Same for my daughter Jo, she has told me she can't get out for her walk as the rain is so hard, but on Christmas day the kids had on shorts and teeshirts.. is it just me but I always made my children dress up for christmas day?
I'm rained in !!!!!!
It has hardly stopped raining since my return to Spain on new years day and it had apparently rained all over christmas here!! Well it was torrential all night long last night and this morning, the dry river bed at the bottom of my garden is now a raging torrent and has flooded across our lane and we're trapped!!! The electricity keeps flickering, so I suspect this may be my last post for a while - AND more importantly, I've run out of cigarettes and we've hardly any food left in the house!! EEEEKKK!!!!!!
Welcome to Sunny Spain NOT!!!!!
Jo xxxx
Welcome to Sunny Spain NOT!!!!!
Jo xxxx
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Hey Jo...if things don't improve would you like us to drive up to Alhaurin in our trusty LandRover with emergency supplies of cigarettes and gin
It's been raining heavily here and I was woken up this morning by a vivid red flash across my closed eyeballs followed by a tremendous earth-shaking clap of thunder. Car alarms were set off, dogs barked. It must have been a strike nearby.
We managed to get OLA out for a two-hour walk on the deserted beach but it's clouding over again.
I used to hate our LR but I've grown to love it and we're thinking of giving it a name. No doubt about it, it goes where others fear to drive. To get to our beach you can either drive about 5 km to the nearest cambio de sentido or drive across what is now a ragingt torrent of a usually dry rio. We watched people in 'normal' cars drive up, take one look and turn back but we just sailed through what must have been well over half a metre of rushing muddy water.
Don't know what we'd do without the trusty Disco.
It's been raining heavily here and I was woken up this morning by a vivid red flash across my closed eyeballs followed by a tremendous earth-shaking clap of thunder. Car alarms were set off, dogs barked. It must have been a strike nearby.
We managed to get OLA out for a two-hour walk on the deserted beach but it's clouding over again.
I used to hate our LR but I've grown to love it and we're thinking of giving it a name.
No doubt about it, it goes where others fear to drive. To get to our beach you can either drive about 5 km to the nearest cambio de sentido or drive across what is now a ragingt torrent of a usually dry rio. We watched people in 'normal' cars drive up, take one look and turn back but we just sailed through what must have been well over half a metre of rushing muddy water.Don't know what we'd do without the trusty Disco.
Hey Jo...if things don't improve would you like us to drive up to Alhaurin in our trusty LandRover with emergency supplies of cigarettes and gin
It's been raining heavily here and I was woken up this morning by a vivid red flash across my closed eyeballs followed by a tremendous earth-shaking clap of thunder. Car alarms were set off, dogs barked. It must have been a strike nearby.
We managed to get OLA out for a two-hour walk on the deserted beach but it's clouding over again.
I used to hate our LR but I've grown to love it and we're thinking of giving it a name.
Don't know what we'd do without the trusty Disco.
Well the "river" across our lane has gone down a bit so I've just risked it (its amazing what the need for a packet of ciggies will make me do lol). Quite frightening tho. I decided to wizz thru it at speed, but I hadnt taken into account that it would be slippery underneath. But I made it and I'm glad I didnt do it when it was even deeper cos I think I'd have been in trouble. Its quite bad around our village. The shortcut into Alhaurin de la Torre is blocked by a big heap of mud, mudslides everywhere, cars in ditches and diggers building up embankments. Anyway, alls well for me now, I've been to the "estanca" and Mercadona. I may go and get another gas bottle in a mo - just in case!!!!
Jo xxxx
Oh, I know that only too well
You do need to be really careful in this weather if you don't have a 4x4, though. Do you have to do the school run this p.m.?
Fortunately not. It was when I was driving Ruby to school at 7.45am that I saw this huge river at the bottom of the lane and had to reverse back to the house! It was still dark and tipping it down so I didnt think it was a good idea to even attempt it. So she's having a day off and loving it!!!! My son doesnt go back until Monday!!!!!!Oh, I know that only too well
You do need to be really careful in this weather if you don't have a 4x4, though. Do you have to do the school run this p.m.?
I'm quite proud of my little citroen tho - bless it, its bravely driven thru water, mud, potholes, slid in and out of ditches.... and I dont treat it aprticularly well
:clap2:Jo xxx
jo becareful about driving across flooded fords. My husbands cousin got washed down river when crossing a flooded ford in the Uk and was drowned. He used that same crossing for years but misjudged how deep it was that one time and paid for it with his lifeFortunately not. It was when I was driving Ruby to school at 7.45am that I saw this huge river at the bottom of the lane and had to reverse back to the house! It was still dark and tipping it down so I didnt think it was a good idea to even attempt it. So she's having a day off and loving it!!!! My son doesnt go back until Monday!!!!!!
I'm quite proud of my little citroen tho - bless it, its bravely driven thru water, mud, potholes, slid in and out of ditches.... and I dont treat it aprticularly well
Jo xxx
PLEASE do not take any silly chances.
Thanks Veronica, dont worry I'm not going out again for a few days now - well obviously if it dries up I will!! I need nothing from the outside world now, plenty of ciggies, dog food, drink, food, so we're stocked up - well maybe we should have a spare gas bottle, but its just started raining here again, so I'll not bother loljo becareful about driving across flooded fords. My husbands cousin got washed down river when crossing a flooded ford in the Uk and was drowned. He used that same crossing for years but misjudged how deep it was that one time and paid for it with his life
Jo xxx
if you walk to the end of our road, you can actually see the instituto my dd goes to, but on more than one occaision recently she's been rained in - the rain comes down off the mountain & turns our street into a raging river!Fortunately not. It was when I was driving Ruby to school at 7.45am that I saw this huge river at the bottom of the lane and had to reverse back to the house! It was still dark and tipping it down so I didnt think it was a good idea to even attempt it. So she's having a day off and loving it!!!! My son doesnt go back until Monday!!!!!!
I'm quite proud of my little citroen tho - bless it, its bravely driven thru water, mud, potholes, slid in and out of ditches.... and I dont treat it aprticularly well
Jo xxx
Guess what!! I've just seen a little snow here - for the first time in yonks!! OK, it's raining cats and dogs, but suddenly the wind got up and we had a little snow shower. Of course, it's not settling - but one can dream!! We've been watching the UK news v carefully as my parents are due to fly back to the SE next week - nice to look at, but absolute mayhem.
Stay safe, Jo!!
We've been watching the UK news v carefully as my parents are due to fly back to the SE next week - nice to look at, but absolute mayhem. Stay safe, Jo!!
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