95 Killed, Dozens Missing in Spain Flash Flood

Another day, another crazy weather event.  12 inches of rain in a few hours would require a deluge of water like none of us have seen.  The earth continues to groan as it anticipates its redemption…which will happen after the rapture, after the 70th Week of Daniel, when Christ returns to earth to set up His kingdom for 1000 years and sits on David’s throne in Jerusalem.

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At least 95 people have been killed by severe flash floods in Spain, according to authorities on Wednesday, as emergency responders scramble to find dozens of missing people.

In the worst-affected region of Valencia, 92 people were killed, according to Angel Victor Torres, Spain’s minister of territorial policy and democratic memory. Two others died in Castile-La-Mancha, and one person in Andalusia.

Several locations in southern and eastern Spain were hit with up to 12 inches of rain in just a few hours on Tuesday, in what marked the worst rainfall in Valencia in 28 years, according to state weather agency AEMET.

Emergency services in Valencia, the city of Malaga, and Castile-La-Mancha, among other regions, said they were still working on finding dozens of missing people.

Emiliano García-Page, president of Castile-La-Mancha’s regional government, compared the deluge to a levee breaking. “It’s not a rain pour, it was like a dam burst,” García-Page told Spain’s national broadcaster TVE. “People were calling [emergency numbers] crying, asking for help and it was almost impossible to reach them.”

The badly hit Valencia region was thrown into a state of chaos, with most highways becoming completely unusable on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. Vehicles that had been left abandoned in traffic were picked up by the water and moved around.

 https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/30/europe/spain-flash-floods-intl/index.html