No Food. No Water. Many homeless. More than 200 dead with many missing. Many remote areas still isolated. Military deployed.
More flood warnings still being issued.
Climate change is like fighting a war that never ends.
Late Thursday and Friday, rains spread to other southern regions. Heavy rain fell overnight in Andalusia, with the western province of Huelva the worst hit. Residents were out celebrating Halloween when sheets of rain began to fall, local news media reported. The authorities urged people to stay home, and avoid celebrating All Saints Day on Friday, which is usually done by visiting a cemetery or church, warning of the risk of flooding.
“This Friday the most complicated situation will be in the southwest of the peninsula,” Rubén del Campo, spokesman for the national meteorological agency, said. “The instability will continue on Saturday.”
This, “Climate change is like fighting a war that never ends.”
It never ends, against an opponent who doesn’t know we exist, with whom we can’t “make a deal”, to whom it is not even possible to surrender so the worst of the destruction will stop
And on my TV news last night, in the midst of a series of clips about the typhoon in Taiwan and the floods in Spain, 5 seconds, unattributed but I think I recognised her, without further context or explanation, just 5 seconds where a climatologist said…
“people keep telling me this is the new normal; we are on course for 2.6 degrees of warming before the end of the century, we are only half way to a new normal”
The BBC video opens the with anchor said the count was over 200 dead “making this Europe’s worst weather disaster in five decades.”
The 2003 European heatwave had a death toll on the scale of 70,000.
Maybe heatwaves aren’t “weather” to them.