Gönyeli Dam has spilled

cidem



Joined: 08/09/2009
Posts: 92

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 14:12

hi everyone please becarefull on the roads and don't use alsancak,karmi and bogaz road..Gönyeli dam has just spilled and the water is running through the roads to lefkoşa so boğaz will be closed for a while..there is a bad fog aswell..Dikmen road is really dangerous to use..

if its possible dont even get out of your houses...

god help us..

andrew4232



Joined: 04/07/2009
Posts: 1543

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 14:31

its hell up here in Karmi so cold and the rain running like rivers

Geoff1131MK11


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 396

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 14:33

We're all doomed i tell you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

andrew4232



Joined: 04/07/2009
Posts: 1543

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 14:37

its the 'dam' greeks thats doing it hehe

zerochlor


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Posts: 4024

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 14:39

...... ...............

cidem



Joined: 08/09/2009
Posts: 92

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 14:43

lefkoşa industry area is all under the water. 1.5meters high water...

malsancak


Joined: 23/08/2009
Posts: 2874

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 14:44

In January the GCs were accused of diverting flood water to Güzelyurt. I wonder what it is like there now?

andrew4232



Joined: 04/07/2009
Posts: 1543

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 14:46

i can see more AID will be needed from Turkey hope they can spare it

TRNCVaughan


Joined: 27/04/2008
Posts: 4578

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 14:47

There have been several mud/rockslides on the Incesu to Malatya road.

Baspinar Bob


Joined: 15/02/2008
Posts: 618

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 14:51

TRNCVaughan



I hope you had your hatches battened down lol.



Bob.

cidem



Joined: 08/09/2009
Posts: 92

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 14:54

şirin evler dam has spilled too.



hope the rain stops soon..the news is that the rain will continue on saturday and sunday too..

harita


Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 1343

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 15:02

the rain will continue on saturday and sunday too.. Not if you believe AccuWeather.com

Kantara


Joined: 28/05/2007
Posts: 661

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 15:03

Does anybody know anything about the situation in Girne? I have to go after work from the Colony area to the Astro supermarket direction. I don't know if to go through the centre or the road above...

tarry67


Joined: 16/05/2008
Posts: 1053

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 15:03

Just had Noars Ark pass my window and I am upstairs................ Dont panic Mannering.

authentichoccie


Joined: 09/01/2008
Posts: 481

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 15:10

Tarry - Thought you lived in a bungalow hun?? Or do you mean your standing on tip toe again!?

scruff


Joined: 15/07/2008
Posts: 1070

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 15:12

msg. 12

H.

Check out the BBC 5 day forecast & look at the weather maps for over Cyprus. Looks like lots more to come on Sunday too.

J

HildySmith


Joined: 02/07/2009
Posts: 1708

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 15:12

We were heading to lefkosia this morning and it took an hour to get to Girne - we gave up and returned home. Flooding everywhere. police, JCB's, fire trucks all over the place.

harita


Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 1343

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 15:25

Hi scruff

Check this out .. Been pretty accurate in the past ..



http://www.accuweather.com/world-forecast.asp?partner=netweather&traveler=0&locCode=MEA|CY|CY002|KYRENIA&metric=1

kiwikid


Joined: 18/08/2008
Posts: 496

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 15:53

I'm living in Gonyeli, the effects of the Dame has just reached us, watched the river at the end of our road that has never had water in it in the 10 years I have lived here go from nothing to a raging river in 10 mins water rising as i speak about metre every 5 mins. house at the end of road has just had the water go over the garden wall and in to the house, old couple living here has just been evacuated. This is not a joke, just glad I'm living on the second floor. Husband stuck in Girne looking for somewhere to sleep tonight I think as all roads home have been closed.

Angela

billyboy1


Joined: 01/06/2009
Posts: 590

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 15:57

Keep safe every body...thinking of you all

keithr


Joined: 20/08/2008
Posts: 720

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 16:00

Good luck all and keep safe....

Oleander


Joined: 03/05/2009
Posts: 302

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 17:26

Malsancak wrote:

"In January the GCs were accused of diverting flood water to Güzelyurt. I wonder what it is like there now?"



Do you think that was the case? The Turkish Cypriot press went there and reported from the scene, saying local people had been told to blame the GCs and accusing the TRNC of not building flood defences to protect its own people!

greylag


Joined: 08/04/2009
Posts: 1110

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 17:30

Oleander,

Not really the time for he said she said and general accusations is it.There are alot of frightened people out there at the moment so show a little respect please,

Grey.

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 17:31

RE msg 22, Oleander FROM LARNACA: (...) Do you think that was the case? The Turkish Cypriot press went there and reported from the scene, saying local people had been told to blame the GCs and accusing the TRNC of not building flood defences to protect its own people! (...)

=> Again you try to score a miserable point. Go away if you have nothing positive to add - which you don't.

