If you hate protesters blocking roads in the name of taking immediate #ClimateAction, you’re going to really hate how Climate Change itself blocks roads.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@MikeImBack There are scenes like that literally ALL OVER the streets of Valencia and its suburbs. The rail lines are also cut, but I suspect those will be quicker to come back than trying to get all these cars either to a wrecker or fixed! An incredible mess. And many many people missing. And this is just in the City itself. There are many small towns to the East and South of Valencia that have been devastated. Are now Inaccessible. Casualties, unknown.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@camerondotca I haven't seen any images from the central city itself yet. Not sure if the waters got into there or how they directed itself!

Camerondotca

@chris From memory, there is a dry river bed/now park that runs through the central city. That MIGHT function as a huge swale.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@camerondotca that was the original course of the Turia river. They diverted the river (in the 1970s?) around the South side of the City which is where all the damage that we are seeing pictures of is now. Not sure what's happened with the original river bed from these events.

Camerondotca

@chris Yeah, so it's sort of there as a (mostly) sunken park. But yeah, diversion is nice in principle, but water goes where it wants to go.

Justin Derrick

@chris Block roads? Flooding in Quebec earlier this year took out entire roads, parts of minor highways, and even managed to wash away a bridge and its foundations.

Camerondotca

@chris I kind of noticed that in some neighbourhoods it was less sunken than in others.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@JustinDerrick Yup, same in Spain as well yesterday. And here in BC in November 2021.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@camerondotca they have some key city infrastructure (zoo, science and art centre, etc) within that former river bed. Very interested to know how it is doing now!

Camerondotca

@chris yep. Wandered over the bridges and a bit into the parks.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@camerondotca it's a fantastic City.

Camerondotca

@chris we went to Barcelona, Madrid and there. All three were so different.

Daniele10

@chris Mother Earth wants to drown all the world's automobiles.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@camerondotca YES! Very different places. All with their own charms. My father was born in Valencia so it's got a special spot in my heart!

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@daniele_Hesse solid goal.

Camerondotca

@chris Traveling with our goth/trans kid their review was "pretty, and 50% less hate crimey than Barcelona downtown!" The mercato there is astounding and the silk trading building? The fluted columns! * swoon *

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@camerondotca ha! awesome. Yes, I have a picture from the market from 2003 as the lockscreen on my iPhone! Incredible. And the architecture is just amazing. Some of the Moorish building that has survived combined with later periods, wonderful stuff.

Camerondotca

@chris Yeah, that is something I like about places with older history: turn a corner and you're like "oh, Roman wall", turn another and it's like "ah, bar and restos!" and then another and it's like "oh, 15th century church!"

Mike. 🩼🇨🇦

@chris ya I was looking at the tracks thinking at least they seem OK. maybe have to send trains in with supplies or something...

Camerondotca

@chris here we tend to be like "the really old thing is over there behind a wall".