07-10-2007, 23:13
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04/10 storms with video
On Thursday, about 5ish we went for a beer in cafe 1919. We noticed the waiters looking up at the sky, it was still very sunny. We started to amble back along the front and saw all the restaurants clearing all the tables that had just been laid for dinner and folding down umbrellas. By the time we had reached the Tex-Mex place on the front a thick black menacing cloud was bubbling up in the mountains. The lights all flickered and mobile phone signals went, our pace quickened slightly. Very quickly it went dark and the sky went a wierd muddy green colour. The cloud was a thick band of black and it was swirling down towards the ground. We arrived back to the Oro playa just as the storm unleashed it's full force, All the power went out and the storm picked up chairs, tables etc and hurled them acrosss the pool area, The pool side was cleared quickly by the staff. We watched the storm batter down. I have never seen weather like it. The storm passed in about 30 mins leaving water falls on the tramantana, flooded roads and several restaurants with floods. damage and carnage along the front. Check out my video below taken from the Oro Playa which is also posted on You Tube. Incidently, we ventured out for dinner, taking the back road to the square, avoiding floods and had a great Indian watching the clean up. we were told that the tide earlier that day was the highest they had seen in 5 years and had been caused by the storm, it washed away a couple of the sand castle sculptures and the odd hamacas, so a word of warning, if you see an unusually high tide, it could be an early warning of a massive storm. We also heard that when the storm landed in Palma it was a Tornado, I think it still was when it reached Puerto Pollensa. The following morning the weather was glorious and stayed that way for the rest of week!
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