Valencia region devastated by flash floods. Dozens dead.

violent bridge collapse here.

Europe gets hammered with these floods. Poor Poland a few weeks ago, and now this.

Is Six Flags Magic Mountain going to be okay?

Have British holiday makers been evacuated from Benidorm??

Did the oranges survive?

Up to 95 dead now. Videos showing bodies floating in the flood waters.

And there was no warning from the government until after the floods grew massive. Total failure.

Looks like the rain in Spain doesn't stay mainly in the plain after all...

Up to 161 dead. Unprecedented natural disaster in recent Spanish history.

It is absolutely devastating

Oh my goodness I had to turn it off. Immediately took me back to the Great Flood of 2016 in the Florida Parishes in Louisiana.

So many people I know lost *literally* EVERYTHING, and it happened so fucking QUICKLY, you just cannot imagine if you hadn't seen it with your own eyes.

My heart goes out to those poor, poor people and that landscape.😢 Lord, Lord, Lord.

Unbelievable.

R8 Wow.

R5 forgive me in advance if you already now the origin story - but I had looked it up before out of curiosity and was amused to see Valencia oranges were concocted by an American food scientist, and they needed a catchy, evocative name…

R10 here. If anyone can give a link to legitimate donations, my broke ass will definitely contribute. At this stage I think Valencia can use my $25 more than Harris/Walz.

R14, keep an eye on the Red Cross sites?

I understand the transportation is very limited in and out of Valencia (City) right now, with train access entirely cut off. Parts of the larger Valencian region got smacked even harder.

I happen to be traveling back to Spain right now. The flooding there has definitely altered how I’m doing things this time around, as I was going to head back to Valencia almost right after landing in Madrid. That’s obviously on hold now. It could be one of those situations where just having shorter term visitors show up only makes recovery worse. Who knows.

This is climate change

Death toll up to 205. Huge social and political controversy in Spain right now about the lack of a warning from the provincial government before the storm and the abscence of aid from the national government after the storm.

Many of the suburbs are covered in mud.

What has the Royal family said? Has King Felipe made any statements yet?

Oh man. I've been to Valencia a few times and absolutely love it there.

So sad.

OP likes to reply to herself

R22 is a cunt!

Valencia is a whore’s name.

Reports are saying 1900 people missing.... It is absolutely devastating. Regional alarms did not go off until it was way too late.

I was curious as to what flooded. I found this map about the very old Valencia town. It had irrigation canals and small rivers all over it. Many canals and streams and even the river Tula are covered, filled in, or rerouted in modern Valencia.

I used to have an apartment in Alicante province so I follow the weather there. A week ago I saw reports of a gota fria coming and remembered we had one a few years ago where flooding like this just missed our street. If I was there I would have sandbagged my property and gotten the fuck out of there. Blaming the provincial government for lack of warning sounds like you weren’t paying attention. Que lastima.

Acojonante!

2000+ year-old dam built during Augustus's reign saved Zaragosa from the same fate as Valencia before bursting.

"2000+ year-old dam built during Augustus's reign saved Zaragosa from the same fate as Valencia before bursting."

I don't understand your sentence. Did this dam in Zaragoza fail?

One years amount of rain fell in one day. Yet some people still deny climate change.

Wtf happened? Why did they get no warnings? In my country we get warnings if there's dangerous weather on the way, we have plenty of time to evacuate if needed. I don't understand why the warning system collapsed. Why was it so difficult to warn people in time? By the time they got the warning it was already too late as the flooding had already started.

The local head of government dismissed the storm as inconsequential and said it would soon pass. The government can best be described as lethargic in most times but now it is really showing.

King Felipe VI of Spain has faced angry protesters while visiting the Valencia region

Blessings of EU mismanagement and monocultures. The poor people.

Daniel Lacalle @dlacalle_IA 21m Spain flood.

"Misinformation The BBC is lying in this headline."

Anger of crowd was directed to the politicians, especially PM Sánchez, who fled the scene. Video below.

The King and Queen stayed and comforted the crowd. Vídeo below.

@BBC should change the story. It is insulting"

I'm an old softy... I found the images of the King and Queen embracing people very moving.

I watched it live on BBC News and people were throwing "objects" at him (they looked like rocks or bricks).

It looked seriously nasty and I was wondering why they didn't pull him out of there. Can you imagine if people started throwing things at a President in the US? Or the King in the UK? The protection officers would be straight in there. This was a horribly mismanaged situation.

I understand why Felipe was there and what he wanted to achieve but it looked terribly dangerous for him at one point.

I'm not sure any knew SO much rain would fall. It was 20 inches in 8 hours in some places. That's freakish, worse than most hurricanes. And in a normally dry part of the world.

Letizia and Felipe were met with jeers and mud pies after their arrival in Valencia…