The Weather Thread, It's spring! Options

[Fethenwen]

How's the weather right now where you live?

Here in Finland it SUCKS! It snowed again this morning, and now it is melting a bit. But we still have lots of it, I like snow, but this kind of snow is not nice. There's water under it, and it gathers in the streets like porridge, making my feet and pants soaking wet :(

[milanius]

It's spring, nature's favourite time of the year for floods northern parts of Serbia, especially arround river Danube and several other rivers, is having [SELF-CENSORSHIP]loads of trouble, because water levels are highest in 40 years - the only time we had worse floods here on Danube was back in 1965.
I can only imagine what it's like in Hungary and Romania damnit, this is the second consecutive year with floods...

[Kora]

It's spring, nature's favourite time of the year for floods northern parts of Serbia, especially arround river Danube and several other rivers, is having [SELF-CENSORSHIP]loads of trouble, because water levels are highest in 40 years - the only time we had worse floods here on Danube was back in 1965.
I can only imagine what it's like in Hungary and Romania damnit, this is the second consecutive year with floods...

It's bad, I'll say that much. I'm from Romania and the only thing that I've heard (or seen) in the last few weeks are detailed reports of the Danube's rise. I myself have little to worry since the capital is a hundred miles from the river, but my parents live in the city of Cernavoda, which is almost on red alert. That's the place where the river starts to make its way into the sea and several large floodgates have been built, over the last decades, to protect the city from a flash-flood and to supply the nuclear power plant there with a makeshift lake.

Moist officials say that the floodgates should be strong enough, but I have my doubts. There are several other dams up the river and, so far, they haven't proved to be very effective.

My only wish is that we do not see a repeat of last year's disaster, when the Siret river burst its banks and overflowed across southern Moldova. Thiusands were left homeless, the exact number of deaths is still being debated and an entire way of life was destroyed. What worries me the most is this: if we'll have another flood, it's going to be much worse, since the Siret is a little drizzle, compoared to the Danube.

This post has been edited by Kora: Apr 12 2006, 08:53 AM