8.8.2010: Venice in Germany; Nikolaivorstadt in Görlitz
Yesterday morning (. 29.9) I call in Görlitz In: Nothing - the line is dead Not again.! After days of rains again high water, no electricity, no drinking water?
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On August 7, a couple from Görlitz is invited to a celebration to Dresden. For days it had rained, the Neisse resulting flood. Still, however, nothing seems somehow threatening. You drive your car by approximately 15 clock on the Neisse River along and see near the new bridge, which leads into the Polish eastern city, as the owner of a bankside restaurants already stacked sandbags. The husband steals a bad feeling he'd rather stay at home, but then moves yet to Dresden and thinks to himself: "But they are afraid!" Later it becomes clear that the Poles knew something that a few meters further on the other bank of the Neisse did not know, however, was able to know that due to strong waterfalls in the nearby mountains, the flood of the River Neisse would rapidly rise further.
8.8.2010: Goerlitz Nikolai suburb; an inflatable pool as a gondola
The young couple returns in the evening after Görlitz back: You can make your house but only "enter" on a window, a huge tide pushes against the front door, which is no longer open, everything is pitch black, they wade through the icy water, you can hardly see anything, the current has been switched off, no phone, no water, except the one that incessantly rises in house.
Between 18 and 19 clock the "Witkastausee" in the near Radomierzyce (Radmeritz) was broken. He dammed the river Witka (Wittig), which leads into the Neisse. Radmeritz located about 10 km southeast of Gorlitz on the Polish side. The dam of the jam lake consists of a simple vegetated with grasses mound. Not exactly what one would call "on the state of the art". (More ...)
