Now onto what’s wrong around town… The Mayor, Carlos Rojas, or ‘Charlie Red’ if you prefer, which is an embarrassing colour affiliation for a conservative, of course – has admitted that there is no proposed date for public construction work to prevent further flooding in the municipality.
He claimed that, in his opinion, he’d done a pretty good job of getting the town through the worst of the flooding and scoffs at socialist whinging, pointing out that they – the PSOE – did bugger all during the 25 years that they were in the municipal driving seat to sort things out. In other words, who are they to complain, if they did nothing during the quarter of the century that they were in power? Quite a sterling point, you must admit, if it is true. But, when you are in the driving seat, there is no sense in pointing out how badly others drive as an excuse for not getting off the driveway, is it?
The fact is, when the emergency measures conclude, such as opening earth banks to let flood water pass, there’s nothing else in the offing, which is hardly reassuring for waterlogged tax payers and voters down Playa Granada way. Amongst the aforementioned, we can safely include El Restaurante Katena and the campsite, for example. And with the last weekend of the month upon us, as we pen this article, the only traffic on El Camino del Pelaíllo will be of the floating variety.
Locals can stamp around in their wellies all they like, directing angry flotillas of rubber ducks at the Town Hall, but they will probably be facing the same soggy adversities after this autumn, if next winter takes after its predecessor.
The Mayor, in a verbal manner, turned his pocket linings inside out as an explanation. But hang on a moment, how is it that all those flats went up along Playa Granada without the necessary infrastructure in place? Surely diligent town planning foresees the logical necessities of drainage? Is it that the masterminds that oversaw construction above ground, overlooked the fact that they are building on what was marshland not so very long ago and flooded sugarcane terrain until very recently? Don’t expect to see a flurry of resignation offers in the near future, Folks.