In the. fall of 1972 I went to a community called Puerto Lumbreras, located in the. District of Murcia in southeastern Spain.
It had actually just been impacted by a major. flash flooding, the impact of a gota fria atmospheric sensation of the. kind that so ruined Valencia in October 2024 The Rambla de Nogalte stream,. which runs through the centre of community, was a mass of churned-up mud. In the. center, a truck was twisted around the remains of a concrete message, an enormous. boulder was perched on the very first floor of an apartment or condo block that had actually been.
gutted by the floodwaters and the bloated remains of a pig lay amid the sediment. washed down by the raging waters. In the bordering countryside, debris and. water had actually ruined the orchards and
regarding the eye can see the landscape. teemed with decaying oranges, noticeable as thousands of bright dots amidst the greys. and browns of the mud and silt down payments. There had actually been fatalities and there was.
a lot devastation. On the method road a steel girder viaduct had actually been folded up. up and swept kilometres downstream by the physical violence of the water. Effective floodings. struck Puerto Lumbreras once again in 2012 [