Unexpected Flooding in Bulgaria on October 3, 2025

Scary! Was this a flood prone city? I hope nobody was hurt

It was a seaside resort next to the Black Sea. Corrupted officials gave permissions to build over a riverbed, which was dry for years. However, after 36 hours of rain the water remembered its old path, and it became a river again… Four persons died in the flood.

You aren’t kidding! Google maps shows the river but satellite image shows a town right on top of it. No canals or flood channels

There is a channel, at least it seems so, that ends up on the beach and starts right at the top of the village. It was probably either too small or blocked by all the garbage that was piled up… upstream…

Share a link please. Couldn’t find it

> Elenite https://www.google.com/maps/place/%D0%95%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5,+Bulgaria

Thanks man.

Elenite? Damn Yeah that looks like a flood to happen.. 3km of hillside slope into what looks like a wadi delta…

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Name a few 2nd world countries

Didn’t see the OP you responded to, but are the Eastern Bloc and the ‘stans’ now commonly considered 1st world? Haven’t given it a thought in decades and I know the name means nothing outside of Cold War alliances, but just curious in common speech?

That’s all I was getting at, I just thought I’d be difficult and bring up the terms obsolescence.

Got ya dog, appreciate it

Heavy rain over 24 hours caused significant damage across Bulgaria, with officials on Friday confirming two deaths in the resort of Elenite near the Black Sea city of Burgas, roads were flooded and schools in some areas closed for the day here is the full article: https://balkaninsight.com/2025/10/03/two-dead-in-bulgaria-as-torrential-rain-causes-widespread-flooding/

It’s 4 deaths as of now. 3 of the Bulgarians rescuers yesterday and 1 foreign tenant’s body found earlier today.

I’m not trying to be a cunt, I’m just curious. How do people die in floods? Can’t swim? Electrocution? Trapped indoors?

It’s almost impossible to swim because of the current. That with an insane amount of debris you get pummeled with, you end up drowning or dying from blunt force trauma.

I don’t know about these specific deaths, but in general, that water is a lot of mass moving relatively rapidly – if it’s ankle-height, it’ll bowl you over, not to mention all the debris. It’s very easy to drown in a flood like this, even if you’re a strong swimmer. It’s also easy to get trapped in a vehicle if you don’t get out before the water reaches the doors (since to open the doors, you’d be pushing against the water) and in following days/weeks, you’ll get many deaths from infection since floodwaters are often contaminated by sewage and other waste water, so even a tiny cut can result in a devastating infection.

Love that people still hate on you even though you said you’re not trying to be a cunt. I talk to my kids about it, why you never drive through floodwaters. They’re nowhere near driving age, they can barely read a book between the two of them, but the conversation generally ends up that the floodwaters bring you out to whatever river the water is flowing to, and that river is high, and it is flowing *fast*. When the river by us gets high (which it seems to do a lot lately), I’ve taken my daughter down to check it out. There’s a bridge that goes over it, spans the 200 or so feet from bank to bank, and when it is high, the water is *ripping*. And so if you end up in it, you are going quickly, and sure, you may be able to stay afloat, but when you’re moving 30-40mph, or more (because floodwaters get fast), you may end up slamming into, or being slammed into, some big, heavy object that was dislodged by the floodwaters (i.e., boulders, dumpsters, cars, trees, etc.). And so all the swimming ability in the world doesn’t help when you get bonked in the noggin, although that may be the best way to go. Worse is if you get blasted in the legs and now you can’t swim and you just drown in pain, that one stinks. We had a flood near me 4 years ago that a few lives were lost. There was a video that circulated Reddit here of someone being in a basement and the wall caving in, though no one there died. Most lives lost come from people trapped in their cars. You’re driving home, the way is closed. You go another way, that way is closed. Some people chance it and don’t make it. Some people get stuck in between two rushes of water that connect. Had a friend whose mom spent the evening on the roof of her car against a tree as floodwater blew past her. So yeah, in a *standard* flood, you’ll get people who chance driving through water, and most of the time they make it, but sometimes they don’t. Flash floods can be anybody’s game.

I don’t think anyone was hateful 🤗

I just mean your negative score there, but perhaps you’ll trend in the other direction. Nobody said anything mean, so that’s a plus.

Haha, I didn’t even look at that shit, I’m an adult.

Just ’cause he said he’s not trying to be a cunt doesn’t automatically mean everybody else on the internet will not try to be a cunt. With that said, watching cars get sent down the street by the current and asking “man, how do people die to this?” is a *little* bit silly, let’s be honest.

Theres a lot of debris being washed around in a flood and the current is strong so you can die from getting ur foot stuck in something to getting ur skull bashed into your neighbors house or ur skull doesnt get bashed in by ur neighbors house and ur just bruised but something else bashes ur head against the house. Then you account for all the people that cant swim and thats how people die in floods.

Best op ever. Links the article.

Of course it’s going to flood if they leave old cars piled up in the river like that

Holy moly

Discounted used Mercedes cars coming up for sale in 3…2…1

Clean history.

Not likely the auto-service got flooded and some 2 million from their safes ended up in the water. 😀