Question for my American and Canadian leftist friends! #PleaseBoost #Organize #Rightwing #Leftwing #centrism

In Spain, the Valencian regional government, a coalition of the right-wing People’s Party and "ultras” Vox took power in the regional and many municipal governments last year.

Soon after, like the #Project2025 proposal to defund/privatize the NOAA and FEMA, the Valencian government eliminated the UVAE - an emergency response unit to deal with fire and flooding disasters in the region. (mundiario.com/articulo/politic…)

This weekend, after the catastrophic flooding killed over 200 and counting with billions in damage to infrastructure and business and people's lives, there are massive protests in #Valencia demanding the resignation of the government.

What will you do to prevent Trump and MAGA Republicans from endangering you? And Canadians? You can bet this is in Poillievre, Smith, Rustad, Moe, and Ford’s playbook as well.

Will you orgainize and respond before, or after, disaster strikes?

These rightwing neo-liberal and fascist forces, and the centrists who coddle them, don't care about you. They only care about redirecting the public purse from public service to their own personal and commercial interests.

What will you do to prevent that from happening?

#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Protest #SPain #USPoli #MAGA #Trump

Over 200 dead so far in #Valencia from #ClimateDisaster floods. Thousands displaced and disrupted. Towns and communities are cut off. Thousands are in need of basic supplies. The video is from Chiva (Xiva) where 490mm (20in) of rain fell in 8 hours, creating the incredible torrents.

You can donate to the Red Cross of Spain - Cruz Roja Española

Informaion here: www2.cruzroja.es/colabora/haz-…

@Grahunt has an excellent blog with some more details about what happened. valencia-property.com/new/2024…

1. If you think #valencia is out of the woods, think again. The cut-off low that pulls humid air from over the meditteranean across the mountains north of Valencia is not done yet. In the coming 2 days the @kachelmannwetter multimodel ensemble predicts up to 177 mm of extra rain in the region of #castellon .

Not only #Spain but the entire #EU will have to have a difficult conversation on how we'll prepare us for #weather #disaster amplified by #ClimateChange

A thread.

A mindblowing set of images of what the flood in #Valencia looks like from space - images of the same region from 8 and 30 October (I've been to the area, this is scary):

▶️ esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/…

image credit: USGS, processed by #ESA
images from the US Landsat-8 satellite

At least 70 people have died in the region. More are missing and expected perished.

The government has announced 3 days of mourning.

elpais.com/espana/2024-10-29/l…

#ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #valencia #españa

Última hora de la dana, en directo | Al menos 95 muertos y decenas de desaparecidos en la peor gota fría del siglo en España

Siga la última hora del temporal en España

^{El Pais}

Just went and geolocated this picture for an after climate-disaster/before climate-disaster look on Google Maps. Map link below, the main highway V-30, that runs around the south side of the City of Valencia alonside the, often dry, riverbed of the Turia river. #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #valencia #españa #valencia #cambioclimatico #climático

maps.app.goo.gl/iuWwS55MMrmyyi…
@Jade
@danneau

#ClimateDiary Everything is fine, everything is normal. Ignore, ignore, ignore.

Scores feared dead after torrential rain and floods in Spain. Officials say at least 51 people have died in south and east of country but death toll is expected to rise.#Spain #Valencia #Floods

theguardian.com/world/2024/oct…

Devastating scenes of piled-up cars in #Valencia, #Spain today after yesterday’s historic flooding. A year’s worth of rain fell in a few hours with a peak of 500mm.

#weather #wx #ClimateChange