{"id":4635,"date":"2023-09-12T21:58:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T02:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=4635"},"modified":"2023-09-12T21:58:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T02:58:36","slug":"cascades-of-red-wine-flood-a-citys-streets-in-portugal-after-huge-tanks-rupture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/09\/12\/cascades-of-red-wine-flood-a-citys-streets-in-portugal-after-huge-tanks-rupture\/","title":{"rendered":"Cascades of red wine flood a city&#8217;s streets in Portugal after huge tanks rupture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/09\/12\/1198913626\/red-wine-flood-city-portugal\">NPR<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is so much surplus red wine in Portugal, it&#8217;s flooding the streets. That&#8217;s one way of deciphering the incredible scene that unfolded in S\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o do Bairro, a small town where millions of liters of wine recently overwhelmed the roads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"pt\" dir=\"ltr\">Verdadeiro rio de vinho em Anadia.<br>Calamidade! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LejLz17XuK\">pic.twitter.com\/LejLz17XuK<\/a><\/p>&mdash; _o_cabra_da_peste (@nuno_mar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nuno_mar\/status\/1701158262593261586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 11, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The roughly 2.2 million liters of wine (some 581,000 gallons) poured out of two burst tanks at Destilaria Levira on Sunday, according to local newspaper\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariocoimbra.pt\/noticia\/108840\"><em>Di\u00e1rio de Coimbra<\/em><\/a>. A viral video from the scene shows a &#8220;river of wine&#8221; coursing down a hilly street, sluicing over its curbs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company issued a statement saying it &#8220;profoundly laments&#8221; the incident, pledging to bear the costs of the cleanup. S\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o do Bairro sits near Portugal&#8217;s coast, roughly an hour&#8217;s drive south from Porto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No one was hurt by the torrent of wine, but it did reportedly flood at least one cellar. Local officials are now working to repair the damage done, and also to prevent the alcoholic liquid from affecting local farms, vineyards and water supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The large amount of wine was being stored at the distillery through the government&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dinheirovivo.pt\/economia\/elevada-procura-na-destilacao-de-crise-vai-obrigar-a-rateio-de-quase-50-16796263.html?fbclid=IwAR08HGELdLtsIYr9qOYj2tD4Fo1P9pCuCsa2Q6v6QbuKp5gBvKazKDrD9yU\">&#8220;crisis distillation&#8221; program<\/a>, which aims to use incentive funds to remove a glut of wine from the market pipeline before this year&#8217;s harvest. It was slated to be converted into alcohol.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR There is so much surplus red wine in Portugal, it&#8217;s flooding the streets. That&#8217;s one way of deciphering the incredible scene that unfolded in S\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o do Bairro, a small town where millions of liters of wine recently overwhelmed the roads. The roughly 2.2 million liters of wine (some 581,000 gallons) poured out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":4636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coping-with-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-12-at-22.55.53.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4638,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4635\/revisions\/4638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}