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tonyco1:
Hi Fantosseas, welcome to the Forum, We can also recount a similar story.

We were staying in Michalis & Katie's Apartments (Anatoli), above Kamini Bar (just behind Manthos Taverna), in it's slightly elevated position, and there was a ferocious Storm.
It was fantastic to view the continuous forked lightning dancing over the sea and Islands, and the thunder was deafening and crashing over the rooftops.
We were sitting in the Apartment just inside from the balcony as the rain was sheeting down at quite an angle.
We were enjoying watching natures show of shows, - - just mesmerising!

The waves were whipped up into high frenzy and we noticed the wind direction had changed towards us.
The wind blew harder into a gale and sent strong gusts of wind - which whipped up the washing (you know who) had put on the line inside the balcony to dry!
I noticed that the said washing was flying around so I reopened the door to get it.
The wind nearly knocked me back and just as I reached out for the final item, my son Mark's shorts, the wind took them and they flew!

This was followed by lightning strikes and as in Fantosseas story, it struck several of the sub-stations mounted on a wooden pole.
Fires broke out immediately in these units, and we all lost power in most of the village.

This time no fire engine as they were dealing with various other fires, so two (at least) of these sub-stations just burnt out.
Torches were the order of the day and it was a touch scary with the lightening, but quite a fun adventure that Mark still remembers!

The day after the holiday was a still calm, we surprisingly found Marks shorts in a mud pool near the Nafsika Hotel, and managed to wash them out.
It was three days before full restoration of power, but everyone just got on with things, cooking was by BBQ or bottled gas, everywhere, but it made a memorable holiday.

I have now seen storms like that half a dozen times there, but that was the daddy of them all!
We also had torrential rain one August which flooded out shops in Stef and also in Sidari.
We had hired a car luckily & when we went for a drive as there was no sun, we observed shopkeepers in Sidari,
trying to brush water out of the shops and bars, the roads were running water!

Gavlah1973:
Great tales folks, great tales. Love hearing old folk like Tony regailing  stories from the past!!!

tonyco1:
Old? it's just a state of mind!

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