Maz


Joined: 29/03/2009
Posts: 1924

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 17:38

Well I am not sure whether we blame ~Allah, Jehovah or the Christian God for all this, but Someone is chucking it down on the 'righteous and the unrighteous'. I felt sorry for myself this morning as the kitchen floooded, but having heard of the awful stories of what other people have suffered, I now feel guilty. Just because I was paddling in freezing water with a saucepan to try to clear some of the water, and with no one to help my 80 year old 'man' and me, and with no electric, I thought 'Why me?' But now I see it is everyone, so don't anybody DARE moan in the summer about lack of water.

And yes, there is a huge piece of concrete across the road at Incescu, but I am told it is now cleared. Won't test that one until tomorrow - if I go out.

I just hope in the places worst hit there is some kind of community spirit, cos there ain't one up here! I really miss that from all the places I have lived, but just regard life here as another part of a learning curve. Blessings all.

proger1



Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 2919

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 17:38

I am curious Oleander, where do you get your information from, actually don't bother to reply.



This post is about important information as Grey has said and I am sure Dutch is right, whatever you add will be negative.

boglefan



Joined: 07/06/2009
Posts: 511

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 17:39

I hope you all stay safe. Hard to imagine just how bad it is over there. Hope the rain goes off soon and Kiwikid hope your hubby finds somewhere safe to spend the night.

deecyprus4


Joined: 27/07/2008
Posts: 3452

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 17:43

Keep safe and warm everyone, we are thinking of you all x

nikegirl


Joined: 19/02/2010
Posts: 162

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 17:45

thinking of you all.



apparently the road to kyrenia is shut at the lefkosa roundabout, police have blocked it. the village road to bogaz is now closed as well.



take care.

racoonchic



Joined: 17/11/2008
Posts: 3223

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 17:50

hey cidem with a partner as nice lookin as yours its a perfect excuse to stay in and get warm together lol

Oleander


Joined: 03/05/2009
Posts: 302

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 18:01

Grey msg 37,



I was asking Mal for his opinion on a specific point and not inviting comment from others. To talk about "showing respect" is as irrelevant as it is ridiculous.

greylag


Joined: 08/04/2009
Posts: 1110

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 18:14

Come on, you were just gloating over peoples misfortunes Oleander.You are boring me now so lets leave it at that,

Grey.

Deniz1


Joined: 28/07/2009
Posts: 3829

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 18:25

Every body stay home please!!

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 18:26

Come on guys - let's keep it on track and hope that no one has been hurt.

greylag


Joined: 08/04/2009
Posts: 1110

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 18:27

I have done now No1,

Grey.

malsancak


Joined: 23/08/2009
Posts: 2874

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 19:01

Oleander, I read it in a newspaper and I was concerned that if they were having problems then perhaps now it would be even worse. My opinion is irrelevant and under the circumstances the cause is too.

banjo


Joined: 28/01/2009
Posts: 113

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 19:25

Hi Çidem

Thank you for sharing this informations with us. I feel sad for all that is affected by this heavy, heavy rain, doing so much damage to our surroundings.

Banjo

Oleander


Joined: 03/05/2009
Posts: 302

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 20:00

Thanks Mal.

Teresa


Joined: 21/11/2007
Posts: 1018

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 20:27

Just sat and watched the area in Lefkosa where my mother in law lives and they are waist deep in water, looks like Lefkosa has been worst hit but with the rain still falling god only knows what will happen or how many will lose their homes tonight.

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 20:54

teresa i hope to god she and everybody else is safe and no one looses thier homes. When I lived in Worcestershire we got flooded constantly, we were all provided with sandbags. Do the authorties here have any preventative measures.

madturk


Joined: 25/03/2009
Posts: 217

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 20:55

maybe now all those greedy stupid builders and planning officers, now know why ,nature has carved natural ravines in the landscape to direct water to the sea. it might not rain for another 5 years , but when the rains come again , please stop all building and dumping in ravines.

the goverment should be sued for letting this happen

Teresa


Joined: 21/11/2007
Posts: 1018

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 21:12

Liz they are not prepared for this kind of weather, feel like i just want to go and get her but no way of getting through. The main hospital is in chaos, no electric, generators are all located on the ground floors so not much use, they have moved patients from the lower floors up but no beds to put them in.

All the emergency services are working flat out and kibtek are doing their best to keep the electric on but they just said on tv that some areas are being cut off for safety reasons.

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 21:27

Teresa, please keep us informed about this disaster from the good sources you have. Maybe you can find out which area has been hit worst so the expat community can offer help soonest (money, clothing etc?).

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 21:29

Sorry, Teresa, I saw your post "Blanket Appeal for flood victims" too late.

greylag


Joined: 08/04/2009
Posts: 1110

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 21:30

This is terrible.Has anyone known this to happen on such a large scale before,

Grey

Teresa


Joined: 21/11/2007
Posts: 1018

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 21:32

Dutch just posted a blanket appeal, thought that would be a start, worst areas in Lefkosa are taskinkoy, gocmenkoy, gonyeli, the hospital area but there are also very bad hit areas like hamitkoy on the lefoksa ercan road. Mother in law is in Taskinkoy and she is now moving upstairs and kibtek are turning power off for safety reasons.

