Contrary to what many of you may think it does rain in Spain – and not just on the plain! We are now into our third day of very damp, cold miserable weather. Maybe we are only about 25 kilometres from the sea, but at the moment our weather very definitely isn't Mediterranean. In fact it is more like north Wales on a bad day!
Needless to say, the dogs, cooped up in the house were going ‘stir crazy’, until in the end they ‘mugged’ me into taking them for a walk. So I got myself wrapped up, and set off from our cosy casa.
I figured that I didn’t want to loose sight of the dogs as they chased partridges and rabbits up the mist covered mountains, so I opted to go the low level circuit, around the rambla.
Now the rambla is actually a river bed, but normally it resembles a dry dusty track used as a convenient route by walkers and the occasional vehicle. Today a small stream of water trickled down the way. Once though, indeed last year, when there had been much more rain than today, I saw the rambla running with water over a metre deep. It was a swift flowing river! The big 4x4 had to turn back, but the tractor successfully negotiated its way up to the tarmac lane.
And once in the 1970’s, there was so much water in the rambla, from its many tributaries, that it inundated the town of Albox causing such devastation, that it was declared a National Disaster!
Take a look at this old film shot at the time.
Needless to say, the dogs, cooped up in the house were going ‘stir crazy’, until in the end they ‘mugged’ me into taking them for a walk. So I got myself wrapped up, and set off from our cosy casa.
I figured that I didn’t want to loose sight of the dogs as they chased partridges and rabbits up the mist covered mountains, so I opted to go the low level circuit, around the rambla.
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| The Rambla de Oria |
Now the rambla is actually a river bed, but normally it resembles a dry dusty track used as a convenient route by walkers and the occasional vehicle. Today a small stream of water trickled down the way. Once though, indeed last year, when there had been much more rain than today, I saw the rambla running with water over a metre deep. It was a swift flowing river! The big 4x4 had to turn back, but the tractor successfully negotiated its way up to the tarmac lane.
And once in the 1970’s, there was so much water in the rambla, from its many tributaries, that it inundated the town of Albox causing such devastation, that it was declared a National Disaster!
Take a look at this old film shot at the time.
This video taken of the tragedy in Albox is a such poignant reminder of the power of nature, on this day of such terrible twin disasters, of earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
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