A SUDDEN downpour hitting urbanisations in Mazarrón (Murcia) saw roads turned to rivers, cars floating away down the street, walls knocked down and swimming pools overflowing on Thursday, with further rain aggravating the problem yesterday (Friday).
Residents of several nationalities described the scene of horror that appeared out of the blue.
One British man looked on in amazement as an above-ground swimming pool was lifted up and washed away along with three semi-submerged cars.
Rubble lay everywhere as garden walls, some up to six feet in height, were brought down.
Cars and vans ended up in in swimming pools at villas, and one expatriate said the water was 'higher than her'.
Another British man said it was at least five feet deep and there were actually waves in the river that the road turned into.
The devastating aftermath made the urbanisations look as though they had been hit by a hurricane rather than rain, with chunks of walls, piles of bricks, parts of ceilings and rendering heaped up among the mud and stacked-up, overturned cars which had been written off by the floods.
