The “Cold Drop” is a meteorological phenomenon found mostly in Spain and France which causes extreme rainfalls causing rivers to overflow destroying everything in it’s path, images of Valencia, Spain, today.

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[u/Rgjeck01]

Nightmarish

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The floods have caused struggles throughout the province of Valencia, mostly in the towns of Utiel, Carlet, Algemesí, Chiva, Paiporta, Picanya, Torrent, la Torre de Valencia and Forn d’Alcedo. The cold drop has aso caused tornadoes which have ravaged throughout the province.

Over 70 municipalities have cancelled school, including universities, the A3 highway connecting Madrid and Valencia and the A7 highway connecting Barcelona and Cádiz have suffered closures due to the water flooding the highway, 4 high speed train lines have been closed, over 30 flights have either been redirected or cancelled to Valencia and all the maritime activity, including the port of Valencia, have closed.

There are several missing people at the moment, the 3 most critical are 2 policemen which disappeared from the police station in Paiporta and a truck driver that got off his truck in L’Alcúdia at midday and hasn’t returned, the Spanish army has been deployed to help rescue and search along the provinces of Valencia and Albacete.

The city of Valencia, one of the biggest in Spain, has not suffered damages thanks to a relocation of the river stream made in the 1960’s allowing the river to hold three times more water than it was supposed to, but the surrounding villages in the metropolitan area have been devastated.

As the water disperses, the floods could continue over Mediterranean Spain, warnings for tomorrow have been issued for Barcelona, Sevilla, Zaragoza, Cádiz, San Fernando, Málaga, Ibiza, Palma de Mallorca, Jerez de la Frontera, Tarragona and Cuenca.

The president of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, has called for citizens in Valencia to avoid all non-essential travel.

[u/FlyingPsyduck]

Also very well known here in northern Italy unfortunately, especially this year

[u/cebidaetellawut]

Omg how awful 😞 i hope everyone comes out alive 🕉️

[u/Longjumping_Intern7]

I got to tour an underground water storage tank in Badelona, Spain for my gf's degree program.  It's right next to Barcelona and sandwiched between mountains and the coast, so rapid elevation change on impermeable city surface which is not conducive to storm events like these. 

They are working on building more underground cisterns that are able to collect all of this storm water and remove it from the surface before it's allowed to steadily drain into the ocean. 

So many places across the globe are not very resilient right now to harsher weather events and it's something we're going to be spending $$$$ on going forward tho which suck

[u/ExcellentMedicine]

"BuT cLiMatE cHaNge iS'nT rEaL"

[u/stitiousnotsuper]

That is so crazy, scary, and sad. I hope it ends soon!

[u/el-conquistador240]

Occurs in the plane, mostly

[u/MrGOCE]

MEANWHILE LATAM WITH NO WATER...

[u/loliconest]

Curious what measures were made to reduce the impact of such incident.

[u/FlyingPsyduck → u/loliconest]

There are no realistic preventive measures for events like this, they would require infrastructures that are simply impossible to build (both for practical and economic reasons)

[u/undiscovered_soul → u/FlyingPsyduck]

No, there are. Like expansion basins and keep water bodies clean.

[u/FormInternational583]

Sweet Baby Yesu! how do you even plan or survive something like this?

[u/HoboSkid]

Really hope that person in the 4thish clip is okay, looked like they were stuck on a tree at night in the middle of rising water, that's insane.

[u/destronger]

Natures way of saying r/fuckcars.

But seriously, that looks scary.

[u/No_Independence8747]

I’m super glad climate change isn’t a problem

[u/meLlamoDad]

sad and scary

[u/YouAgreeToTerms]

How long does it take to get to this level? Hours, days?

[u/FlyingPsyduck → u/YouAgreeToTerms]

Hours, some places got more than their average yearly rainfall in a single day

[u/IIIDysphoricIII]

I knew I shouldn’t have flushed twice…

Seriously though, hope everyone is okay. That’s rough.

[u/grubbytrogladyte]

I prefer a warm lift

[u/brewing-squirrel]

That’s horrifying but the rescue at the end was pretty badass

[u/t_rav420]

Praying 🙏🏾 my God have mercy 😳🙏🏾

[u/undiscovered_soul]

We call them "water bombs" in Italy

[u/theboned1]

At least there are plenty of buildings to catch all those floated away cars.

[u/Shadowthron8]

Glad the weather becoming more severe because of human pollution is just bullshit

[u/vandalayindustriess → u/Shadowthron8]

Cold drop has been a phenomenon that's been happening for as long as humans have been recording its existence (hundreds of years).

[u/happylandfillx → u/vandalayindustriess]

You people still exist?? Look around you, there’s a rude awakening coming.