Flooding in Valencia (Spain)

Nature can sometimes be frightening. Hoping all Steamgifters and their loved ones in Valencia are safe!

Mis mejores deseos a los valencianos 🧡

I saw a photo of some of the cars swept up into an enormous pile from the water, and the mud slides. I hope many of those missing and unconfirmed are just out of contact and needing working phone or something. The shifting storms have been brutal.

I'm portuguese and i work remotely on a spanish company, the HQ is there so we're concerned about of some of our colleagues. Some of my colleagues live in Spain near me (I live right in the border) and they are trying to get some cars and transport food, clothing and other kind of products who might help people in there. As I said in another post, i'm a single mom of 2 and my wage is very low but my heart can't handle that there's such amount of destruction in there, people who lost everything and loved ones so i decided to help them aswell, sending some stuff, not much, but at least is something and something + something will turn into something bigger <3 I really hope they get all the help they needed... as many people say, the spanish government isn't doing much unfortunately so the "people is helping the people" =(

Prayer ascending to heaven. 😥😥😥

That the regional government didn't trigger the alarms till the evening reminds me so much of the Ahrtal flood we had in Germany in 2021.

Irresponsible that we have an increased chance for such events to happens thanks to global warming, yet it requires such tragedies for administrations to get serious and prepare better.

I'm from Spain, not from Valencia (I live in the northwest) and watching all this situation it is infurating. The government being completetly useless towards an emergency and being slow and unefective.

And because we have a corruption in the roots of our politics, there won't be any culprits and they will blame others for their failures, even if those fails were hundred of deaths. I can't afford travel there to Valencia to help manually to clean, but I hope the situations get better, but knowing the actual information the number of deaths will increase, too many people that were probably dragged by cars that hasn't been discovered yet... 😢

Lighthearted story, no one died: over the past ~10 months some services of our project have been moved to Barcelona Supercomputing Center. It was a significant effort, finished about a month ago - which was important as decommissioning the old site was past due already and they only kept it running for us. Now BSC is also flooded, the services are down, while the old environment physically doesn't exist any more.

The latest natural disasters are truly worrying, both for those that have been affected and for the direction our planet is heading... :(
Such a difficult situation, my heart goes out to all those affected.

Truly devastating! I feel for my spanish comrades. Hope the situation gets better soon.
And please take care of nature everywhere you go, as anything small can turn into something big. Unfortunately we can't count on the governments to take the lead.