As the Flying Dutchman told me the newspapers and TV in the Netherlands were full of reports on the very bad weather we had especially in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. And it is not over yet.
Luckily here we were spared catastrophes - on the photo you see the "Au" - a sort of natural overflow "basin" for a swelling little river. Two years ago I saw different pictures - no green left to be seen, seething water - and in the neighbour village many houses stood for a quarter under water.
But Augsburg, Regensburg, Passau - they were no that lucky this year.
I am glad Britta that you are well and that you were not affected by the floods.
ReplyDeleteI hope the suffering of those who were damaged ends soon!
Dear Katerina, yes, we were lucky to be spared (and we live on a hill - though I saw pictures of houses tumbling down when the floods came).
DeleteAt the moment the sky holds its breath - but it is not over.
Northern Europe is very, very very green this year as opposed to last year when many areas were ablaze. The weather is completely crazy.
ReplyDeleteYes, dear Rosemary, the weather is really unpredictable. Temperatur changes within a day - yesterday it became hot, before we had the heating on. Weird.
DeleteThe weather has been unpredictable this year. Stay safe.
ReplyDeleteDear Emma, thank you for your good wishes! For the farmers around us it is not good.
DeleteIt has been wet here, but not like that. I tell the kids that when they eventually buy houses, if they do, to look carefully at the terrain and drainage, and best to live on high ground like we do now. Keep dry.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Tasker, my son and DiL did just that: bought a house on a hill (which is a bit cumbersome when you have toddlers - so many steps into the terraced gardens! But hopefully safe from floods - the overflow meadows are reassuring, and anybody can build there. Good for the wide view!
DeleteI think I would be deepening the river, building up the sides and moving homes away from the most flooded area.
ReplyDeleteThat is what really astonished me, dear Helen: most of the very badly affected inhabitants of the Ahrtal (you might have read about the disaster three years ago) built up their completely demolished houses on the same ground!
DeleteThat looks quite the mess. It is raining here, too, and predicted for the next several days.
ReplyDeleteThat photo is nothing compared with the floods we had here two or three years ago, dear Joanne - but even then nobody was harmed, the sheep were safe, only the meadows looked a mess.
DeleteI'll think of you the next days!
I visited all those riverside towns when doing a riverboat cruise - Budapest to Amsterdam. We saw the high water marks on the lovely old buildings in Passau!
ReplyDeleteHope the people are safe - rain and flooding causes a lot of heartbreak for many.
Mary -
So you saw it with your own eyes, dear Mary. Passau has learned and protected their houses.
DeleteI lived for many years in Mainz - and the pictures of the Rhine overflowing cellars were almost every year the same.
But I think it is becoming worse - many more rivers are overflowing. The earth often is compacted and water can not seep in.