Just days before the presidential elections in the United States, the most contentious of recent decades and also the most existential for the world at large, the major organs of the international media hardly had space on their front pages for other matters. Notwithstanding, the tragic DANA-caused flash floods in Valencia and the incredible images of cars swept aside like dry leaves by strong winds, piled up in narrow streets or tunnels, gave Spain the news headlines and triggered a tide of solidarity, making us reflect on the new dangers associated with climate change, in the face of which the efforts of nations to control it are utterly failing. Vehicles illustrated the ‘apocalypse of rain’ on the covers of Italy’s daily Corriere della Serra, the United Kingdom’s The Guardian, Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine, and Portugal’s Jornal de Notícias, to then cross the Atlantic Ocean and appear in Peru’s El Comercio or Argentina’s Clarín as well as the USA’s The Washington Post and The New York Times. Mud, devastation, and rescues were shown in Belgium’s newspaper Le Soir and France’s Le Monde, as they were in the UK’s The Times and Ireland’s Irish Independent; and Spain’s King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia’s reaction to an enraged crowd was highlighted as much by the French Le Figaro and the Mexican El Universo as by the British The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian, going from the grief of victims to the political and institutional crisis unleashed by the State’s late and insufficient answer to the Valencian tragedy.