overflows and devastates the entire historic center of Letur (Albacete).
Woman is rescued by emergency services along with her two kittens (in her bag) and her dog
Senior center in Massanasa was completely flooded. Everybody is now safe.
Bridge in Paiporta (Valencia) Collapsed.
Full thread.
While the government is -until this moment- not sending the army, Bukele and Milei offered help.
"The King sends the Royal Guard and his security team to help in the affected regions by the DANA"
So many people got trapped in their houses and died trying to save their cars when the water was coming. Earlier, 60 people dead were reported. Last I checked, it was 150. But the people who are there are saying the number is much, much higher, hundreds of them, reason why media isn't allowed in to film. They're talking about 800 people missing. The local governments has set up the "Feria de Valencia", a mega stadium, to keep the bodies for autopsies.
Spainball, a meme group is so far the only group that's actually doing something. Only via Dms and Whatsapp, they've movilized the whole country and manage to gather around 50 (yes, fifty) tons of supplies from all over the country. They also got trailers, volunteers, money. People in Valencia are saying only their trucks are arriving, but so far, so little or nothing from the goverment.
One of many Spainball's containers.
"Not even 10% of what we have now".
People are, of course, mad. The few independent journalists going (and mainstream media are mad that they are going) are showing people screaming against the government and how they are rather giving money to "refugees" and putting them in luxury hotels while people are now sleeping in gyms and stadiums for two nights already after losing everything.
Of course (this after Spain decided to withdraw some logistic support for Israel)
Now, if you wonder why the situation is this bad...
Their current government, for the past years, has been removing all the dams to fight climate change. The ones that survived kept the situation for getting even worse. One of them, built by Franco, the other one, by the Romans.
I'll update with more info tomorrow. Please, keep Spain in your prayers if you can. If there is any way to donate money, I'll let you know.
