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.

Camerondotca

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

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@MikeImBack ya, there are a few that are ripped up and the catenary is messed up, but I'm sure they're getting a handle on it. Thankfully the weather has passed. All rail service is stopped until Monday it looks like.

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@camerondotca or “really old thing should be torn down to make way for new thing”

Nicole Parsons

@chris

#KochNetwork spent a lot of money on climate denying Republicans and a corrupt Supreme Court willing to kneecap the EPA.

This is the result. Billions in damages, pennies in recompense.
https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/koch-industries-inc-oil-spills-settlement

https://theintercept.com/2022/06/30/supreme-court-epa-climate-charles-koch/

Charles Koch has set aside $5 billion to finish what he started.

Ending Democracy. Frying the planet.

Embedding public corruption everywhere.
https://popular.info/p/charles-kochs-5-billion-tax-loophole

Kat O’Brien

@chris it is devastating to see this, especially having lived 1 1/2 years in Valencia.
It was nearby small towns that were hit hardest, from what I understand.

Rico

@chris I live about a mile down from the Encino reservoir in LA’s San Fernando Valley. When I say “down”, I mean down the hill. I hope this never happens here. It must’ve taken a massive downhill overflow of water to drag all those cars that way.

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@obrien_kat sounds like it. I would like to live in Valencia one day, so this hurts.

John Burns

@chris

For those in U.S.

That's very close to 20 inches of rain.

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@rick1960 sounds like there were fires about 10 years ago in the foothills to the East where the rains were strongest yesterday. It may have contributed to the incredible speed of the flood.

Dave Tapley

@JohnJBurnsIII @chris I wonder if there is anything like NOAA Atlas 14 for the EU / Spain?

I'm starting to think recurrence interval would be a good way to express, uh, 'unprecedentedness', without having to convert metric/US systems...

Nilsk

@chris
Please, provide sources. We want to be able to trust the photos.

dani

@chris Hi Chris! Just a small correction, the name of the town is Sedavi. Great thread!

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@dave @JohnJBurnsIII I am sure there is but I'm not familiar with how to get to the information.

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@ilsk see my replies in the thread, all the news articles with the original photos are there.

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@danigjz ah! Thank you. Sorry about the typo.

Carolyn

@chris Those picturesque European cities with narrow, paved roads, are particularly great at funnelling water through instead of away from things. Pretty scary.

ArchaeoIain

@chris @Jade @danneau
Bear in mind that that dry course of the River Turia was artificially created to prevent massive floods burying the city. It was being built when I was working there in the early 1970s.

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@CStamp the irony is there is an 4 lane highway on either side the river that flooded. Narrow and wide, the river takes all!

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@ArchaeoIain I learned this today! Thank you! There are a few places in the world that have tried to do this (Winnipeg, Canada is another). It generally just moves the problem elsewhere. I don't know if it is fair at all to say this outcome is better than what might have been if the river had not been rerouted. We'll never really know.

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“With every fraction of a degree of fossil fuel warming, the atmosphere can hold more moisture, leading to heavier bursts of rainfall,” said Dr Friederike Otto, from Imperial College London, who leads an international group of scientists who try to understand the role that warming plays in these type of events.
“No doubt about it, these explosive downpours were intensified by climate change.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c99ry7x925eo