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Flooded! :(

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by jkameleon

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When I woke up this morning, here's what I've seen where the street should have been

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Went out, made a couple of pics and videos

http://share.ovi.com/album/jkameleon.Poplave

Water's not getting higher- for the time being. There's occasional sound of emergency vehicle sirens, and the air smells of petroleum because of heating oil spilled somewhere upstream.

This suxx :(

At least we still got electricity & internet.

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by tony hopkinson

I have a dripping kitchen, and my hot water cylinder has sprung a wee leak, just after we turned the heating back on for the winter .

Looks like I'm getting an early Xmas present, a plumber....

May not be enough money left for my traditional mince pie and bottle of JD
:(

by purpleskys

over there? We had some heavy rain the other day but nothing like that...although we have had some nasty stuff in the past http://ldmsoftware.com/Community/Flood/Index.htm that was a few years ago grant you. We were lucky where we live, the waters didn't come up that high, but we were cut off from the other side of the river where town is for a couple days.

Hope you guys dry out OK

by ansugisalas

Think about it; a winter draped in heavy snow. Spring, an explosive affair, like a month-and-a-half week in Paris. Summer, hot as a furnace, dry except for the thunderstorms, seeming to last forever.
And now, autumn, stormy, rainy, blazing with colours.
I've also seen more rainbows this year than in the last ten years put together. One was ten metres away, five metres off the ground in our back yard.

This is a sign that the children growing now will be the next "greatest generation".
They'll remember just this year, and they'll tell their children how when they were kids, all years was like this.

Let's hope it gives them power enough to stand up to the troubles ahead.

by jkameleon

It was a flash flood, sort of. Happened pretty quickly. According to the news, firefighters had to rescue a drowning guy trapped in the cellar. Doors were blocked by water & some junk. Luckily he got a cellphone.

by jkameleon

:D

Actually, it's a sign pointing towards a chemical cleaning service by the name of "Little Bubble"

by seanferd

It looks kind of bad overall.

Unfortunately for me, I can't read the article to which you linked as Google thinks I'm a bot. I'm about done with Google. They are teh suck. I hope they don't acquire any other platforms I find at all useful.

by seanferd

It seems the media are catching up, now. Thanks for the links - oh, there's that same vid of the guy poking the drain with a stick.

Definitely appreciate 24ur.com for being a central repository of this stuff.

by av .

You can't go anywhere with flooding like that. Hopefully, you did have extensive property damage.

AV

by ansugisalas

You've got it in for him, somehow?
Pssst. Here's a pack of [n't] you can slap on it, then he won't realize :p

by jkameleon

Some of the buildings in the affected area are made flood proof, most of them aren't. My new neighbourhood (I've moved in a year ago) was put to the test for the 1st time during the weekend, it was never flooded before. Maybe I shoud keep a pair of fishing boots at home, just in case.

It was a bloody annoyance anyway. And something tells me insurance premiums are about to go up.

http://24ur.com/novice/slovenija/gasilci-vodo-crpali-vso-noc.html

by nexs

But look on the bright side; You have a free pool, literally at your front door!

Best of luck.

by dmambo

We've been promised the underwater cars since the '50's, but this is no way to speed up the development. It's like developing flying cars by dropping them out of airplanes.

by cmiller5400

If they are dropped from an airplane, they will have a similar glide path to a baby grand piano :O ;)

Must be fun to watch, as long as you aren't under the spot it picks to "land" :)

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