mrodoc
Well-known member
It is sobering to see the effects of a serious downpour. I was once coming back through Spain and it started to rain. The motorway to France was closed and when we turned to go back a landslide had blocked the road we had driven down (3m of mud and boulders over 100m). We had an unpleasant night in a leaky Landrover and when I clambered out in the morning the previous dry flood channel below (think Los Angeles storm channels) had lorries and gigantic paperbales bouncing down it in 6m deep water. Power out etc etc. Fortunately the way to the motorway was open again so we got out but the town of Bilbao looked like a disaster area.