What a Sunday we had here..........nightmare in the daytime!

 

Jeff

 

http://portugalresident.com/terror-in-albufeira-as-10-hours-of-torrential-rain-turns-roads-into-rivers

 

 

http://news.sky.com/story/1580273/one-dead-as-severe-flooding-hits-portugal

 

 

 

Edited November 2, 201510 yr by JeffTT

I read about that earlier. Stay safe Jeff! Have you or your property been affected at all?

I read about that earlier. Stay safe Jeff! Have you or your property been affected at all?

 

No we live 15 km west of there but the storm was huge but no lasting damage at our villa but the pool almost over flowed (lol) but that is not really any consequence compared to these poor souls.. I just cannot see how logistically this can all be fixed for the Christmas and New year celebrations, imagine the amount of work just to relay all the blocks let alone all the exposed cables, pipes, telecommunications etc. remember Portugal is not well placed to pay for all of this either?? then all of the buildings and business people, a real life disaster for Albufeira. The level of rainfall was epic, something like 90 cm in the first few hours, that`s nearly a meter everywhere! the top end of Albufeira has a huge culvert the size of a small river that runs down to the sea, but it just could not cope with the huge surge and burst open alongside a road, wiped the road out and then a few million gallons of water travelled down the hill in to a narrow gap between building which cause a huge increase in the water speed that burst out though old town at huge speed. All the time thunder and lightning and raining, it was like it for 8 hours!! started around 4 am which why I guess so many cars got washed away.

 

Jeff

 

 

Edited November 2, 201510 yr by JeffTT

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That's horrid glad your all ok.

I'm off to Portimao on the 13 of this month!

Not been there before & not this time of year.

Wow that was a lot of rain Jeff :w00t:

I'm off to Portimao on the 13 of this month!

Not been there before & not this time of year.

 

Portimao did suffer too but not anything like as much as Albufeira, but typical Algarve weather is forecast for sunny times again before the end of the week.

 

Jeff

Didn't realise they had Monsoons in Portugal !

Didn't realise they had Monsoons in Portugal !

 

Mmm..... been told by locals last time this happened was decades ago, anyhow scorchio again this morning which helps the clean up teams I guess.

 

Jeff

Matey, Glad your all ok. Bad news for all. So your pool nearly overflowed!!! Now that must be bad! did you loose your rubber ring LOL

 

Looks like a typical British road surface IMO.....

Christ that's awful those poor people :(

Yeah that's not good, take it easy Jeff :cool2: