Two floods, two losses: the garage's mounting bill

Two floods, two cars lost and a garage that keeps flooding

Losing a car twice in the same garage is not bad luck: it is an issue that remains unresolved. In a flood-hit area, one owner has lost two vehicles in the same communal parking space: a Tucson first and a Tesla later. Between the two incidents, the community undertook works in the garage to prevent water from entering again. The water entered again. According to his account, all the cars in the parking lot were lost.

Was advance warning given about the new torrent of water?

There were warnings, and that is exactly the point of contention. Accounts agree that the water arrived late in the afternoon, all teaching activities were suspended, and a Levante match was postponed. From there, versions diverge: some maintain that the warnings arrived after the water had already fallen, while others respond that the risk of severe storms had been announced for days and that the alert was known even hundreds of kilometers away.

Why does a repaired garage flood?

Because repairing is not the same as redesigning. The described case involves a communal parking facility that underwent works after the first incident and has once again filled with water, including an electric car and its charging point. Parallel to this, videos circulate of flooded streets with water up to waist height. An old idea reappears: park high up, with ramps, instead of at ground level.

What is charged when a car is lost in a flood

The first incident was handled by the Insurance Compensation Consortium (Consorcio de Compensación de Seguros), which indemnified the owner. The amount, according to his own description, was far from the vehicle's value. This gap between what was paid and what it costs to replace the car is what drives someone to buy another one and trust that the garage was fixed. The second vehicle has also not survived.

With community works that fail to divert the water and an alert system whose effectiveness remains disputed, the next episode finds the same garages in the same place. The unknown is how many people will repeat the purchase after the second time. This account suggests that few.