Saturday, October 10, 2026

Flash floods in Santiago, Chile

 Mind-Blowing Footage Shows Flash Floods Taking Over Streets in Chile After Heavy Rains

This video is from the Las Condes neighborhood, where Mrs. Paco's family used to live.

I used to see this kind of thing in Arizona fairly frequently.

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  1. That no one died is a major miracle. Kudos to the first responders as well!

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  2. There was a place in the main drag out of the town where I went to high school where you didn’t want to be when it rained. Every couple of years, somebody would try to get across and get washed into the gulley.

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    1. In the same way mobile home parks attract tornadoes, flash floods seem to attract dare-devil drivers. When we lived in Arizona, we'd see local news stories all the time about people who tried to drive across a street awash in turbulent water, and the firemen would have to go out there and get them out of their vehicles, at great (and unnecessary) risk to themselves.

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