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Rain not quite over but now no longer torrential. After some morning showers sunlight alternates with clouds when it’s allowed a look in. And the assessment of damage begins. Reports of tornados touching down in a couple of places and also fast moving floods in some western parts of the country, including the Maronite village we visited last year, where the mukhtar said he had not witnessed similar devastation in over sixty years. Some houses rendered uninhabitable and one woman online tells of her sister arriving last night along with niece and nephew soaking wet and having been unable to salvage anything.
Wind damage as well as rain and landslides and rock falls in places. The massive sign in front of one of the supermarkets came down in the parking lot hitting a couple of cars. No deaths anywhere and reported injuries don’t seem to have been serious. A 3.5 magnitude earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.6 km north of the island but no reports of anyone taking note of it - although in yesterday’s thunderstorms it might well have been missed.
So we’ve been lucky. Too wet to go out but no leaks, no power cuts and plenty of food and drink in the flat as well as a good supply of reading material.