A little Wet in Portugal

[zorgon]

Hope your high and dry ArMaP

[thorfourwinds]

I think that was last year.

Hope you are well, ArMaP.

[ArMaP]

I'm OK, thanks.

Where I live floods are extremely rare, as the Tagus river is too close to the sea and is much wider (2 km) than during the rest of its course.

Besides that, I live some 70 metres above the river, so I'm safe.

Although those images are from last year, I think this situation is worse, as it is more widespread, but even then far from the floods I remember when I was a kid, when we usually got two or three small towns surrounded by water for one week.

PS: I went looking for images of this event but it turned out harder than I thought, as there are many photos from this year but from one month ago. One of the reasons this time was so bad was the fact that, unlike on previous years, we have had more rain than usual, and one month ago some of the places that get flooded were already near being flooded or already flooded.

PPS: as far as I know there was only a victim, a cyclist that fell or was taken by the water (I don't really know) and two families have lost their homes on a landslide.

[astr0144]

Lake Tahoe Was Flooded With 6.4 Billion Gallons of Water in 24 Hours


This seems to be where its been having severe rain and become wet in the last day or so ! 




More than 6 billion gallons of water have poured into Lake Tahoe in less than two days, helping the lake begin to recover from four years of crushing drought.

Since midnight Monday, the lake has gone up 1.92 inches, the equivalent of 6.39 billion gallons of water, according to the National Weather Service. The water comes as a winter storm slams the Sierra, bringing several feet of snow to higher elevations and rain at lake level, which sits at roughly 6,223 feet.



The lake—the second deepest in the United States behind Oregon's Crater Lake—was hit hard this year by the drought. Over the summer, the lake was shockingly low. Many boaters were unable to get their crafts into the lake after waters pulled back from most boat launches.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a40707/lake-tahoe-64-billion-gallons-water/

[zorgon]

I think that was last year.

Yeah I noticed that after I posted it I saw one on FB but they never provide the YT link so they are hard to find and I wasn't watching the dates