I guess that if people in Valencia had been alerted and stayed at home, at the upper stories or roofs of the buildings, it would all have had a more positive outcome...

yes, unfortunatelly I guess you are right on that point, I´ve lived a short Period in my spanish life down there in Valencia when we first started to develop Solar-Farms in Spain, it´s another cultur, another kind of people down there, they are lovely like all the spainish ones, but its more formal there like in Madrid, Barcelona or Málaga (pues, ah Málaga, es otra cosa no sé).

War on the roads takes much more casualties, you're right about that. Moreover, Bulgaria and Romania are "champions" with the most casualties in road accidents per million.

oh I wasn´t aware of that, did you know that we have a bigger population of Bulgarian and Romanian here in Andalucia, not as big as the english but bigger than the german ones ;)

I've rented cars in Spain a few times and apart from Madrid, I'd say, the driving "style" in Spain is much more relaxed, compared to the two countries I mentioned ;)

yes, that´s exactely to the point, my wife is from Madrid, and the traffic over there is the same like in Paris, or Berlin and Rome, but nothing compared to Sicily in Palermo and Catania, in my time over there (nearly 3 years) I lerned how to drive safe in the most agressiv to cities I ever were self driving and not have had a driver. I tell you, if one is able to survive this, he can drive everywhere in the world without having problems and fear for an accident.

And now my friend let´s hope that things will turn to the better side as the elections in America are the most interesting thing in the world, even if I don´t thnk that one of the two candidates will make a big change.