Spanish homes (specially south & east, plus islands) are mostly prepared for the heat. There's a seesaw pattern:
The older the better: Thicker walls, good orientation, good ventilation with small windows on first floor... It depends on the area); but also newer buildings have efficient insulation and good AC machines.
It's the cheap, built between 70-90s houses that may lack some stuff.
The only reason most of us aren't <more> adapted is that we aren't as rich as northern Europeans.
So when we saw what unfolded this month all over the EU, we asked ourselves: They knew this would happen, we've been telling everyone about fast warming & extreme events, Why did they didn't brace for impact?
I guess because they don't take anything under the Pyrenees seriously (we're only a place with beaches, pools and bars).
The low energy prices, the solar panels & wind turbines everywhere weren't enough cues for you, right?
@mr_whateley We've been warned for years this was coming. But people keep voting for governments who prefer cutting budgets. Again and again.
Hospitals are dying. Schools are crumbling.
It's not that we thought we're better than the south. It's because we keep electing morons who's only concern is tax reductions for business, common people be damned.
@mr_whateley I agree 100% that it's the racist attitudes. It's always so weird to me when people think that racism has to be connected to skin color. We're northern Europeans, we have racisms otger people can barely conceive of.
In a broader sense, I think it folds into this larger northern Europe problem that people here have such a massive sense of entitlement and superiority. We genuinely believe that global climate change won't affect us, because natural disasters are for foreigners.
Also we're somehow too stupid to invest in ACs, even though the last 10(?) years we consistently hit 40°C in summer at some point.
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