rain!
an incredible week ...
On Tuesday afternoon there has fiercely rained, there are 944 mm water in 24 hours came down and we had a real adventure to make it reluctant to express:
around 17:30 after the water has already almost waist high in the streets in front of our "car park", stood out in our office a Send a garage, and the water began to flow into the office, our driver decided that we should at least try to cope with the car, the 8 km from the hotel.
In effect, we are in two hours came a mile away, across the main streets the water was at least knee high, but mostly higher.
And it poured down with rain still ... So I decided to have
19:30, to leave the car in order to march on foot the last 7 km from the hotel. Was pitch dark due to total power failure in Bombay, but there were enough cars with lights on the streets, where there is hardly even see some.
was unfortunately the water on my way (on a main street, the Western Express Highway!) Due to disparities and persistent rain and lower, in part, I'm with the masses of people waded through neck-high water to all be open cars around you, standing in some places the water in the streets so deep that one could imagine of buses just the outline of the roof.
But since I had not even through - I thought.
Think again!
When I was on an overpass bridge had arrived and saw "my" site (light, thanks to emergency generators), I saw that I will swim a little bit of about 50-60 meters need.
OK, yes, and if necessary can swim with one hand - in the other, I had wrapped my cell phone for emergencies in a clear plastic. So the way to
densest point, as some people said to me, however, that it was not a good idea as to swim through. A quarter of an hour had previously tried a group of people and did not arrive on the other side. Why? I asked back then. Strong current? Any scrap below the water surface where they can hang?
"No sir, the guy could not swim."
can not swim and still want to get through two and a half feet deep water ... bad idea.
So I said that I can swim and it gives me confidence.
said than done, a hand held later in the air because of the oh so valuable Firmenhandies and a few minutes I was on the other side and had to go only half a mile to the hotel. Fortunately, I've
learn until the next day, that where I long under the bridge, a jeep with three dead'm inside, she drowned because they do not come out.
asks me at the hotel then a very funny Page smiling, whether it would rain outside ... without words, it was not that long and I would be freaked out.
Then in quick shower room and clothes in the washing machine, shoes with tons of hot water and rinsed off, after all we know, what is there anything in the water, right?
garbage and anything else left people asking further. I had to drink in the hotel at 22:30 and at midnight in the bar for a nightcap honestly earned, from the dead, I knew nothing -
any case.
The first came about in the newspaper the next day - today, again a day later, suggest a figure of 1,000 people died, tens of thousands dead to cattle and goats. But the count continues ...
Today is the first time back on Tuesday stopping by the office, the water is still several centimeters in there, no electricity, no nothing, and a séntsetzlicher stench. So I stopped after five minutes of my workday.
On the way back I saw some bloated drowned cows lying on the roadside, a terrible sight ... which looked as if they were explödieren soon, what did the inflated.
meet This is, to me at least it's enough to write it.
And I have decided that the "small" problems of everyday life in Hamburg for the moment are not worth mentioning. Here are people who are glad that they came with their lives, the possessions and property destroyed by the rain, no insurance, no nothing ... House and encourages you to when something should not run 100% ig - upside-down world??
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