"Unprecedented flash flooding in Switzerland"

[Mairead]

(article in German)
http://img.web.de/c/00/5A/93/01.420
(photo is of Bern, the federal capital)

Switzerland has never had anything like this happen before. Luzern (Lucerne) is in acute danger, Bern is partly under water, people are trying to protect historical buildings with sandbags, the Thuner Lake is 70 cm (27.5 inches) over flood stage, rivers in central Switzerland have overflowed their banks, roads are washed out, bridges are unsafe, the towns Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen have been completely cut off, thousands of people have been evacuated.

http://portale.web.de/Schlagzeilen/Hochwasser/msg/5935872/

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A related article ( http://portale.web.de/Reise/Wetter_News/msg/5935879/ ) says that the flooding problems also affect Bavaria and Austria, with the Garmisch-Partenkirchen region in Bavaria and parts of the Vorarlberg region in Austria totally cut off, regional emergency services overwhelmed, and a state of catastrophic emergency declared.

[Hubert Flottz]

1. I hope it washes UBS Enron clean...

United Bank of Switzerland, friends of fascists since 1900...

[leftchick]

2. omg that is awful!

I was in Luzern two years ago and it felt like heaven on earth. Omg those poor people. :(

Fuck bush and his anti-global warming corporate freaks. fuck them all... :(

[B Calm]

3. Here in Indiana we are getting just enough rain to keep the grass

green and the weeds growing. Our creeks are dried up and we are in one of the worst droughts I have seen since I moved here in 1976.

[fortress]

4. and in spain and portugal

worst drought in years, and wildfires that have burned an ungodly amount of land.
Im in munich and getting soaked.


My summer has no summer in it.
:banghead: