Well, as always, the day after rain there's almost no sign it ever was wet. The sunny street has an innocent who-me-you-must-have-been-dreaming-of-England look. Sort of like the look the blue lake has the spring morning after the ice goes. It's always been sunny.
Although this morning's Cyprus Mail has stories of flooding in Limassol, down the coast from us, that will run to hundreds of thousands of euros in clean up and repairs, with tales of people standing on restaurant chairs and tables to escape the water and cars being submerged. They say that infrastructure is not the problem, but this seems unlikely as it doesn't take torrential rains here to flood the streets here, and J's observation is that the drains are often not at the lowest point. We are interested in accounts, as after every rainfall cum flooding, of large numbers of householders calling the fire department to pump out their basements. And our UK friends tell us this would be standard practice in Britain. Can only imagine Canadian firemen having a good laugh before advising one to head to Canadian Tire and buy a pump.
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