A correspondent writes: “When I lived in Greece during the late 1970s, winter rains nearly always caused a problem in Athens with flash flooding due to the inadequate sewer system.
But now, even more forest has disappeared on the hills around Athens, and with extreme precipitation events, this is what happens.”
Once that clip finishes, others will appear and you can click on a series of 5 or 6 more that are even more spectacular. The Greeks apparently have all opted for the “motorboat option” on their vehicles, and drive through water with gusto. A really sad scene is a street market that got flooded three feet deep—-hundreds of pieces of fruit floating while people clean up. And note the red van with the “pump out your basement” crew in one clip—-they arrive after a flood recedes, park their van and set up their pumps—-just in time for a bigger flood to arrive and wipe them out.
And as was said on a long ago Crock post—-“Coming to a backyard near you”. And we will all continue to say “As long as it’s not always in MY backyard and it goes away, I won’t get too worried”.
Monitoring of what became Hurricane Gonzalo began on Oct 10 in the Caribbean – from where it traveled far off the US Atlantic coast to Newfoundland – before its “extra-tropical remnants” crossed Europe as it slowly proceeded to its ultimate destination in the Aegean Sea on Oct 24. Gonzalo caused a lot of weather before it reached Athens.