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KurtVerbose



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Flooding in central europe

I'm currently visiting Bratislava and so witnessing the floods first hand.

This is the view from my hotel window.

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Actually, that's Prague, and I think it's photoshop.

This is the Danube yesterday.



This was 24 hours later. Look at the railings to see how much it's risen. Given the width of the Danube that's an awful lot of water.



This boat restaurant was listing quite badly. Decided not to eat there.



They had to evacuate the 'boatels'.



Some sand bagging defences prepared.



Couldn't work out why, but I just doubted the effectiveness of this.



This boat was moved since yesterday, otherwise certainly it's railings would've been touching the bridge and it may have been jammed under.



Lots of debris which together with the very strong current would've made swimming very dangerous. Instead I used the hotel pool, which was on the 11th floor and overlooked the river anyway.



Not all the pontoons survived.



Tonight/tomorrow morning is supposed to be high water mark, so this may be my last post before I drown. If so please bring a wreath in the shape of a life belt to my funeral. It's what I would've wanted.

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You normally swim in the river? Shocked
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you have a great sense of humour... Laughing Thumbs Up ... - .- -.




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Evacuating boats in a flood? That souns like something the uk hse would do 
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Who says the Swiss don't have a sense of humour !!! Well written report, I hope the hotel gave you a room on the 11 th floor as well, or was that the pool with the swan in it ? Smile MY 2010 5.0 SC Galway green and sand interior!!
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ebajema wrote:
Who says the Swiss don't have a sense of humour !!!


I'm actually English, just live in Switzerland.
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Gazellio @ Prestige Cars wrote:
You normally swim in the river? Shocked


I haven't swum in the Danube, but I have swum in the Rhine many times when I lived in Basel.



As you can see, it's popular. There are even showers by the side of the river. I sometimes even go topless.
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May ask what an English Gentleman does to earn a coin in the Piefke Rheinländers Schweizer-Land ?
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Did anyone see the footage on the news where all the cars at a Land Rover dealer where pretending to be submarines... You could only see about 5 cm of the top of the doors and of course the roofs... The rest was completely under water; Defenders as well as Range Rovers... Shocked Mike.

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Gazellio @ Prestige Cars wrote:
May ask what an English Gentleman does to earn a coin in the Piefke Rheinländers Schweizer-Land ?


I'm a big whore.

Actually, it's not so interesting. I work in IT for a finance company. I have worked for a couple of banks here before I moved to insurance. Snore...

And I've always worked in Englisch.
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For an IT guy Kurt i find your replies are very witty in some threads …… great SOH i may add ( unusual for someone from Englandshire ) Laughing Laughing Wink … Thumbs Up
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Not all countries did as well as Slovakia.

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