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 @vicgrinberg wow! I was there on the 8th! The big flooded area is the Albufera national park around the lagoon which is not built up and acts exactly as it should as a flood plain. It could have been a lot worse if that area hadn't been a protected nature reserve! 4 comments
@vicgrinberg if you zoom on the last bends in river Turia, you will see small patches of blue just south of it. This is where most of the casualties and damage happened: those are smaller rivers that go through built up areas and have nowhere to go but the streets when they break their banks. 2/2 @brunogirin @vicgrinberg Wasn't Albufera recovering from nasty pollution from the nearby car plant in Almussafes? Last time I was there (May 2024) we did a guided boat tour through Albufera and we were advised not to touch the water. @jeremy @vicgrinberg I don't know. Last time I went to the Albufera was 2 years ago so your info is more recent than mine. That said, considering the amount of water that just went into the lagoon, whatever chemical composition it had last week it's probably very different now. |
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@vicgrinberg additional information about what you see in this picture: the blue line on top that flows into the sea is river Turia. It used to go through the centre of Valencia and its course was diverted after the deadly flood of 1957. This time round, it broke its banks but the damage was limited to the motorway and the fields alongside it: the diversion did its job and probably saved 1000s of lives.
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