Spain's Climate Floods Tragedy in Pictures
• Nov 10, 2024, 9:59 AM
15 min de lecture
Survivors say that 15 minutes was all it took for a drainage canal that was crucial in the disaster to go from empty to overflowing. Abutting homes channelled the rushing water to expand its shockwave.
Regional authorities failed to alert people in time, and in some places there wasn't even rain to put people on guard, magnifying the chaos.
In the aftermath, streets look like they have been blasted back to the Medieval period, covered by layers of mud that obscured any glimpse of pavement or cobblestone.
Meanwhile, the search goes on for the missing.
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