THE RAIN IN SPAIN AGAIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You would NOT believe the water here today..................it rained..................then we had a flash flood ( which lasted for ages ) and guess what?????????????????'............................the water came OVER our ramp and down into the garage AND it also went down the exit ramp on the other side ( it's never done that before ).

El Presidente phoned the guy who is supposed to be in charge of the garages ( it's still the builders, not ours, even though it's the base of our building ) and he came out and brought 3 builders with him and knocked down the wall that caused the problem in the 1st place ( this will please the builder opposite who erected the wall ) Then he ( our builder ) knocked a hole in our periferal wall to let out the water on our side...................previously our lawyer said we could not do this.....................but hey!! it's done now.

Our builder is coming at 8am tomorrow ( he says ) to pump out the garages.

RESULT????????????.........yes in a back handed way!!

Well, Karensun, I am pleased to say that it has been a GLORIOUS day here in SUNNY Kent. All my washing is dry and fresh smelling.   The sun is still shining and the weathermen are forecasting that the good weather will last over the weekend and into next week!!

Having said that, I hope that the weather in Spain improves by 23rd May which is when my next stay commences, unfortunately only for 4 days this time. It really annoys me how this work thing gets in the way!!

Noreen 

 

This message was last edited by nfm2862 on 5/9/2008.

So.... Karen, it's like this down your road ALL OVER AGAIN !! Been another gorgeous day here in Somerset.

Karen, if you received my email yesterday from my Virgin mail which I sent from my Hotmail one too, today, please let me know as some mails aren't getting through. Thanks.

 

This message was last edited by morerosado on 5/9/2008.

well, as the old saying goes...

the rain in Spain, falls mainly, when you get off the plane!

 

Here's the road..............................

Here's the builder's men knocking down the wall which has caused a lot of the problema...............

They have been pumping out now for about 7 hours and the water in the garage has gone down about one inch !!

Sorry, forgot to say..........yes More, got your mail, will reply when we've dried out !!!

Karen, you made your photos rather small !

Can you post larger please ? Sounds as if you're suffering where your apartments are.

Thank goodness you're on the 2nd floor, I wouldn't fancy being in a  ground floor one .

 

I made them small cos last time you said they were too big!!!

When the rep told us to expect 360 days of sunshine.................a, I didn't expect it to be sunny ANd cold..................and b...........I didn't expect to get the same rainfall as in UK BUT ALL IN ONE DAY !!!!!

Oh shucks Karen, there's a difference between you posting ones which take up more than the screen & these tiddy ickle ones.

Don't you  at More. I can  back.

After the last two hours I've had I'm opening a  

Whats happened to the weather in Spain, nearly every time i look at the forcast its bad.

AccuWeather.com currently at 4.15.pm  our area in Cabo De Palos Murcia wait for it!  .....................temp.19deg.C  not bad considering it was freezing in Scotland this morning. Yes  it does dip at night. Can't wait to live there next year!

Hey Karen, how's your garage? 
Ours is flooded again (as well as the lift shaft, naturally) and I had to get my car out today before it became a submarine. First time it's been that bad. Water coming up through the drains as usual, but today also coming in through the door at the bottom of the ramp.
Just to add to the fun, a couple of weeks back the rain was so heavy that it started getting in the lift shaft at the top floor (the corridors are open to the elements and the lift has minimal protection) and it affected some electrical components on the roof of the lift cabin, causing €700 of damage. Waiting to see if insurance will pay out. This morning I called the lift up to the top floor, then switched everything off, so if water gets in there again, at least the roof of the cabin will be above the point of entry. And everyone gets fit into the bargain.
The community idiot suggested that the council / water board should pay the bill for the repair. Well, we know the water coming up through the drains in the garage is the fault of the inadequate street drainage, but rain getting in upstairs? I had to explain patiently in Spanish that the water board don't control the rain (that would be God, I said! Shall we sue Him?)
Whilst I have been trying to keep a low (ex-president) profile these days, it transpires that said community idiot and his cronies have asked the administrator to send a perito out to have a look over the building with a view to writing up a report on all it's failings (such as lack of guttering on the roof above the lift shaft, which he feels is why rainwater got in). Such a report may cost around €800. Why do we need a report stating things we already know, I asked? Why not just put some guttering up? (Which will cost far less than €800) Because we can use the report to take the developer to court, they cried joyfully. 
Oh, and wait 3 years, and fork out how much in legal fees, just to have our day in court, without, I hasten to add, any guarantee of a victory. And if we don't win, (which I seriously doubt we would anyway, since the design is typical Andalucian style pitched tiled roof which never has guttering) we pay their costs as well.
Whatever, they said, there's no charge for the guy to come out and talk to us, so what's the problem? The problem, you stupid Woolyback, is that the guy is coming out next Tuesday, and surprise surprise, you're p*ssing off back to Woolybackland (Extremadura) on Sunday and leaving guess who to deal with this waste of time as usual? 
Why is the ex-president getting involved, I hear you all ask?
Don't.
 

