Thank you for including the reason at post title, I’ve seen this news somewhere and refuses to click on links, at first I was like “its bone dry there how tf a sudden flood came out from somewhere” and then i see your post.
After clicking some links, I confirmed that there was also a storm called Daniel and that the two dams didn’t just burst by themselves, they burst because of the flood from that storm
PS: apparently it’s not just the storm, there were previous warnings.
A 2022 report in an academic journal had warned that if a flood equivalent to one in 1959 was repeated, it would be “likely to cause one of the two dams to collapse, making the residents of the valley and the city of Derna vulnerable due to a high risk of flooding”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/12/libya-floods-death-toll-dams-burst
Is this dam collapse the cause of the floods or in addition?
The dam collapsed due to flash flooding due to storm Daniel which dumped a much higher than normal amount of rain.
This horrific catastrophe is not only the product of severe weather, intensified by climate change. It flows from the war NATO waged against Libya in 2011, which shattered the country and plunged it into civil war.
