Update

So yesterday was our return date from Agadir to Dublin. We knew the bridges had collapsed and we couldn't get to the airport. We still had wifi and spent most of the day studying Aer Lingus website for a phone number to ring them to no avail. Helen booked herself an Easyjet flight to London for Thursday. 

You've already seen the raging torrents. Today we went to look at the state of the bridge. Lots of people were standing on each side shouting across to each other. We can get 3G by the bridge so I was able to phone the Embassy in Rabat and report our details just to keep them informed that we are trapped. The embassy was shut so the phone went through to the Foreign Office in London. I spoke to Paul Huggins and he said he would pass our information on to the embassy. We reported that Ann's medication was low.

As we stood by the bridge we heard reports that the airports had closed including Marrakech, Agadir and Casablanca; that the whole of Morocco was going to be declared a disaster zone in an hour; that only Girl in in the south was a disaster zone.. There is a gap in the bridge of 15 feet where the river crashed through.. The water had even flowed over the bridge and twisted the railings. Some young men confidently predicted that it would be mended within an hour but we bought supplies for a few days because it would take at least a week to repair it back home.

People arrived with a bread, candles, plastic bottles with motorbike fuel and threw them across the chasm. Helen spoke to a man who had received such a sack from his friend and asked her if she wanted bread. He gave her three loaves!

The only way I can post this is to connect to 3G beside the damaged bridge.. 

If any of You can find out if the Agadir airport is open and whether Aer Lingus are resuming flights we would be grateful. We can't seem to get in touch with any Aer Lingus person. 

Our Moroccan mobile phone number is 0641301808 however we can only get a signal at the bridge 4 km away from the house.