If there's one sound that will remind me of the floods, it's that of pumps working overtime to get water out of cellars, garages, gardens and fields. Trouble is, as one man pours it out of his, the stuff invariably goes into someone else's.
Below: Trombity 24 (in effect a street with one house number, houses are numbered A through to S).
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Below: The media take interest. TVN Warszawa crew turn up to
interview neighbours on ul. Trombity. Beyond the camera, the journalist and a gaggle of locals, the most seriously flooded stretch of our road. Water is flowing from the fields and houses to the right to those on the left.
Below: ul. Kórnicka, looking towards the junction with ul. Trombity. Note the portable toilets on the left, and the sandbags to the right. Fighting a losing battle with water still pouring in from fields on this side of the railway tracks.
Below: Yesterday evening's work by the firemen aided by the railway has had some effect. The sandbags are holding back the bulk of water in the fields to the west of the tracks, but it is still seeping through and flooding ul. Kórnicka. My fixed-wheel bike, mechanical simplicity itself, is proving itself the best possible form of locomotion around flooded Jeziorki.
Below: Cross the fields in the above photo and you'll get to ul. Starzynskiego in Dawidy Bankowe. The road is closed to traffic, because the bridge over the stream has a big hole in it. Buses are being diverted down ul. Baletowa (so no 715s or 809s for Jeziorki for the foreseeable future). There will be MASSIVE traffic jams along Karczunkowska on Monday!
Back to ul. Pozytywki, where the water level has subsided somewhat.
Below: I've marked in yellow Thursday night's high water mark. This time, we manage to do a complete lap of the pond through the floodwaters without having to get off our bikes.
Below: The pond, to the right. The water level in the fields to the left beginning to subside. We could not have cycled this way yesterday morning. Puławska is dry. We got electricity back at ten o'clock this morning, 36 hours after it went off.
Below: The media take interest. TVN Warszawa crew turn up to interview neighbours on ul. Trombity. Beyond the camera, the journalist and a gaggle of locals, the most seriously flooded stretch of our road. Water is flowing from the fields and houses to the right to those on the left. 
Below: ul. Kórnicka, looking towards the junction with ul. Trombity. Note the portable toilets on the left, and the sandbags to the right. Fighting a losing battle with water still pouring in from fields on this side of the railway tracks.
Below: Yesterday evening's work by the firemen aided by the railway has had some effect. The sandbags are holding back the bulk of water in the fields to the west of the tracks, but it is still seeping through and flooding ul. Kórnicka. My fixed-wheel bike, mechanical simplicity itself, is proving itself the best possible form of locomotion around flooded Jeziorki.
Below: Cross the fields in the above photo and you'll get to ul. Starzynskiego in Dawidy Bankowe. The road is closed to traffic, because the bridge over the stream has a big hole in it. Buses are being diverted down ul. Baletowa (so no 715s or 809s for Jeziorki for the foreseeable future). There will be MASSIVE traffic jams along Karczunkowska on Monday!
Back to ul. Pozytywki, where the water level has subsided somewhat. Below: I've marked in yellow Thursday night's high water mark. This time, we manage to do a complete lap of the pond through the floodwaters without having to get off our bikes.
Below: The pond, to the right. The water level in the fields to the left beginning to subside. We could not have cycled this way yesterday morning. Puławska is dry. We got electricity back at ten o'clock this morning, 36 hours after it went off.
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