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going into twitter these days radicalizes me more than anything has ever done. the autonomic government knew there was going to be flooding and did not alert the citizens. people are talking about seeing corpses in garages and floating by the sea (there's 155 reported deaths right now). entire towns are left to handle the flooding and the damage by themselves, with no help from the government. the police are detaining people who shoplift because they have lost everything or don't have edible food at home. and the conservatives are making fake news incriminating the weather service and the EU / current president (defending the fucking dictator we had for 40 years btw). dozens of people are looking for loved ones that have disappeared. people can't contact friends and family because power is out. businesses are making people go to work. celebrities and politicians are saying that this isn't climate change. i'm so done

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please, repost and help with the diffusion of this post!!!!

hey so probably not a lot of you are aware of what's going on in Valencia (Spain) right now , and we're going through some really bad meteorological conditions (know as DANA) which paired with the government's late actions have caused A LOT of people to be victims of floods.

as of now, around 160 people have been declared dead and there are uncountable missing people. the situation is critical, many people from the municipalities around Valencia (paiporta, alfafar, sedaví, xiva, benetusser, catarroja, silla, la torre... and more) don't have running water or electricity. hundreds of animals are being transported however possible since shelters have been destroyed. people are starving unable to drink water, and incommunicated. everyone around here is trying to help, but for now, the accesses are cut and we can't go physically help them, we can only donate things they need.

DONATIONS/GOFUNDME

these are some links to help the victims of this situation and the future reconstruction of this huge area that has been destroyed

https://www.gofundme.com/f/una-copa-por-valencia?qid=4d79e2c673dc9f2024b6d8acb47953ca

https://www.gofundme.com/f/ayuda-damnificados-por-el-dana-en-valencia?qid=4d79e2c673dc9f2024b6d8acb47953ca

this link is specifically to help animal shelters that have been wrecked and are in a critical situation

https://www.gofundme.com/f/ayudemos-a-el-refugio-de-maria-tras-la-dana?qid=4d79e2c673dc9f2024b6d8acb47953ca

INFORMATION/DIFFUSION

this is an instagram account which reports missing people around here

https://www.instagram.com/desaparecidosdanavlc?igsh=MXIzcmFlbmZ2MmF6ZA==

this account is trying to find specific help for people who need it using help forms

https://www.instagram.com/suportmutudana?igsh=MXF6YXFtNTl1dGQ2bg==

I'll try to update more resources about the situation and links where you can donate whenever i can although im pretty busy since im doing stuff around here too.

thank you for reading, please, spread the word! <3

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god i cant stop thinking about the DANA.

about a year ago, the local government cut the funding towards the emergency programs because they "were useless"

the climate agency had been warning about what was about to happen for days but they waited until 8pm to issue an emergency warning so people would work through the day. by that time, several communities had already been completely flooded.

the police advised people to get their cars out of the garage because they would probably flood. the streets flooded with hundreds of cars floating around hitting all shorts of infrastructure and people

a DANA or gota fría is a meteorological event that happens when part of a cold current is isolated inside a warm one causing very intense rain. how intense? 630 l/m² in 24 hours. climate change will only make this worse

(satellite images of valencia before and after the DANA)

so far, there are more than 200 confirmed deaths

this is such a nightmare. we couldn't have prevented the rain, but this didn't have to be such a tragedy. la generalitat has failed the valencian people.

NOMÉS EL POBLE SALVA EL POBLE

(please reblog to spread awareness. the people of valencia need help)

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Wow

The before and after of tuesday floodings in Valencia, south east Spain.

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My country is experiencing a traumatic natural disaster.

I made a comic to make it more digestible.

Shares appreciated, I'm just trying to bring awareness here

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How to help the people in Spain

As you may have seen online, Spain is going through a flash flood since October 29. It's mainly affected the Community of Valencia but also some parts of the south-west and the cold drop is now moving to the north-east.

95 bodies have been found at the time I'm writing this (edit: 205 now), there's still people missing and entire towns are isolated as they don't have electricity and their roads have been destroyed. A lot of people don't have tap water or any means to cook. If you're wondering why people didn't evacuate beforehand, it's because authorities didn't care enough to warn people so technically everyone had to go to work and school. Though politicians should be held accountable, the most important thing at the moment is to help those in need. So here's some ways you can help both people and animals that have been affected.

Families and towns

MOST NEEDED AT THE MOMENT: You can donate to Valencia's food bank by making a transfer to this bank account: ES86 2100 2806 6402 0009 8998.

Horta Sud is a county in Valencia that has been the most affected by the floodings. People are leaving their houses because they're scared of the infrastructure getting damaged and even walking by foot to Valencia capital to get food. You can help those families via this gofundme.

