All Photos on this page were taken with an iPhone 3G (camera
phone).
For three hundred days a year Crete is bathed in sunshine, leaving
sixty five days a year for nature to seek its revenge.
In mid January 2010 thirty-six hours of non-stop thunderstorms
caused severe flooding and damage in many parts of the
island.
These photographs, taken a day or two after the floods subsided,
show damage to the river banks and bridges to the North of Perema
near the holiday village of Panormo. The river changed its course
after the floods, washing away roads and bridges, causing one
fatality and leaving hundreds of homes without a fresh water supply
for almost a week.