2024 Rendezvous

[morninggents]

For those who follow Project Binky there is a new episode on YouTube. It looks like there will be at least one more episode to come at some point.

[Mike Harte]

Gordon, hope that you have escaped the worst of the Gota Fria which seems to have swept up and around the east coast. It appears that the worst is and has been to the south and the north of you in the Almeria area.

[Tel 911S]

Originally Posted by Mike Harte

Gordon, hope that you have escaped the worst of the Gota Fria which seems to have swept up and around the east coast. It appears that the worst is and has been to the south and the north of you in the Almeria area.

Yes , hope Gordon is OK .
I believe Valencia has had the worst of it . Probably because it is surrounded by mountains where all of the rain runs down into the town .
The media has , as usual , blown it up to be the worst " ever " , ignoring the fact that the Almeria had more rain in 1982 twice , 1983 , 1987 twice , 1991 , 1996 twice , 2002 .
I believe there was also mention of the rivers , drains , run offs not being kept up . But that will all be ignored and climate change will be blamed .

[Mike Harte]

Originally Posted by Tel 911S

I believe there was also mention of the rivers , drains , run offs not being kept up . But that will all be ignored and climate change will be blamed .

The problem is that the local authorities tend to ignore previous incidents such as the Gota Fria, which is the extremely heavy downpours that occur periodically in the autumn.

The local village near where I lived is one such. There the council decided to build a whole "estate" on land that, for centuries, had been left as a natural watercourse , exactly because of those extreme downpours as that part of the village was at the base of a hill. Concerned villagers contacted the the relevant authorities in Madrid who came and instructed the local town hall that the couldn't build there, which was ignored.

The next autumn, the area flooded and all buildings already constructed were ruined. Having just looked at the area on maps, most of it has been allowed to return to nature, except for the roads that were constructed nearly 15 years ago.

[GORDON STREETER]

Ok guys, although we had serious rain in our area we had no major problems that I know of, certain parts that flood even when it drizzles for five minutes were obviously under a little bit more but no structural damage or cars washed away. As we have been coming to Mojacar since 1972 we have seen it all, so when we actually bought our place we chose somewhere that can't really flood unless we get a 100ft wave ! We have seen the dried up ramblers in full flood over the years and TV programs like Place in the Sun don't mention thinks like that. It hasn't rained this year at all until 2 or 3 weeks ago and the ground was hard and it just ran down the mountains behind us and down the roads into the sea. At this moment we are in the UK where our house almost got flooded when we were in Spain, the lawns and garden are still covered in mud as well as the garden shed that had a foot of water and mud in it. We are booked to go to Spain in a couple of weeks for a very quick trip but at this moment I can't walk as my lower back has given up with a herniated disc that I have had for years.