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Shocking before and after photos show the devastation from flash floods in Spain

<p class="ingestion featured-caption">This before-and-after photo shows the area around a gas station in Picanya, near Valencia.Google Maps; JOSE JORDAN/AFP via Getty Images</p><ul class="summary-list"><li>Torrential rains flooded ravines, inundated highways, and killed over 150 people this week in Spain.</li><li>Before-after-after photos show the <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/flash-floods-spain-increasing-globally-experts-infrastructure-change-2024-10">destruction floodwaters wreaked</a> on Spain's Valencia province.</li></ul><p>At least 158 people were killed and more remain missing this week in flash floods after <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/spain-flooding-51-dead-in-valencia-region-economic-hub-2024-10">intense rainfall struck Spain's eastern province</a> of Valencia on Tuesday.</p><p>The flooding is some of the worst that Spain has seen in decades. Satellite images released by the <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2024/10/Valencia_flood_disaster">European Space Agency</a> capture the scale of the devastation.</p><p>Other images, which Business Insider geolocated and compared with images from <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/google-street-view">Google Street View</a>, show how the rainfall badly affected certain places in and around Valencia.</p>
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