Paphos Life

Luckily Paphos is in the Med and not in the Atlantic... but I have never seen Hotel balconies going like that. Imagine Paphos Sea Front gets waves half of that size...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gxg1dqVYaI

Max

Sea front property would devalue, inland will increase, In time when sea levels rise that is what will happen.

Not as bad as Tenerife but this happened on Friday 13th 2006



https://youtu.be/YvAJ70AGKV8

Uncle D wrote: ↑Tue Nov 20, 2018 10:14 am Sea front property would devalue, inland will increase, In time when sea levels rise that is what will happen.

Fortunately, not in my lifetime!


Shane

There are times you stop and film and there are times you run.

Not possible from weather, but a major tsunami is possible but unlikely in the event of the Cyprian Fault undergoing an important subduction. I think the last time it happened was about 1600 years ago. Seismologists consider the fault as quiet at this time.

memory man wrote: ↑Tue Nov 20, 2018 10:42 am Not as bad as Tenerife but this happened on Friday 13th 2006



https://youtu.be/YvAJ70AGKV8

I hadn't seen that. Thanks.

Devil wrote: ↑Tue Nov 20, 2018 12:41 pm Not possible from weather, but a major tsunami is possible but unlikely in the event of the Cyprian Fault undergoing an important subduction. I think the last time it happened was about 1600 years ago. Seismologists consider the fault as quiet at this time.

I think we are safe in Polemi.

Some interesting info on the storms in Paphos in 2006.

http://rochfordessex.com/informer/buy-t ... ia-storms/

I was here then. This footage looks like the floods which swept downhill after very heavy rain and engulfed the ground floor of Corallia Beach Hotel at Coral Beach. At that time there was a building site on the opposite site of the road which lacked proper drains. After that near disaster Corallia took remedial measures to make sure it never happens again.
Lukily no one was injured as I recall, at least not there.

Dee

I remember seeing a photo on CL of the Mitsubishi dealers on the Polis Road and a torrent of water coming down like a river. The cars on the forecourt were up to the top of their tyres in water.

Mouse Wrote-

We should be ok as st George's hotel and Laura hotel will shield us quite well


But what if the Ice Cap on the Troodos melts ?

I had moved into my house in the July,when this torrent arrived in the early hours of Friday 13 October 2006. I got up around 5.30 a.m., made a cuppa and was reading by torchlight. I heard a noise of water running, and eventually realised it was running down my stairs. And over the staircase, onto furniture and fittings below.

On investigation I found it was pouring in from my rear bedroom balcony, and my shoes were covered by the water level in my bedroom! I dragged my new white bath towels out of the cupboard and began the mopping up. Wow!! Two hours later I was still at it! Friends came round eventually to see if I was ok and couldn't believe the water cascading into the house.

Rang the developer to be told, yes we do get heavy rain here sometimes, it will drain away. After a few expletive deletives she grasped the seriousness of the situation and said she would send somebody round. Didn't happen, so on the Saturday night my neighbour and I were on our balconies in the early hours scooping water off and down into the patio below.

Nobody appeared over the weekend, Monday morning after many more expletive deletives a team arrived and began throwing debris off the roofs, debris which had been blocking outlet pipes. They then found a problem with the drain from the rear of my roof to the supposed outlet on the back patio. It had been plastered over!! No matter what amount of rain fell on my bedroom balcony it was never ever going to drain off!! They had to drill the wall and reestablish the drain.

This was a ridiculous situation which should never have occurred. Regardless of my blocked drain, there should never have been the debris left on the roof blocking all the drains. Incidentally, when the workmen cleared the debris, they simply threw it over walls onto roads and grassed areas, then drove off and left it!! I had never seen women behavung like this in my life.

Sadly, it's the root of so many problems here, poor and unsupervised work, with absolutely no checks on quality.

I was lucky, it was simply mess in the house which I eventually cleared up, but a family lost their lives in that storm.

We had a similar problem during that storm with the upstairs terrace drains blocked. The water came in under the patio doors, cascading down the stairs flooding the whole house; took nearly three years to sort out. We had mould a metre high as water was lying between the pipes of the underfloor heating; had to get waterproofing injected into all the walls to stop the damp rising.
A nightmare.

Jim