Videos of Mass Snowball ‘Fight’ Go Viral from Madrid after Historic Blizzard in Spain

As Storm Filomena hit Spain last Friday, covering it in record levels of snow, residents of Madrid decided to make light of a rather serious situation. I’m confused— Rocco January 10, 2021 I’m assuming you’re from a warmer climate… 😎 As long as they aren’t throwing solid ice chunks, snowballs usually disintegrate on contact and don’t really hurt, especially with lighter, freshly fallen snow. They are throwing Corona @ each other, 😥— Fada Beocca January 10, 2021 Lol they're gonna end up back on lockdown because of this— Tolleythevoice January 10, 2021 AND spread coronavirus.— ¡R!CHelD!OS!™ January 10, 2021 Perfect super spreader virus event!— Katie January 10, 2021 In a reference to ‘La Tomatina’, the festival is held in the town of Buñol in Valencia, Spain, where people throw tomatoes at each other purely for entertainment, a user posted: “No more TOMATO? ” No more TOMATO?😐— Nora.Boudjerima.نورة January 10, 2021 Soon after, Spanish journalist David Vidueiro Jiménez resorted to the microblogging website to explain that the police had intervened and broken up the ‘fight’. Ésta en Gran Vía ha durado unos minutos, paró y ahora comienza otra… pic.twitter.com/rMajo9sgam— David Vidueiro Jiménez January 9, 2021 In what is being described as the ‘worst snowstorm’ in the last five decades, Storm Filomena left scores Spaniards trapped on freeways.