Is anyone following the floods in Europe

[malaise]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4913182.stm

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The River Danube has risen to its highest level since 1895 in Romania, as flooding across the Balkans continues to worsen.

Tributaries swollen by snowmelt have increased the volume of the Danube to more than twice its normal April level.

The Romanian authorities have begun flooding farmland to ease the pressure.

Serbia has declared a state of emergency in several areas, evacuating hundreds of people as the waters reached the roofs of their houses.

[EFerrari]

1. I haven't been. CA is in a state of emergency with all the rain

we've been having. Our levees are mostly old mud. Not good.

[malaise]

7. Yep I've been watching CA as well

Global warming is destroying this planet.

[EFerrari]

10. We haven't had a car for several years now. It was good to

unload the daily guilt.

I know more and more people who share a car among several households for the same reason.

[leftchick]

2. this is scary

didn't this happen 2 years ago in Switzerland? :(

[Oversea Visitor]

3. A 3 degrees change in temperature

will see a rise of sealevel by 6 metres ( Maybe more)
Since we can not prevent global warming
Sea side properties owner better take note
Damn 18 feets no joke

[EFerrari]

6. That would put me on the beach, not a block away from it.

:scared:

[Oversea Visitor]

11. Well

We screw up so much that to undo the damage going to take a lot of work and time
Me of thinking that we can not stop this rise in temperature in short run.
Meaning +( sea level rising a foregone concluesion.

My only worry is the escalation process how fast this FUBAR going to happen
Do not like what I am seeing world wide...... massive flooding report worldwide

Better check on maybe properties over 100 ft above sea level.
Some shits just cannot be prevent.
And this is one of them

Too late and nothing being done
So HEAD FOR THE HILLS

[EFerrari]

15. San Francisco is a city built on hills. So, we would probably

be okay. The bay, however would rise and that would be harmful to many low lying communities in the big central valley of California. Those people would suffer a great deal.

[Oversea Visitor]

18. Yup

World foodland be all mess up according to report I read
Many of food producing area on low ground
Every Goverments just passing the buck around on this issue
Meanwhile time tick away

Sadly I think that we just rebuilt on higher ground and go on our merry way.

[valerief]

4. I wonder how well those ruling class underground bunkers work

when the globe is submersed under water.

(edited to sound more like English)

[malaise]

8. Won't they be flooded as well? n/t

[valerief]

12. I would guess so. Don't know how they're built. Does the protected

class go underground or in orbit in the event of global chaos? Maybe they vacation in satellite resorts already. Maybe they vacation in undersea domes. They need a place to escape the people they oppress.

[SoCalDem]

5. I am.. My son is headed to World Cup soon..

I don't know if the floods will affect the games, but he's gonna be disappointed if they do..

and in a larger sense, I feel for the people there. I watch Deutshe Welle every night, and those floods are horrible..in some places they had just finished cleaning up and restoring things from the 2003 floods.. :cry:

[NorCalDem]

9. I fear that New Orleans will experience the same trouble

they'll rebuild (as they should) only to be decimated every few years or so by ridiculous hurricanes.

[Oversea Visitor]

13. Well look at the projected rise in sea level

Add this on to NO sealevel status
After that see if one can beat Mother Nature.
I guess it is a no fight

[da_chimperor]

14. He will be fine. I live less than 2 miles away from the Danube . . .

and in Germany the Danube hasn't been a problem. It's only downriver that there has been significant flooding, such as Hungary, Serbia, Romania, and Bulgaria.

Did your son manage to get tickets? :D

[SoCalDem]

20. Honestly, I don't know..

I freaked out at $1100.00 for the airline ticket, so if he did, he probably won;t be telling me how much he paid for them :)

[da_chimperor]

21. Well, let's just say it won't be enough for you to be concerned . . .

given the price of the airfare! :wow:

[SoCalDem]

23. He has a friend in Germany, so maybe he will fall into something

He's just a soccer fanatic, so any game he goes to will be fun..or if he has to sit in a bar with a big screen, that will be ok too..

He went to collegel in Florence a while back, and is used to going to European "football" games, but I see the craziness and it scares me a bit :scared:..

He's 27 though, and can take care of himself :)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

26. Will he come for the Pan American Games next year? -nt

[SoCalDem]

27. In Brazil?? I'm sure he would LOVE to.. Finances will dictate

and his fiancee. I think they are getting married next year..:)

[SoCalDem]

30. Question..

My son is planning on going to Paraguay for next year's World Cup.. Are the Pan American games close in time to them??

Where in Brazil do you live? I forgot?? Rio??

Time is not an issue for him if they are close together :)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

22. Is he a journalist or a tourist? -nt

[SoCalDem]

24. He's a guy who started playing soccer ar 5, and played club soccer

from age 7-19..played varsity soccer and football..(and golf and tennis)

so he's a BIG fan :)

[malaise]

29. Wish I was going

What a feast of football.

[Kellanved]

28. Don't worry

The spring flood season will be over by then. It's not really bad this time in Germany; just a period where the media has little else to report.

Anyway, even if somehow a flood should endanger a match: authorities are so insane about the world cup; they would find some area to flood, just to let the event commence.

[Tinksrival]

16. Budapest is one of the most beautiful cities on the Danube

I took this picture last year


This is a picture from the BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/4884050.stm




The parliment is one of the jewels of Budapest

[EFerrari]

19. Oh no! That's terrible. The link to your photograph is broken. n/t

[MadisonProgressive]

17. Not to worry!

It's just a little global warming...

[Taxloss]

25. Although this is very serious, it is not a disaster.

Europe is a cool, damp continent and as such is used to periodic flooding. These floods are bad and will be expensive, but they will be easy to recover from. No lives will be lost. This is nothing like a Katrina-level disaster - more like unseasonably heavy snowfall across the eastern USA. Global warming will inevitably make this sort of thing more common than it should be, but that is not to say that this is anything out of the ordinary.