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Boy, it hasn't stopped raining solidly here for over a week and the mountain is beginning to resemble the Victoria Falls :( folks around saying hasn't been this bad since they can't remember when and we're a bit stuck as the dirt track is disappearing fast. Anybody else have it as bad? :confused:

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Short memories :(

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Are you sure ... around here we've had bridges, roads, terraces and the like all washed away and looking at the Spanish news and weather forecasts, it's worse than for a long time too :huh:

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From personal memory we near Gibraltar get rain like this or much worse every 6 or 7 years.

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Okey dokey ... I'll start working on the ark now then :rofl: :thumbsup:

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I was here for the winter of 95/96 and it started raining at the beginning of December and didn't stop until March.

We recorded heavy rain on 60 out of 90 days!

In the last week we have recorded 250mm and it's still bucketing down.

Tomorrow and Monday should be dry but there is a lot more to come from Wednesday onwards.

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Yes 1995 was the last time we had water rationing. :frown:

That winter certainly made up for it.:thumbup:

The wettest event I remember was in November 1989.
Started pouring down on a Monday with roads etc flooded, carried on all week, then on the Friday we had 10.5 inches (267 mm ) of the stuff.

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there is always some sunshine amongst the gloom.....been raining continuously up here on the mountains. but i had a brainwave,,i blocked up the three outlets on my terrace,and within half an hour,had a huge lake(or swimming pool if you wish). going down to the town on monday to buy some fish to put in it. and a duck if i can get one.

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The local arroyo is dry most of the year, but this week for a couple of hours resembled a foaming brown torrent. The flow cut two metres off the bottom of a friend´s garden in an hour flat. Lucky for him that it doen´t run all year round.

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Apparently the reservoirs down here have increased nearly 20% in the past week. Now just over 50% which i undertand is nearly double what the were this time last year.

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Well, I am told we need a couple of months like this if we are to get levels up to where we need.

Personally I'm about rained out, and would like a nice sunny dry spell.

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I use the Charco Redondo near Los Barrios as my water gauge.

According to the following site it is running at almost 111% capacity an increase of 27% over the last week.

http://www.embalses.net/pantano-845-charco-redondo.html

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I've emptied the bucket that I keep on my garage floor for these occasions twice up to now. :ohmy::)

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After Saturday and Sunday off with lovely blue skies and warm, it's bucketing down again all day yesterday, all night last night and today again :( not sure how much longer our track can hold out :fingerscrossed:

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Smart move, Bil!:) It can only get better, keep thinking of those spring days to come! :)

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Oh yes. I can stand the rain as long as I have that guaranteed sunshine to come.

Last night we were woken up a couple of times with the rain harder than ever. At times I was wondering if it was hail, it was hitting the roof so hard.

At least I won't have to water the plants we have put in.

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A couple of years ago we were on Playa Valdevaqueros (know it? Towards Tarifa) and it was a lovely day, but suddenly rain like we have never seen before hit is. Sheltered in the restaurant for an hour or so, along with all the young surfers, then back on the beach. Weird!:)

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It´s already been three weeks bil, surely we can´t be having any more.? Last night was horrendous with the thunder and the rain.

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Nearly six years we have been here and I have never known a night like last night. The thunder and lightning just sat over us for hours. We lost our electrics but that was nothing to what some people have had. A friend in the campo cess pit completely collapsed leaving a hole 4ft deep. Terrible as they are in their eighties.

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Read post 6 on this thread by Fred James

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Thanks for that Fredbargate, just what I wanted to hear. :eek:

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Well, last night was horrendous. The rain was so bad it kept cutting me off from Jerry Springer, so I wasn't too sure who the tatooed hillbilly went with, his fat ugly wife or his fatter, uglier girlfriend. Plus I keep wondering whether the weird character who appears to have been amputated at the diaphragm is, real or a set up?

Anyway, we were woken up by what sounded like hail, and drumming rain almost non stop.

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there's quite a lot of snow on Montgo:thumbsup:

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Would that be on both sides of the mountain? :p

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dunno

I haven't been round the wrong side to look:p

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bil, are you sure you´re feeling alright? :D ;)

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Yeah. I actually googled it to see what was what, and it turns out he's a real character, stands 18 inches tall, walks about on his hands.