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Skybird · 12-25-23, 06:34 PM

The problem is that we have ongoing rain for days and weeks now. Novembre, Decembre. The soil is incapable to take in any more water, thats why it does not drip down vertically into the soil, but spills horizontally. The upper layers of the ground cannot store any more water anymore - sicne days already, if not weeks.

Theoretically our deep water sweet water reservoirs can use these floods, they have been terribly exhausted over the past 3, 4 years's hot and dry summers and way too little rain over the year. But it takes weeks until rain on the surface reaches these deep layers in the ground now.

Two hundred meters in straight line away from where I live, they have build a dike along the small Aa that runs parrallel to a main taffic road and that got completely drowned 9 years ago, the the river bed was denaturated and new bends and turns got added and reservoire areas added and a pump station got build, connected to the drain. Usually its a small "river" just 1-2 meters wide and so shallow that a Dachshound can stand in it without needing to swim. Its a joke of a river here at this point. Now it is a huge lake, over two meters deep, and some dozen meters wide, and close to the top of the dike's upper rim. It balances there since days. At the current rate of raining, if the dike holds, we will get away, but a bit more intensity in the rain could spell desaster within a few hours. Also, its the sewage that may get overloaded, what drowned my district 9 years ago was not only the water falling down on us (240 l per sqm in two hours), but worse was the water that rose from below our feet and came from the sewage and drains.

Currently no rain. Hope it stays that way. Orkan Zoltan is on his way out, but before he left he really had a party. And its 10-11°C, so no chance that it turns into snow.

The squirrels also are not happy...

12-25-23, 06:34 PM	#6
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,680 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	The problem is that we have ongoing rain for days and weeks now. Novembre, Decembre. The soil is incapable to take in any more water, thats why it does not drip down vertically into the soil, but spills horizontally. The upper layers of the ground cannot store any more water anymore - sicne days already, if not weeks. Theoretically our deep water sweet water reservoirs can use these floods, they have been terribly exhausted over the past 3, 4 years's hot and dry summers and way too little rain over the year. But it takes weeks until rain on the surface reaches these deep layers in the ground now. Two hundred meters in straight line away from where I live, they have build a dike along the small Aa that runs parrallel to a main taffic road and that got completely drowned 9 years ago, the the river bed was denaturated and new bends and turns got added and reservoire areas added and a pump station got build, connected to the drain. Usually its a small "river" just 1-2 meters wide and so shallow that a Dachshound can stand in it without needing to swim. Its a joke of a river here at this point. Now it is a huge lake, over two meters deep, and some dozen meters wide, and close to the top of the dike's upper rim. It balances there since days. At the current rate of raining, if the dike holds, we will get away, but a bit more intensity in the rain could spell desaster within a few hours. Also, its the sewage that may get overloaded, what drowned my district 9 years ago was not only the water falling down on us (240 l per sqm in two hours), but worse was the water that rose from below our feet and came from the sewage and drains. Currently no rain. Hope it stays that way. Orkan Zoltan is on his way out, but before he left he really had a party. And its 10-11°C, so no chance that it turns into snow. The squirrels also are not happy... __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.