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.

jimkennedy

@chris @Jade @danneau Turia river at València is all kinds of interesting. Prior to the 60s it ran through the city centre but was diverted around the south (tracking the V30 as you've seen) because of how prone it was to flooding. The old channel is now a most amazing urban park (in green on this map) with the science museum, aquarium, etc.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@DBG3D Muchas gracias!

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@jimkennedy @Jade @danneau yes!! I've walked most of the length of the diverted part in the centre of the City. It's a beautiful space. It's obvious today that the diversion just shifted the destruction southward to smaller towns. I wonder what work might be done to try to account for these events. It's hard to imagine that there is an engineering solution here.

jimkennedy

@chris @Jade @danneau I guess in some respects this *is* the engineering solution. Imagine if this river hadn't been diverted...

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

I geolocated the street where the cars are piled up to here:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/LMEMWszXFfZidGfs6

Here is a before and after, in nearly the exact same perspective.
@Jade @danneau

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@jimkennedy @Jade @danneau Yes. Exactly.

GhostOnTheHalfShell

@chris

You know, the cities didn't have so many cars in them didn't have so much concrete and asphalt, instead were green, we have fewer floods. If the surrounding ecology had been restored, you have fewer floods.

Is the farm in every country grew multiple crops in careful way they could eliminate all dependence on hydrocarbons, they produce much more food per unit land than big commercial farms, and you would have fewer floods.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@GhostOnTheHalfShell indeed

MooMoo the Cat

@chris @Jade @danneau Wow. That is an insane amount of water in such a short period of time.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@flowerpot sure is

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

At least 95 dead in Spain so far.

Al menos 95 muertos en la peor DANA del siglo en España

El ministro de Política Territorial ha elevado la cifra a 92 fallecidos en la Comunitat Valenciana, a los que se suman otros tres en el resto del territorio, y no ha descartado que aumente el balance porque todavía hay muchos desaparecidos

elDiario.es (www.eldiario.es)

Kevin Russell

@chris @josie_osborne

ALARMS RINGING, LISTEN.

We must stop adding carbon dioxide to our air. It holds heat like a rolled window in a car on a sunny day.

Stop burning carbon, oil, gas, biofuel, coal. By building engines that don't use carbon. By generating electricity with solar, with wind.

Build it all now. Just build carbons replacement. Build it all now.

We have build 1/4 of it.

FASTER.

NOW.

#climate

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

The town of Chiva, about 50km upland to the east of the City of Valencia is where they recorded the historic nearly 500mm of rain. There are mountains about 50-100km inland of the entire Spanish coast, so the rain accumulates into the river valleys there and floods to the coast.

Mike. 🩼🇨🇦

@chris that is insane...those cars piled up like falling dominoes just blows my mind...

Camerondotca

@chris @Jade @danneau we were there last summer. My god, what a fucking mess.

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.