Albufeira flood November 2015

Rather than use the weather topic, here is a place to put any photos and observations on the flood on November 1st. Here are some of mine to begin with, I will look through the remainder later.

It was being said, once again , that if only the council had unblocked some of the ditches and drains some of this could have been prevented but, as usual, no-one will do anything until it is too late.
This one was taken a couple of hours before the flood reached its worst.












This is the storm water outfall taking what it did across the beach.





13.28hrs



15.28hrs



This is a screen capture of a short video clip I took. I cannot upload the video here nor elsewhere. I don't do Facebook etc and my Youtube account won't let me log in.

Hi Cubsur,

http://www.facebook.com/albufeiracom

I am gutted to see all this happening only back home 3 weeks from our last trip out, i feel for all the business owners and homeowners in the old town, does anyone know if the strip or anywhere else was flooded even in part? I know they are higher up but just wondering.

There are lower ground level shops in the Hotel California Centro Commercial, and a basement shop in Forca Portugal opposite. Picadilly have basement toilets. The whole street has been destroyed. It is totally amazing that nobody was harmed. It will take a long, long time to get back to anything near normal.

Here are my pictures from this morning as yet unsorted and uncaptioned. It will take weeks to clear this up up and especially to repair the road., There is no water or power down in the old town.

http://1drv.ms/1GXC499