North Tenerife on Yellow Alert for heavy rain - Page 3

cinnamon · 17-11-09, 01:32

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Originally Posted by Janet

None being reported at present, but will keep updating.

It's amazing how quickly it can come down here when it decides too. I remember once watching torrential rain here and for all the world it was as though someone up above had turned a full bath upside down. It was literally a deluge.

remember the "gota fria" in march 2002 when 8 people died in santa cruz?

Janet · 17-11-09, 01:34

Yep! Was here at the time.

John Sharples · 17-11-09, 04:01

What fabulous rain. I sat in the garden, under a large brolly with a large wine and enjoyed the superb large raindrops and thunder and lightning.
Doesn't nature work in a wonderful way. It filled me with a melancholy like I've never known before.
A lovely day. What a pity we don't have a few more like that

Janet · 17-11-09, 09:30

Good to hear you're OK John.

They're forecasting more of the same today, with the yellow alert remaining in place. C7

tenerifewomen · 17-11-09, 10:52

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Originally Posted by John Sharples

What fabulous rain. I sat in the garden, under a large brolly with a large wine and enjoyed the superb large raindrops and thunder and lightning.
Doesn't nature work in a wonderful way. It filled me with a melancholy like I've never known before.
A lovely day. What a pity we don't have a few more like that

Because the islands not geared up for it John!!! have to agree with you though I love it when it rains!! really miss the storms we used to get every september when we used to live in Mallorca!!!

Chuffy · 17-11-09, 10:55

Sunny morning here at the moment, but then it was clear blue skies until the afternoon yesterday. There was lots of rain during the night.

Like John says, it was spectacular (not a view shared by those who left their cars in the car park in the barranco behind Playa Jardin).

It was like the monsoon rains you get in the far east.

We had to drive a friend to his home near Los Realejos as his wife couldn't pick him up because the roads to their house was blocked off. It was between 8 & 9 and the motorway was gridlocked. We kept to the back roads where there wasn't much of a problem apart from streams of debris every so often.

Sounds as though the south escaped, but my sister who's on holiday in Playa de la Arena said that she got caught in heavy rain on the beach.

cinnamon · 17-11-09, 12:24

good to hear our "nothern" members are safe and sound.

Periklês · 17-11-09, 12:44

The weather in the North of Tenerife has reached national news in Spain, and here is a little video report showing several people who are clearly unable for some reason to see the beauty of the event.

Chuffy · 17-11-09, 13:40

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Originally Posted by Periklês

The weather in the North of Tenerife has reached national news in Spain, and here is a little video report showing several people who are clearly unable for some reason to see the beauty of the event.

Do I detect a note of sarcasm there?

Thanks for pointing out the 'other' side of the coin. I never thought of the 'downside' to nature's show when I was driving through rivers of boulders trying to get a friend home, or watching the water streaming down the inside of my chimney and my neighbour struggling to throw a tarpaulin over the whole of his small house to try to keep the water out.

Chuffy · 17-11-09, 15:38

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Originally Posted by Periklês

The weather in the North of Tenerife has reached national news in Spain, and here is a little video report showing several people who are clearly unable for some reason to see the beauty of the event.

Do I detect a note of sarcasm there?

Thanks for pointing out the 'other' side of the coin. I never thought of the 'downside' to nature's show when I was driving through rivers of boulders trying to get a friend home, or watching the water streaming down the inside of my chimney and my neighbour struggling to throw a tarpaulin over the whole of his small house to try to keep the water out.