It is a bit early to find out exactly what is needed but will make some calls tomorrow but blankets will be needed urgently so please help if you can.

Albert5



Joined: 19/12/2009
Posts: 59

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 21:55

A big FF for the TRNC government and many municipalities' mayors. The Karaoglanoglu muhtar was asking for an interview with the Girne mayor for years, to talk about this issue. Now it's too late. He (the muhtar) said that the mayor is wasting the money in things that are not important. Not to mention the corruption at Girne municipality. They could make a lot of things to prevent this, but they are only thinking about their money. Sad to say, the Turkish-Cypriots are drowning in their our ignorance.

Albert5



Joined: 19/12/2009
Posts: 59

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 21:56

own, not "our", sorry

proger1



Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 2919

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 21:57

Yes Albert, that helps so much

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 22:06

RE msg 47, Albert5: (...) The Karaoglanoglu muhtar was asking for an interview with the Girne mayor for years, to talk about this issue. (...)

=> Hmm. A couple of weeks ago I walked into the Girne townhall, told the Mayors secretary that I would like to see the Mayor and could walk straight into his room to discuss my issue. And a TC muhtar needs years - without success..?

aripointer


Joined: 01/07/2008
Posts: 189

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 22:08

Record shop in Girne has now out of the CD "Yellow Submarine" but plenty of copies of "Here Comes the Sun". AP

Albert5



Joined: 19/12/2009
Posts: 59

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 22:26

Hans, this is what the K'oglu muhtar said few hours ago on BRT :-?



Sorry for my comment, I'm just angry with the way TRNC politicians "use" the money. They could prevent (at least in part) these disasters, but they prefer to send the money to their own pockets. And the worst is that everybody knows it and nobody reacts.



Anyway, let's hope that they take measures for next years (if this is caused by the global warming, then in the future could be still worse).

arrry



Joined: 19/08/2008
Posts: 1235

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 22:31

Record shop in Girne has now out of the CD "Yellow Submarine" but plenty of copies of "Here Comes the Sun". AP





message 51....................******* !

Message edited due to inappropriate language.

AJ

Oleander


Joined: 03/05/2009
Posts: 302

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 22:33

Charming language. When unable to engage in an intelligent and civilised manner just resort to obscenity...

Tootie


Joined: 28/08/2008
Posts: 2037

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 22:40

Well said arry. Just what I was thinking...

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 23:00

as i said in my answer in teresas post re blankets wouldnt you think that both sides could put thier differences behind them and unite in these circumstances.

aripointer


Joined: 01/07/2008
Posts: 189

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 23:01

The rain that fell on Jan 19th 2010 in my opinion was far worse than the rain we had today.



Arry we do not use that sort of language in Club Level? AP

arrry



Joined: 19/08/2008
Posts: 1235

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 23:11

Message 57................ so why be so flippant in a crisis ...???



Message 54 .... is it worse than crap ...??

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 23:15

RE msg 52, Albert5: (...) I'm just angry with the way TRNC politicians "use" the money. They could prevent (at least in part) these disasters, but they prefer to send the money to their own pockets. And the worst is that everybody knows it and nobody reacts. (...)

=> Every time I read remarks like yours it makes me angry. What proof do you have? What do you know that I don't know? Give facts or don't say and write it. Yours is just pub talk, usually also printed in the UK gutter tabloids. What would you say when I change TRNC in UK: "I'm just angry with the way UK politicians "use" the money. They could prevent (at least in part) these disasters, but they prefer to send the money to their own pockets. And the worst is that everybody knows it and nobody reacts."

Oleander


Joined: 03/05/2009
Posts: 302

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 23:18

People in the UK criticise their government and politicians all the time. So does the media. In the UK they are not afraid to do so. And not disallowed from doing so on UK websites either.

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 23:24

Oleander FROM LARNACA, go find the former President of the Rest of Cyprus (RoC) or at least mind your own business in the South. You're on the wrong board again.

arrry



Joined: 19/08/2008
Posts: 1235

Message Posted:
26/02/2010 23:28

Message 61 .....................He's on the wrong board ANYWHERE !!!!!!

TimothyCadman


Joined: 13/12/2007
Posts: 1040

Message Posted:
27/02/2010 03:01

No doubt that come June they'll be saying there's a water shortage and the local Belediyse will be rationing to a few hours a week the amount of water you can have!

MartinM


Joined: 03/10/2009
Posts: 166

Message Posted:
27/02/2010 08:00

Forget June, I have no mains water NOW!!!!

straitasadie


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Posts: 450

Message Posted:
27/02/2010 09:16

does anybody know if the dual carriage way to lefkosia is clear now

Denise


Joined: 14/03/2009
Posts: 590

Message Posted:
27/02/2010 09:33

i drove past about 45 mins ago and the road was open at the roundabout after being closed off yesterday evening.