Flash Floods Cause Problems For Spain
We dont get much rain in Spain but when we do, especially in Gota Fria, we can get a lot.
The “Gota Fria” (cold rain to us) only comes now and then and the last time people remember rain like this was in 1998.
It washed away cars and bridges and the normal “dry river beds” we are use to became torrents.
Beniarbeig Bridge Collapsing!
We had as much rain in a day, on the 12th October, than we normally get in a year! Me and my wife woke up, got out of bed, and stepped in an inch of water. Thing is, we live in an old townhouse and the bedroom (which is on the ground floor) is higher that the rest of the ground floor. So, we had about 4 inches throughout the house.
We spent the next 4 hours bailing out and mopping up. Found out later, a blocked drain, in our courtyard, had caused the problem. A few darn leaves, washed down by the rain had given us so much work.
A friend of ours was cleaning up the mess left by the storm and a wall fell on him, breaking his leg and pinning him into a dip in the ground. He couldn´t move and water which was still trickling down from the hill, was filling up the hole he was in! The police had to walk 2km to the house, because the road was washed away, and managed to get him out and off to hospital.
I am glad to say he is OK! His wife tells us “life goes on” and he was in his wheel chair hoovering up the house. Things are now getting back to normal but there is still a lot of work to do in some of the less fortunate towns.