Hambre Cero is a Spanish non-profit that was founded after the earthquakes in Indonesia. They will be giving food to those who need it. Here's different ways you can donate.

Cáritas is a Spanish organization formed by different Catholic non-profits. They'll be giving food and also helping clean up the towns. You can donate here by clicking the button where it says "donar".

You can help rebuild the town of Letur (Albacete) by donating to this gofundme that's directly coordinated with the town hall.

This gofundme is joining efforts with the town hall of Valencia to help people who have lost their homes.

Please help this family in Valencia rebuild their home.

Una copa por Valencia ("a drink to Valencia") is a campaign organized by Spanish influencer David Aliagas. The idea behind it is to donate the amount of money you would spend on drinks on a night out. He'll be joining effort with local non-profits. You can help here.

Here's a thread of artists that are accepting commissions in exchange for donations for Valencia.

Animal shelters

Refugio Minipow was home to 50 rabbits and guinea pigs. Thankfully, the owners were able to move all the animals to their homes and those of their neighbors, though the shelter itself has been destroyed right after recent renovations. There's different ways to donate here.

El Refugio de María a dog shelter in Sueca (Valencia), is completely flooded, leaving the dogs visibly distressed, as shown here. You can donate to PayPal maria.g.may@gmail.com

Modepran is a dog shelter in Campanar (Valencia) where infrastructure damage has left some dogs without a proper sleeping area. You can donate through PayPal here.

Gatos Campo de Gibraltar is a cat shelter in Los Barrios (Cádiz). need of assistance for relocating cats to new homes and rebuilding damaged facilities. You can donate to their PayPal gatoscampodegibraltar@gmail.com

Protectora San Antón is an animal shelter for cats and dogs in Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz). The entire place is flooded and the animals don't have a comfortable place to sleep in. Cats can't even walk on the ground. You can donate to their PayPal protectorasananton@hotmail.com

I'll be adding more as I find them. Thank you everyone for your help.

Edit: adding this because I keep seeing people on Twitter and Tiktok say it makes no sense to give money to people in a "first world" country. I need you people to understand that living in a western country doesn't equal politicians caring about you.

This whole thing started because politicians weren't doing their job and they're still not doing it. People (literal civilians, not firefighters or policemen) are literally pulling bodies from under cars and putting them inside the trunks so children in the affected areas don't see them. There's underground parkings still flooded by water and we don't know how many people may be inside them.

France offered to send us 200 firemen and the Ministry of Interior literally REFUSED. Some of these French firemen came on their own anyway. But that's what our politicians are doing. Negating help and pointing fingers at each other so they don't seem guilty.

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I can't do anything to help those in Valencia, but I at least want to say my opinion.

I don't live close enough to go offer my help, and I can't really donate right now. I don't have a car and I live pretty far away from the city, which is where the main points to collect food, water and clothes are at.

But I'm seeing so much help from the rest of the Spaniards. Giant amounts of food and water being sent that way, and an even bigger amount of Valencians or people that live nearby walking to the most affected places carrying food, water and clothes, and shovels, brooms, buckets and whatever they each had in their home that could be used to help. Seeing all those people, all those volunteers, helping is heartwarming. Good people do exist. Solo el pueblo salva al pueblo. Only the village saves the village.

I want to clarify all this people are going there walking or biking because they aren't use the roads to not oversaturate them.

Now, let's being. What has happened?

Before: The day before AEMET, the State Meteorology Agency, had been giving warnings and updating their social media and all that saying that this was big, that what was coming was gonna be catastrophic. But nonetheless, no official warnings where given by the state. School and work was all continuing as before. No kind of informational help was sent to the people.

During: Rain. A shit ton of rain. A years worth of rain in 8 hours. Even in the places with no rain the effects are catastrophic, the rivers have caused floodings, and the cities, towns and villages have all been covered by meters of water. I don't know how much.

The water rises in minutes, is fast, and with no warning no one was prepared. People were off to work, continuing with their every day life, now trapped wherever the flood caught them. Many others had gone to their garages to try and get their cars out when they saw that they were starting to flood. And many people have died in them, trapped. Don't blame these people, no kind of warning of how big this was gonna be was given, cars are a very big economical investment for the families and, again, the water rises too fast to really do much.

Cars and all kind of big, sharp and heavy crap being dragged by the water. That water also contaminated (by what the river in itself had, the liquids that came from inside the cars and other places, and now by the decomposing organic matter), so those inevitably swimming in it were in great danger for many reasons.

Think about the animals too. Ah, and also, no light nor electricity while all this was going on.

I've seen people on social media saying how it all went for them. I'm not gonna say their individual stories, but if you look them up, you'll be able to find them.

