Thursday, 10 February 2022

Poros Weather






A flooded waterfront.  The sea came pouring in.
This is the parking area downtown.  Everyone got their car out there before it got covered in salt water



A photo taken a while ago but the weather is the same today.  Maybe not such high winds.  There's a car ferry out at sea which couldn't dock.  It went up and down the harbour for half an hour before making landfall.

Now and again we are completely cut-off.  Quite exciting.  It's usually only for 24 hours, or less.  The kids that go to the Technical College  (grandson included) on the mainland are happy.  Their little water taxi man phones their school and gets them off a day of lessons without absentee demerits.


Another day.  The sun has come out.  It's nippy but lovely in the sun.  Looks like its going to be a fine weekend.  Time for coffee on the waterfront, maybe





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  1. JayCee10 February 2022 at 07:24

    Island life can be challenging when the weather is against you. When our ferry can't sail our supermarket shelves empty pretty fast.

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    1. local alien10 February 2022 at 10:55

      You are truly cut-off . We just play at it. You always need a good supply of toilet paper, not just during a pandemic.

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  2. Susan Heather10 February 2022 at 09:31

    The sky in the top photo looks great. Hope it is fine for your coffee on the waterfront.

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    1. local alien10 February 2022 at 10:55

      The sky was really blue. My daughter took the photo. Must have been the day after the storm and the sea surge.

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  3. angela10 February 2022 at 12:51

    That would be exciting for kids to have a day off school. Not much gets our kids out of school we don’t have such wild weather we can’t drive although once the highway got flooded and the bus couldn’t get through but both my kids had finished by then. They were very disappointed lol

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    1. local alien11 February 2022 at 08:20

      The kids are always excited to have a day off school. There have been lots of those recently what with virus, snow and storms. And now it's almost Easter 😂

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  4. It's.a.crazy.world10 February 2022 at 18:43

    Such a beautiful blue sky! I sure would not want my car to sit in that sea water ~ last week we were having to drive on the snow and ice, that's no fun either.

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    1. local alien11 February 2022 at 08:21

      Salt water is not for cars. But it doesn't happen often. We wanted snow too but none of that this year

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  5. Cro Magnon10 February 2022 at 20:32

    Since I returned to the UK last October, the weather has been really very mild. No rain to speak of, and no sub-zero weather. This morning I see that it is 1 C, so hat and gloves will accompany my morning dog walk.

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    1. local alien11 February 2022 at 08:22

      We've had a lot of rain and it was a very cold January but I think winter is more or less over now
      1oC is darn cold. Freezing!

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  6. At Home In New Zealand11 February 2022 at 00:49

    There seems to be always something exciting happening on your Island - certainly makes for an interesting life :)

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    1. local alien11 February 2022 at 08:23

      Even though it's so quiet now you're right there's always something happening, or rumours that something is going on 🤣🤣

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  7. Yael11 February 2022 at 02:47

    We have the same weather here, but without the sea ..

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  8. coffeeontheporchwithme11 February 2022 at 05:54

    I guess a water taxi cancellation is kind of like a snow day here when buses are cancelled. :) -Jenn

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    1. local alien11 February 2022 at 08:24

      Yup, snow day. We had a few of those too....without the snow. Kids have had loads of breaks

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  9. northsider 11 February 2022 at 08:02

    You could add another verse to Downtown by Petula Clark for Poros.

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  10. kiwikid12 February 2022 at 14:14

    You certainly get some changes in the weather there.

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