The Spanish floods have now arrived at my daughters' property in Spain

Manatee said:
In 1957 I was on a US Navy ship in Majorca and we were ordered to go to Valencia and render aid to victims of flooding. Half way there that order was canceled, and we changed course to Gibraltar. Often wondered is the Valencia area subject to flooding often?
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Well the Valencia province is quite large.. at approx 25,000 square kilometres.. I have a home in the south of the Province... about 200km from Valencia City... the area is majorly Arid... although there are large salt lakes in the south and the general area in the south which contains Alicante and Elche.. and may small towns and villages is flat the North of Valencia is mountainous ...but still relatively dry...

November tends to be rainy and if there's going to be a Gota Fria it usually happens then, I have experienced only 1 GF while living there, and the story is they occur once every 7 years ... this recent flooding is very rare.. and is being blamed on Spain following Brussels orders to remove Dams.. There has been uproar, and protestors even tried attack the King of Spain as he surveyed the damage last week, demanding he gets something done..

Gibralter as you must know is unique in that it's British owned on the Southern tip of the Iberian peninsular.. in Cadiz, Andalucia..

Andalucia covers the Costa del sol, the rich mans playground of Europe., and is where Malaga is situated and the mountains where my daughters' land is...

To get to Valencia city from Gibralter , is about 750 km's......from Majorca to Valenica is approx 350 km's...
 
I'm pretty resigned to the fact that with Global Warming just about any area is subject to amped-up natural disasters. I mentioned in an earlier thread that we have visited the mountains of Western North Carolina many times and were actually considering moving there to escape the summer heat in Dallas. No more.

I also wonder about what the tremendous number of expats that have moved to Portugal may face eventually. There's just no getting away from it lately.
 

seadoug said:
I'm pretty resigned to the fact that with Global Warming just about any area is subject to amped-up natural disasters. I mentioned in an earlier thread that we have visited the mountains of Western North Carolina many times and were actually considering moving there to escape the summer heat in Dallas. No more.

I also wonder about what the tremendous number of expats that have moved to Portugal may face eventually. There's just no getting away from it lately.
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Spain also has had for the last 30 years a massive amount of ExPats living there..
 
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