Photographs of devastation from this morning on our journey down to the coast... The main river we drive down from the mountain beside was full, at its worse it must have been close to the road in some places because by the golf courses at Las Lagunas dead wood and rubble has piled up near the barriers on the river side... large old trees brought down who knows how many miles...
At the garden centre and other businesses down near Aldi everyone was out hosing down the drives and parking and forecourts... Washing the streets helping the councilmen clean up...
One of the gold courses had lost its stone wall, its fences and the course was flooded out...
We didn't intend to go down today, but friends needed us to give them a hand and we did, all sorted soon we hope!
We also went for lunch at the now very famous La Cala BP restaurant, yes BP as in petrol station! And very good it is too, they do rush about a bit though and you feel, well from where we were sitting that as they rushed past we rushed to eat... next time sitting at a table rather than a bar would be more beneficial!!
Very large plastic container in the cave is catching drips we have from a leak in there, its only the second time we have had water come in there, so that's not too bad really is it? And water coming in the kitchen too from around the door frame, which is odd, never had that before, but also never had this much water coming into the little back patio either, hope it stops raining soon, the paintwork is bubbling a little and I don't want it getting damp...
When we got home from our trip water in the planters out on the front balcon was drowning the poor plants there and on the terrace, it had been raining for six days by then, and was about two inches deep or just overflowing in some of the pots! So I stuck a screwdriver down into the still tightly packed earth and the water drained in and then out the bottom of the planters... That is why our whole area here is flooding!! So dry, so hard packed earth that none of this water can actually penetrate and soak in, its just surfing the top soil and causing floods! So, yes, we need to get out there and stick sharp things into the ground to let the water in!! LOL, yes okay, crazy talk!
TTFN
Marian
