flood watch

[adam2]

King of Spain pelted with mud, as a protest against the slow and inadequate government response to the flood disaster.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvg4p0y3xlpt

[Forever_Winter]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/ ... -valencia/

Indeed Adam not looking good for the King of Spain....oh dear...

[Potemkin Villager]

This is quite prescient. https://news.sky.com/story/where-are-th ... wtab-en-gb

I have a horrible feeling it would not play out very differently if/when something similar happens in UK or Ireland.

There is just a lot of posturing and arm waving at a political level and nobody taking charge of or any emergency plan. No wonder folk are incensed. Then there is a matter of a lot of development on flood plains etc. The politicians really do not get it. The Guardia Civil are maybe not the best body for this as they have a lot of history going back to Franco and the civil war.

[adam2]

This is quite prescient. https://news.sky.com/story/where-are-th ... wtab-en-gb

I have a horrible feeling it would not play out very differently if/when something similar happens in UK or Ireland.

There is just a lot of posturing and arm waving at a political level and nobody taking charge of or any emergency plan. No wonder folk are incensed. Then there is a matter of a lot of development on flood plains etc. The politicians really do not get it. The Guardia Civil are maybe not the best body for this as they have a lot of history going back to Franco and the civil war.

I agree, that the UK response would be found wanting when a similar event happens here.
UK response ! give parking tickets to all the drowned vehicles piled in the streets.
Issue fixed penalty notices to those placing ruined belongings outside their homes "putting out refuse on the wrong day"

[Potemkin Villager]

I agree, that the UK response would be found wanting when a similar event happens here.
UK response ! give parking tickets to all the drowned vehicles piled in the streets.
Issue fixed penalty notices to those placing ruined belongings outside their homes "putting out refuse on the wrong day"

Ye gods but you seem to be, probably justifiably so, just even a tad more cynical about the bureaucratic and legalistic "arse covering" and blaming others, to distract from their own shortcomings, mindset of TPTB than myself!! Six years trying to make a difference in local government was enough for me. I now see a younger generation getting more and more frustrated as they start to realise that they are just being used to try and make it look as if something substantive is being done.

This is will prove to be one of the significant reasons why any "official" response to the manifestations of climate change
and what needs to be done to respond to and mitigate them, will be continue to be so outstandingly underwhelming. The cute hoor politicos and more than my job's worths will see to that.

In the end of the day we are all on our own and dependent on our neighbours.