My hometown is flooded! (more pics in #11)

[Sonia59]

That's a lot of water! Glad you are safe!
We have the same situation in France, in some areas upper in the north.

Would it not be such a bad context, I would say your photos are wonderful, and the area looks great, with such nice colours in spite of the extremely grey sky.

[phesina]

Oh.. my.. God...

Splendid photographs, as always, Kirsten. They tell QUITE a story VERY well about your hometown. Thank you.

I hope the flood waters go down soon and the people and the animals in the flooded areas are able to stay safe and have food and shelter.

[Kirsten]

Yes, it's a lot of water indeed, but I heard it's going down slowly now... However, if it starts raining the next days, the situation might become even worse.

But I read also something heartwarming today: The fire fighters rescued several bunnies and hens from a flooded garden, and now they're safe!


Here are some more pics of this morning:

[Catherinedana]

Hope you don't mind, but I'm using the picture of the crow by the water as my desktop at work. I love his expression. . ."what are you lookin' at?" He doesn't seem to mind the water at all

[Kirsten]

Hope you don't mind, but I'm using the picture of the crow by the water as my desktop at work. I love his expression. . ."what are you lookin' at?" He doesn't seem to mind the water at all

No, I don't mind at all! Yes, the crow was probably wondering why everyone came down to the rivers today, staring and taking pics...

[lvpets2002]

Oh my my thats a lot of water.. So sorry to hear of this flooding.. Glad your allright & safe.. great pics of everything..

[chocolatepuppy]

That's awful! Stay safe Kirsten!

[anna_66]

Would it not be such a bad context, I would say your photos are wonderful, and the area looks great, with such nice colours in spite of the extremely grey sky.

I was thinking the same thing. The pictures are gorgeous, but I hate to see what they're doing to those beautiful buildings. I'm glad to hear that your safe and your home wasn't affected.

Thanks for sharing these.

[Kirsten]

Yes, it's sad what the water is doing to our buildings. However, the water is going back now, at least a little bit.

As for sending my pics to our local newspaper: they don't need mine, they already have lots of pictures on their websites, some of them much better than mine. Lots of people took photos of the flood.

[momcat]

Hi Kirsten,
Your extraordinary pictures tell a heartbreaking story. Such a beautiful town dealing with so much water. I'm happy and relieved to know that you, Lily, and Luna are safe. If your situation should change with more rain possibly on the way, be sure to pm me and I'll help you and your sweet girls any way I possibly can.

Be well and be safe

[Kirsten]

Thank you very much for offering that! But we're okay so far, I don't think we'll be running out of goods here. The water went back a little, but a new flood is expected at the weekend, maybe worse than before. We'll see...

[kittycats_delight]

I hope you guys don't get any more flooding or you will end up like Vicenza did back in November. There was a total of €1.4 billion in damage. There were 3 killed. All elderly people who got swept away by the rising river. There were places that were under 90 cm or 3 feet of water. The emergency crews actually couldn't use cars, trucks etc. They had to use boats to get around. It was madness. Stay safe & stay dry.

I am going to post a few photos of the flood we had back in November.

[Kirsten]

OMG, this looks bad! Such a beautiful town, and all this water... And just look at all these cars!!

So sorry to hear that people lost their lives!