In Greece, the islands prey to a unique storm – Liberation

Angeliki Pavlaki, a teacher from Paros Island, in the Cyclades, still can’t believe it. “The rain started around 12:30 pm, and it fell in Nausa for four to five o’clock. There have been landslides, roads are blocked. Some places are devastated… ” A few kilometers away, on another Greek island, Mykonos, the images are the same: downpour of water that descends, taking on their passage everything that drags in the streets, from cars to trash, passing by the tables and chairs of the terraces. “It was a disaster. Flots of brown water were hitting the streets »explains Tasos Giannopoulos, present on this island at that time. No victim has been reported for the time being.

The inhabitants that Release At the same time by phone are unanimous: they had never seen that. Since Monday, Cyclades have been prey to exceptional bad weather, accompanied by strong winds that can go up to 74 km/h. Nicolas Stefanou, who lives on the side of a hill of Paros, says that « The rain fell for more than three hours, but that we heard incessant streams until the early morning. » The quenching station has been damaged, while the island faces water supply problems. « In Naoussa (one of the fishermen’s villages that has become a seaside resort, editor’s note), The river came out of its bed at the level of the estuary « resumes Nicolas Stefanou, very invested