WILD weather has hit another Brit holiday hotspot, leaving cars floating down streets and homes flooded with water.
Photos of the crazy weather have surfaced online as Greek locals begin recovery efforts ahead of further storms.
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Cars have been left underwater, main streets have turned into rivers and the ground floor of many homes have been flooded.
In Corfu, a British family’s car got stuck on an uphill dirt track, leaving them to be rescued by local emergency services.
The flooding has also left many residents of Oiniades and Aitoliko in Aitoloakarnania unable to leave their homes.
Amid the chaos, heavy rainfall has caused landslides in Nechori, resulting in major issues on the surrounding road networks.
The relentless weather has also forced children out of the classroom as schools in Zakynthos and Rhodes remain closed to “ensure the safety of students and staff”.
Schools and workplaces in Athens were given a surprise long weekend ahead of celebrations for the city’s patron saint, as city officials use the holiday to create a silver lining around the stormy weather.
The southern European nation is now bracing itself for a further 48 hours of hell as hailstorms and more heavy rain are predicted to hit on Thursday afternoon.
Meteorologists Giorgos Tsatrafilias said the nationwide storm will “bring severe thunderstorms, gale-force winds, a sharp temperature drop and even snow on Mount Kaimaktsalan”.
“October will kick off with strong storms, powerful winds, falling temperatures and even snow,” he said.
“The deterioration will start on Thursday morning from the west and spread across the country through Friday.”
Tsatrafilias said areas that would be specifically targeted by the bad weather would include heavy rain and thunderstorms over western and northern Greece and eastern parts of the Aegean, gale-force winds across the Ionian and southern Aegean sea and light snow at the Kaimaktsalan ski resort.
As flash flooding hits Greece, early snowfall is expected in Western Macedonia, while heavy rainfall and storms are forecast for Thrace, the Aegean and Crete.
Greece is the latest victim to the wild weather thrashing the Mediterranean, after Italy and Spain were hit with wild storms earlier in the week.
Italian residents in Agrigento Town and the San Leone hamlet in Sicily were also left unable to leave their homes due to flash flooding following wild storms.
Holidaymakers in Ibiza also witnessed a rock slide crash down onto a hillside hotel, leaving three people injured.
The falling rocks caused hundreds of people to evacuate in order to avoid being crushed beneath the boulders.
Staggering aerial videos have also revealed the full devastation of brutal floods that swamped Ibiza after a biblical downpour.
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Cars and debris were strewn around the streets by gushing floodwater and a landslide crashed through a hotel – but the clean-up has now begun.
Footage from a police helicopter shows the vast sea-front promenades totally submerged in brown floodwater, which gushes into the sea.
Locals can be seen battling through the depths as rubbish and muck sail through streets on the current.
Parked cars are submerged up to their bonnets – with some clearly flooded beyond repair.
Passengers arriving from a ferry can be seen having to wade through deep water, holding their luggage aloft to avoid it being drenched.
An “extraordinary danger” red alert was slapped on the island on Tuesday as the tail of Storm Gabrielle brushed over the Balearics.
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Spain was forced to draft in the army and police reinforcements to help guide Ibiza through the treacherous floods.
A helicopter buzzed members of a specialist Armed Forces unit into the island from a mainland army base near Valencia.
Troops from the Military Emergencies Unit (UME), which were used in last October’s deadly floods in Valencia, were also deployed to Ibiza.
The Civil Guard revealed this morning it had rescued an astonishing 148 people from flooded properties and stricken cars in 59 separate operations.
