You know, I really don't know!! Believe that?! But I wouldn't be at all surprised.
I watched TeleMadrid this morning for 2 hours and the only thing they showed the whole time, ON ALL CHANNELS, were the congressional debates between Rajoy and Zapatero about the state of "La Crisis Económica".
So after 2 hours of these two guys verbally beating each other up I went to the gym and haven't turned on the TV since.
When I walked to the gym it was an odd sight. You could barely see the ground on the sidewalks because they were completely covered with leaves pelted down by the storm. Leaves and small branches clogged the storm sewer intakes. Mud covered some intersections and cross walks where it was at lower level.
I'd searched for photos or video of the floods and hail storm but couldn't find any - yet. It's too early for these things to show up on search engine searches. I did a search of the MSNBC.com site and got not related results.
But it's not too strange for the metro stations to flood. It doesn't happen often but I know it's happened at least once already this year in some stations.
We had lightning and some rain and lightning at about 11pm but it stopped within 1 hour. Then at 1am I was awakened by some HARD rain. First only small pea-sized hail stones fell for the first 10 minute. That was cool. But then it soon sounded like the sky was literally falling when the hail stones reached marble size. That is to say, it was marble-sized in diameter because they were HALVED! It was like a marble was cut perfectly in half.
I was sure they were going to break the windows but they didn't. And when it hails like that it makes the strangest noise when it's falling on asphalt in the city as opposed to on the dirt & grass in the country - where I'm more used to hearing in in Ohio.
I looked outside and with the hard rain were all these hail stones intermixed. The ground was white and the rushing waters were carrying their millions of little hail stones along with it along the ditches and road's edge. I stuck my head out the terraza only for a second because I feared one of these stones would hit me in the eye, blinding me forever. For the next hour after the hail stopped I heard (and saw) some nearby neighbors shoveling and sweeping hail on their terrazas into tall piles. It was wild! Some friends told me today that their clay/ceramic plant pots on their terraza were destroyed too.
I was very excited to see and experience this rare storm here in Madrid. I really miss them. We had storms of all kinds with great frequency but here it's rare to even have a lot of wind, let alone thunder and lightning or hail!!!
Saludos, MadridMan
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