Any info on flooding in Catral please?

If you're concerned about a specific area of Catral best you say so.

Town itself is OK, was there yesterday, but OH mentioned that according to some Facetwit page or group at least one Urb was being warned to prepare for evacuation but didn't say which. 

After a respite yesterday afternoon and through the night another storm has just rolled in (5am) and it's pouring down yet again, the thunder and lightning seems centred over that way. 

Thanks for that, we live on Camino de la Borda but are in Malaga and delaying our return till we know it is safe to do so. Any info ongoing would be really appreciated.

That sounds horrendous RayD.  Hope people are brought to safety.  Please update here when you can.  

Tell everybody this please:

Hi 

FLOOD DAMAGE and INSURANCE

CARS and insurance for flood damage

Just in case you do not already know, if you have fully comprehensive cover on your car you are paying a small amount each month to the Consortio. The Insurance will not pay for your car repairs for the Gota Fria but the Corsortio will. You need to make a claim with the Consortio. We only found this out when we were caught out in the last Gota Fria earlier this year when our car was water logged. The Consortio paid out - we had no problem.

HOUSE and insurance for flood damage.

Exactly the same applies as above. If you have House and Contents insurance you are also paying a small amount each year to the Consortio, so you make your claim with the Consortio - as same as you would for the car above.

Need any further advice come back to me and I will look up details of our claim with the Consortio so that you have telephone numbers, addresses of where to claim etc., BUT your Insurance Company should help you with the relevant claim - must add here ours did not help us, but another insurance company did. Hence we changed insurance companies when the car insurance ran out.

Good luck, Remember, if you are insured you are covered, do not accept that you are not, you are paying the Consortio every month so you are entitled to claim.

If you are not insurance, sorry I cannot help you.

Good luck

If you need the address etc., of the Consortio let me know and I will look back over my paperwork for you.  Good luck,

Thank you. Very helpful. Hopefully tomorrow we will try to get nearer home. 

Hi Denver,

The Consorcio de Compensación de Seguros (the Insurance Compensation Consortium, or CCS) is a compulsory Government catastrophic risk insurance in Spain. It is an insurance tax charged on prescribed classes of insurance issued by private insurers, providing cover against a series of extraordinary perils and "political risks”

Note: This Government scheme covers direct physical damage only. It is expected that a company ensures their commercial insurance policy covers them against any resulting Business Interruption losses if necessary.

Below is a link to The Consortio web page [in English] – you have to make the claim yourself, do not expect your insurance company to do it.  Mine said they did it, but the Consortio said they never received anything from my insurance company.

https://www.consorseguros.es/web/en/ambitos-de-actividad/seguros-de-riesgos-extraordinarios/mas-informacion/el-recargo-y-su-tarifa

It’s hard to find words.  Sorry to hear that news.  Very stressful for you. Have people food etc at the school?  Hope it’s a precaution for now.   

Thank 🙏🙏 you. Much appreciated...