Water, water everywhere...
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Almost the whole of Austria is a disaster zone just now, with continuous torrential rain over the last week... many communities are flooded, and the first deaths have occurred. Luckily, our house is built on stilts so that we can still hope to escape relatively unscathed; but at this moment, our garden is almost three feet under water.
Luckily, we were able to save about three weeks' worth of firewood - our only heating source! - all the garden appliances are now in the house, and we have filled every container with water, and the larder is full of dry and canned foods, and over the last weeks, we preserved many hundreds of jars of our home-grown fruit (cherries, apples, pears, peaches, apricot, grapes, plums and quince) which is good because our community is now isolated from outside. Fire service and army are helping or evacuating those that are not so fortunate... so if any appeals for help reaches you, be so good as to donate. Many people have already lost everything; and in many areas of Austria, you can't get flood insurance.
Our street
Our and the neighbour's garden
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I’m sorry to see this and I hope the water recedes quickly and you can get back to normal life. Sounds like you’re pretty well prepared. We live on a small mountain about 1000’ above the city below, so no flood worries here, but…tornadoes are fairly numerous in this part of the country (Alabama, USA). It seems like just about anywhere people live, they are subject to some sort of natural disasters.
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Wow, that's really bad. I heard about this in the news, but it's been downplayed after the latest presidential assassination attempt.
Is it beginning to recede?
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@administrator It is still raining heavily - it receded a bit over night, but now it is rising again...
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The garden is now fully inundated, and all the stuff we had stored underneath the house has gone aswim - firewood, garden furniture, some empty gas cylinders from the caravan, a full suite of upholstery and a set of antique massive oak furniture inherited from my grandparents... fortunately, everything is still inside the garden, not all over the place like some of the neighbours' stuff... Our garden now looks like this...
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I think you need more water.
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@administrator We would be happy to donate some to Portugal - they are fighting wildfires there...
