Hi we are due to fly out to our holiday home in Los Dolses today We are being told the roads are flooded and driving not advised. Can someone give us an update. We are driving from Alicante airport. Not sure whether to cancel as it was only weekend visit. Many thanks
As far as I know the motorway from the airport to La Zenia is open but from there down towards Cartagena there have been problems with closures. The N332 is also suffering in the usual places. Santa Pola, Orihuela (Segura has burst it's banks) and Callosa de Segura have been badly flooded with parts of Orihuela and Murcia shut off to traffic. There was a further downpour this morning which has hit the flood plain around Almoradi pretty badly with the CV905 at St Luis closed. We are in a lull now with the sun trying to get through although further storms are due and there is a red alert on until midnight. Bus services in Torrevieja are not running and we could have lighter rain for much of the day on Saturday. For those of us who have escaped flooding we are finding out how good our roofs are (or not, in my case).
It's your call but it might be worth coming if only to check your home is holding up.
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2019 12:18pm
Thanks for this. We are only coming to attend the owners AGM it will be our first as we only recently purchased our apartment. We have hired a car and our concern is driving.
Ronnie777 wrote on Fri Sep 13, 2019 12:18pm:
Thanks for this. We are only coming to attend the owners AGM it will be our first as we only recently purchased our apartment. We have hired a car and our concern is driving.
We'll be on the road to the airport and back ourselves this evening so slow and steady does it.
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2019 2:32pm
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Ap7 at the tunnel at Pilar is closed because of flood water [ over 2 .5 mts deep ..!!] small white van afloat near the entrance …!!
Alicante to Torri on AP7 is ok , neighbour has just returned .
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Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2019 5:31pm
Landed this morning at Alicante, took the n332 and there was only a slight problem at punts prims roundabout , all ok
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2019 5:38pm
Thanks. We cancelled. Only coming across for weekend returning Sunday so cancelled car hire. Lost flight but hey ho. Many thanks. Ronnie
Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2019 1:42pm
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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
Andrea MurphyPosted: Sun Sep 15, 2019 12:23am
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Be nice if they took calls or worked weekends ………..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2019 1:27pm
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Not to worry, Monday will do. Here is the information you need:
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.