Below: ul. Sarabandy, where the footpath to ul. Trombity (to the left) crosses to meet the one running off to ul. Klarnecistów. The Mercedes Benz Vito has broken down in the thigh-deep water. The driver, having taken left his trousers inside, climbed out of the window with a tow-rope, to be attached to a large baggage taxi he called out as his rescue vehicle. Meanwhile, a śmiałek in a Toyota SUV makes the crossing without a hitch. Very risky; water up the exhaust-pipe kills the engine.
The Iveco baggage taxi hauled the Vito out in seconds. On the shore, the next challenge would be to get its engine restarted. Eddie and I filled our wellies here; we had to take the footpath back home and it was way too deep even for our decent Barbours.
Right: Back home, we need to dry our footwear! About three litres of water in each boot. It's a good thing that Friday afternoon and all of Saturday were sunny; it is as if Dame Nature is trying to atoneWe were very lucky; many in Jeziorki still have flooded cellars, fields, gardens; only a few houses (on ul. Kórnicka) had flooded ground floors.Warszawa powódż Ursynów zielony
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You really are getting it. Horrible to think about the mess that all this is going to leave behind.
Bet you wish you had some of our weather.
After a snowy winter, rainy(ish) early spring, not one drop of anything has fallen in our area for the last month and a half. This is only the beginning (the rainy season, monsoon, does not begin for another month at best, most likely two). The temps are creeping up from the low 30's*C towards the scary 40's*C. Fierce winds have long ago driven the last ragged molecules of moisture sheltering in the dust around us; that dust rushes past us, cleaning paint of cars and making toothy smiles out of doors inadvisable; the riverbeds are dry; rattlesnakes gather around the few remaining seeps and creeks.
Come visit.
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