Hi everyone,
Remember Spain also needs rain for agriculture, golf courses, etc, not in a torrential way and causing floods though! If it does not rain we won't have water at all and Spain will become a desert where nobody can spend holidays! Just look at it in this way
un saludo
Ana

If we had wanted rain we would have stayed in England!
There's nothing wrong with desert. Parts of Almeria province are beautiful (in a deserty kind of way!)
It's not actually the rain that's the problem. It's the over-development (construction) of the Costas and the under-development of their infrastructure that causes problems. For every old villa that existed 40 or 50 years ago, there is now an apartment block housing many times more families than the original property, producing many times more waste water, which has to go somewhere. But the capacity of the drainage system has never been increased sufficiently. And underground parking in such blocks should never have been approved by a town hall that knows their drainage system can't cope with what in England would be considered a modest downpour.

Hi any one know when the rain is due  let up?i can only get the weather forcast up for the malaga areaneed is for carvajal?  i think i might have a river to cross to get up to my apt with all the heavy rain thanks irene

Try this website for the 7 day forecast.

http://www.aemet.es/es/eltiempo/prediccion/localidades?l=29540 

Noreen

As i sat on my terrace yesterday i saw two kids come down the street towards the stormdrain on two giant rubber rings.....i guess someone enjoys the rain.
We do need it and after all it is the winter...

Is it still raining in Spain?
Ana

Hi Roberto....................just returned from UK where it is not only wet but bloomin COLD.

We missed the rain here but i am pleased to report that we had NO RAIN in our garages ! ! ! This is due to our ramp and the bloomin great hole the builder put in the offending wall which no one has bunged up yet ( technical talk ! )

Lucky you, Karen. We're knee deep.

Georgia, we don't need rain, we need fewer people, then we wouldn't need to destroy more natural habitats in order to fill more reservoirs. Why is it that us humans always think we have more right to over-populate the planet than other species?

Roberto,
My comment was on behalf of the local farmers really,i live in the Vega Baja or Huerta de Europa which means thousands of fruit tress,these guys need the rain to fill the reservoirs to keep their industry alive.
Torremendo reservoir,which supplies water for the people is full so that not a problem.
As to your answer of why we destroy our own enviroment??....well i guess it's because we can unfortunately........
Nice and sunny today here..........hope you have the good weather there......

Nice and warm today - good garage drying weather

Hi glad to her the weather is better i only hope the sand bags out side my storage room held out some of the rain bye irene

Hope it is warmer in Spain than it is here this morning at minus -10

Global warming has definitely arrived.
 

This message was last edited by tinto. on 12/3/2008.

We experienced the October flooding on the Northern Costa Blanca last year, we had just lost the wife's car a few months earlier in the Sheffield floods, we started to wonder if it was something to do with us.

Where we intend to buy is high lying but we never imagined that the hillside road leading to the coast road could become a raging torrent. We saw cars almost completely submerged, swimming pools flooded with dirty water and a lot of property damage. However we also saw the parts that were totally unaffected by the flooding and have set our sights on a property in a safe area, these are where drives incline to a property.

I am sorry to hear of the current flooding problems but without first hand knowledge of last years flooding we wouldn't have given such a thing a second thought.