What a storm!

I remember the first week we moved to Spain we had a few storms, thunder, lightening, torrential rain - the works. Over the months we have been here we've had storms from time to time, normally after a hot sunny day.

Monday started off hot and sunny, we were on the golf course bathed in sunshine for several hours before the clouds started to gather over the hills and I said it looked as if it may rain.

What an understatement that was!

It was already getting dark so it was difficult to know how much the clouds added to the darkness but the rain came suddenly, huge big drops like someone was tipping a bucket of water over your head. Then the distant rumbles of thunder and the occasional flash of lightening.

Then it turned into a full blown electrical storm. The lightening was so frequent there wasn't time for thunder in between. Massive bolts of lightening striking down through the sky and hitting ground somewhere not too far away. All the roads were awash with rivers running down them. The house electric went off and we lit candles as we knew even if it came back on, it would go off again soon.

We were planning to go bowling and decided we would still go and hope there was power to the centre. As we drove through the storm it became obvious how big the storm was. There was lightening out to sea, there was lightening over the mountains. It lit the sky as bright as midday. It was a cracker.

As we arrived in Aguilas we passed by a Rambla, the dry river bed was a good 4 or 5 feet deep with rain water and flowing at an alarming speed towards the sea - anyone or anything in the Rambla would be washed out to sea with out a doubt.

The storm continued for a few hours, but the power was on at the Bowling Alley and so we were away from it for a couple of hours and when we left the underground carpark, the rain had stopped, the skies were clear and the roads were drying out.

Tuesday morning was dry, cloudless and sunny - the storm a memory for us but I can imagine some people would be in for a day of cleaning up.

Storms over here are awesome!