A TORRENT of filthy brown water roars through Rhodes’ postcard-pretty alleys as Storm Byron keeps hammering the Greek island.
Shocking clips show narrow lanes transformed into violent rivers as the holiday hotspot braces for more rainfall.
In one clip, muddy water slammed into shopfronts and stone walls, dragging branches, plastic crates and street debris in a churning surge.
The camera shook as the flood rushes past at speed in a sudden, brutal hit of flash flooding triggered by hours of torrential rain on Thursday.
Separate footage shows a car almost completely submerged, with only the roof visible as floodwater rushes around it.
And a third clip shows a road in Rhodes disappearing under fast-spreading floodwater as heavy rain batters the windscreen.
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Authorities on Rhodes confirmed severe flooding across Lindos and nearby areas, warning residents to stay indoors as the island braced for more.
The Municipality of Rhodes said all schools will remain closed on Friday, citing “severe storms and dangerous conditions.”
Officials also urged people to limit movement as the phenomena “may intensify in the coming hours.”
The unfolding disaster is grimly familiar.
The island has been struck repeatedly by flash floods in late 2024 and early 2025, events scientists link to warming seas intensifying Mediterranean rainfall.
Storm Byron is a deep low-pressure system sweeping the eastern Mediterranean.
It has prompted Greece’s highest Red Code weather alert, with officials warning of intense, long-duration downpours, thunderstorms, hail and maybe gale-force winds through early Saturday.
The Hellenic National Meteorological Service says the brunt of the storm is falling on the east and south, including the Cyclades, Dodecanese and Crete.
Gusts in the southeastern Aegean could hit 8–9 Beaufort on Friday.
Schools on multiple islands, including Symi, Hydra, Kythira and Kastellorizo, have been pre-emptively shut.
Across Greece, the storm has left a trail of chaos, with Zakynthos seeing roads turn to rivers as flooding swamped Alykes and cut off key routes.
In Gythio, the village of Platanos was submerged, water rising to the ceilings of ground-floor homes and forcing residents to flee to upper floors in a scramble to survive.
Crete has also been hit by road collapses, landslides and even a sudden building wall failure.
Meanwhile in Laconia and Pieria, 112 emergency alerts chimed out as authorities warned of “immediate danger.”
Meteorologists say these “critical hours” could see 200–250 tons of water per hectare dumped over parts of the country, with volumes capable of causing widespread urban and rural devastation.
Byron, they warn, will shift north and northeast on Friday, hitting Thessaly, Evia, central Macedonia and the eastern Aegean islands with another round of violent weather.