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
You really are getting it. Horrible to think about the mess that all this is going to leave behind.
ReplyDeleteBet 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.