08/08/2010: Venice in Germany, Nikolai suburb in Goerlitz
Yesterday morning (. 29.9) I'll call in Görlitz: Nothing - the line is dead, not again! After days of rain again high water, no electricity, no drinking water?
Review:
On 7 August is a couple of Gorlitz to Dresden invited to a celebration. For days it had rained, the Neisse River is flooding. But still nothing seems somehow threatening. You drive the car by about 15 clock on the Neisse River and along seen near the new bridge that leads into the eastern Polish town, as the owner of a restaurant near the shore is already stacked sandbags. The husband steals an uneasy feeling that he'd rather stay home, but then it goes to Dresden, and thinks to himself: "But they are afraid!" Later is clear that the Poles did something that a few meters further on the other bank of the Neisse did not know, but could not know that because of high water in the nearby mountains, the flooding of the Neisse River would rise very quickly even further.
08/08/2010: Görlitz Nikolai suburb, an inflatable swimming pool as a gondola
The young couple returns in the evening returned to Goerlitz: you can use your house but only "enter" on a window, a huge tide pushing against the front door, which is no longer open, everything is pitch black, they wade through the icy water, you can hardly see anything, the current has been turned off, no phone, no water, except that which rises in the house constantly.
Between 18 and 19 was the clock "Witkastausee" broken in the near Radomierzyce (Radmeritz). He dammed the creek Witka (Wittig), which leads into the Lusatian Neisse. Radmeritz lies on the Polish side about 10 km southeast of Goerlitz. The dam of the lake consists of a simple congestion overgrown with grass embankment. Not exactly what one would call "on the cutting edge of technology." (more ...)