Immediately after: The people went to different stores to try and get food, water and medicine. All this stores were already broken and had been affected by the floodings. And still some newspapers (you know who you are) were trying to put shame on this people. Yes, I guess some people could have used the commotion to steal from houses or jewelry stores or whatever, but it wasn't the case of what they were showing, and it's not what the vast majority of people where doing.

Many others were out looking for their missing relatives. Some started to walk towards the big city nearby, to find some help. The conditions of the streets were apocalyptic.

A bit more time after: What I've said at the beginning. The affected throwing out the things inside their house that were too damaged by the water. Still no food, water or electricity. The roads blocked by the residues of what the water had dragged. Lots of mud everywhere. And the good people going there to offer their help. To clean the streets and their houses.

More or less right now: Other parts of Spain and even other countries offer help and resources. And the government of Valencia (Carlos Mazón is called the president) refuses that help. It took too long for the military to be sent to this places, I still haven't seen any news or information of them there (3 Nov. The military are not there yet), but they are advising the volunteers not to go help, that theres no need anymore and that they are making it harder for the "actual help" to go. Lies. There's no emergency services help, no policemen, firefighters or military helping. And not because they don't want to, the help they offer is being rejected. They are refusing outside help. I'm not gonna say my opinion, but you try and think why the government wouldn't want to let outsiders to see what had happened.

Cleaning all that mud is so hard. All the help is appreciated. With proper equipment and machinery this would be easier.

Who to blame: The government. Some say the one from the whole Spain, some say the one from Valencia. I don't care. But they didn't help. None of them. Not only did they CHOSE not to warn the people, but they had cut down the budget for the emergency services and gave it to bullfighting instead. Right now the number of deaths is at 159, but there are still hundreds of disappeared people, and I've heard from too many people that it's just not true. Those living in those places say they see dead people as they walk around the street, those working closer with the deceased are saying that the numbers are much higher, the research parties saying how certain places are almost cemeteries. I've just heard this, so don't take me too seriously as I genuinely don't know much. But I rather believe the people helping than the government that very clearly doesn't care.

And, I mean, this rains are pretty obviously one of the consecuences of climate change and how little those in power and with the ability to do things properly care.

But if you don't want to blame rain on anyone, at least blame how they handled it.

Blame Carlos Mazón.

I feel awful for not being able to help. Once I'm back in the city I study, I'll try and see if I can do something. I'll at least go to the protest, which I am pretty sure is gonna happen. I really hope it happens. I don't have much money myself, I wish I could go offer my work. I feel like I'm just saying excuses to not help. All I can do is talk about it, but I'm not even someone with influence. I'm also thinking, I'm studying pedagogy. Would there be a need for the kind of help I can offer? For future events like this I think there should be preparation, like there is in case of a fire. Could I help with that? Maybe? I feel useless. I don't want to stay here, comfortably, as others suffer.

Update (3nov): The king, queen, president of Spain and president of Valencia have gone to one of the affected places, Paiporta. I don't know why they are there, they are obviously not helping with the manual labor. I've seen some stuff around, I don't know what's really going on so for now I don't say anything. But the people were screaming at them and throwing stuff.

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how do you draw pigs

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Renfe, no has llegado ningún día a la hora

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I passed so I bought one :]

I, um, I was thinking of buying myself a toy...

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BUT I ended up passing them after retaking the exam, so... all good :D

So... I have 6 classes rn, I've for sure passed one. Definitely failing two. And the other two are kinda up to destiny lol.

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Compañera de toda una vida.

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Heyyy, haven't been here in a while, how's everything going?

I got back to uni last month, and yesterday was the first official class of the archery club of this season.

There's really not much to update about. Oh, I am sick right now. But that's not specially relevant in my lives big picture haha. I don't have any morning classes today, and I couldn't be happier, because I've woken up feeling awful.

Today's thought, which I'm not gonna expand a lot on because I don't think I have enough brain power to do so at the moment, is that I've improved and I'm happy, but I couldn't have done so without interacting with others. Surround yourself with goodness and it will adhere to you, you'll start to see and grow it too.

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I love the Spider-Verse movies, so I wanted to get into the comics too. But I have never read any marvel comics, and there's so much of everything... Where should I start?

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Fangirl, Nerd, and Snob.

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the star

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I need to find something irl that obsesses me as much as pokemon does. I don't know that much about pokemon but it's part of me, most of my stickers are about it, it makes me happy, and giddy, and I love it.

But man, I also hate pokemon at the same time. And I think if I got as excited for other things, like birds, flowers, stones, whatever, my life would improve significantly.

But it's not like I can force my obsessions AAAAAAAA