In La Herradura, where 90 litres per square metre of rain fell in the space of 24 hours, the barrancos did their favourite party trick and spewed mud and vegetation onto the beach road.

And the municipal swimming pool, cleverly disguised as the Centro Cívico, flooded yet again. Let’s face it, the two water pumps that operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week to keep the water table out of the Auditorium didn’t have much chance against the rainfall.

(News: Herradura, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)