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The flash flood killed more than 220 people in the Valencia region, many of them caught in their cars, or on the ground floors of buildings when the tsunami-like waters hit.
The Sedaví area of Valencia is almost unrecognizable in these images from before and after the flash floods. The floodwaters flipped cars on their sides, inundated highways , cut off main roads ...
Tropical storms are one of Arizona's main sources of rainfall, as they infuse the monsoon over the southwestern United States with moisture, producing large-scale floods in occasions. [5] However, all of the storms that have impacted Arizona have formed in the latter parts of the Pacific hurricane season , and only storm remnants have affected ...
The floods, triggered by an intense weather system known as Dana, have shocked the community that is home to around 25,000 people. Dani, a factory worker, said: “We have been abandoned. We are ...
Disastrous floods have been reported throughout the history of Valencia, from the 14th century up to the contemporary period. [5] The 1957 Valencia flood was caused by a three-day cold drop (Spanish: gota fría) (which usually leads to heavy autumn rains in Spain and France); it overflowed the banks of the Túria river and devastated the city of Valencia.
Spain’s Mediterranean coast is used to autumn storms that can cause flooding, but this episode was the most powerful flash flood event in recent memory. Older people in Paiporta, ground zero of the tragedy, claim that Tuesday’s floods were three times as bad as those of 1957, which caused at least 81 deaths and were the worst in the history ...
The flash floods also surpassed the flood that swept away a campsite along the Gallego river in Biescas, in the northeast, killing 87 people, in August 1996. What has the state response been? Management of the crisis, classified as level two on a scale of three by the Valencian government, is in the hands of the regional authorities, who can ...
The talks started a few weeks after torrential rains caused floods in October that killed over 220 people in commuter towns to the east of Valencia. ... said he expected the Valencia flood to be a ...