Worse flood in Spain from the last 60 years. >5000 cars destroyed. Roads and fast train railways cut and many missing people still. About foreigners, the corpse of a British retiree was recovered.

Thousands of people received alerts on their phones, but it just happened too fast. People had 3 minutes from normal to 2m high water level inside the house, and many were surprised in the highway while driving. The authorities want to improve the phone system of alerts, including a black level beyond the current red.

The policy of last decades turning riverbeds into sterile concrete vases must be reviewed. Life forested river banks stop the water. Ecologists were saying this for 40 years. Concrete vases just accelerate and reinforce the flood. Of course people should stop building in the areas of influence of the riverbeds and those should be turned into gardens, but this is also an old issue discussed for years.