Well, as you all know, the walk home is 30 minutes. Ten minutes walking and my pants up to my calves were wet. I took some pictures of the pedestrian avenue where everyone was walking with umbrellas and pondered at how jammed up the traffic was on either side. As I got to the end I realized why! The road ahead was completely flooded! There was about two feet of water covering the road. Ironically, as the rain streamed down onto the streets, the fountain continued spraying its water into the air. I took pictures of the cars (and a man on a motorcycle) trying to push through, and then had to find an alternate route home. Luckily, it wasn't too complicated.

And the rain kept pouring down. Half-way home, I started wondering what Ima (my senora) was going to say when she saw how wet I was. The water kept creeping up my pants, and my feet were sloshing in my hiking boots. I put my backpack in front of me so it wouldn't get so wet. It was crazy. Still people were actually friendlier in the rain than they normally are -- those of us who were out in it and getting soaked looked at each other and smiled in mutual disbelief at our craziness!

Finally, I reached home, pretty much soaked from head to toe. My pants were soaked up to my pockets, my back was soaked, and the inside and outside of my boots -- like I said before, I had water sloshing in them! I must have been a sight walking in the house. Still, Ima didn't get mad, although she tskked at me as she told me to take of my boots before going upstairs to change. At lunch, on the news, we saw footage of the flooded area where I had walked.

Even though I got so wet, it was worth walking home, just to see the people out on the streets and to see the amounts of water streaming down the streets!

(On a more serious note: Luckily no-one in Granada was badly hurt, however in some of the towns on the coast, near Nerja, there was even more flooding, and someone was killed. The damage was horrendous, and the footage of cars being swept down the streets was startling.)

Rain streaming on the roof of the CLM

Pedestrians with umbrellas... traffic at the end of the avenue...

Wow! So that is why there are traffic jams! How am I going to get across?

Look at the motorcylist!

Completely flooded on all sides.

Around the block from the avenue. The fountain can be seen in the background.

A flooded side street

Water gushing into "El Rio Sin Agua"

The river that usually only has a trickle of water, gushing brown with rain water.