Cities, Cultural Heritage and the Culture of Responding to Floods
Emergency Planning
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
Print 0 46 false false false EN-GB X-NONE AR-SA In the autumn of 1972 I visited a town called Puerto Lumbreras, located in the Province of Murcia in southeastern Spain. It had just been affected by a major flash flood, the effect of a gota fria meteorological phenomenon of the kind that so devastated Valencia in October 2024. The Rambla de Nogalte stream, which runs through the centre of town, was a mass of churned-up mud.
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