Málaga seems to be underwater at the moment. The news here is all about flooding and rivers bursting their banks and social media is full of images and videos of people being rescued by helicopter, of flood water charging though urban streets, flooded underpasses, water cascading down into the metro system in Málaga, and of cars and buses immersed in water. There has been at least one fatality so far. We have largely escaped damage ourselves but others have not been so lucky.
The rain here seems pretty unpredictable. We spend a lot of time waiting for it but when it arrives it often comes with a vengeance and on a biblical scale. The reservoirs were said to be well below capacity last week, even following the previous weekend´s heavy downpours but the latest torrent should go some way to putting this right.
It is a shame that replenishing of depleted reservoirs should be accompanied by such loss and damage. To give you an idea of what has been happening, I attach below some pictures that have been making the headlines.
Glad to hear you and your neighbours are all ok. Dramatic photos ,especially those horses. Keeep us posted.
Hi Harry. We´re all safe and well here. I think one of the dog shelter places got flooded out but all the animals are okay. Those horses aren´t looking happy. Hopefully things will return to normal soon. Take care, P.
Yes, Glad to hear you are ok, we are just bit further north at Fuente de Piedra, our pool has gone up by about 4 inches in the last few days, we took a trip around the laguna but there does not seem to be a lot of water in there, so I think it is more along the coast that got the worst.
I think you´re right Clive. It seems to have been pretty localised. Places like Coin, Cartama, Estepona really got hammered.
blimey Paul! that looks pretty serious. glad to hear you’re okay.
Cheers Dave. Luckily we are away from the seriously affected area.