Wet christmas

[Skybird]

Christmas still could get interesting for me. I live in the vicinity of one major and three minor waterways, 1400-4000m away in straight lines. And this is how it looks over here in the South-Eastern outskirts of my hometown. Though not yet as desastrous as during the heavy rain desaster 2014 when most of the total city drowned due to three supercells meeting over the city - and then stopped moving. Its raining over here mostly mildly but constantly since ten days, and more is predicted to come. Driving to my parents on ebike yesterday evening was with gusts of 60-70 km/h in the face, however.

The area some of you may remember from one of my videos ("Essen holen"), east along the river Werse through that idyllic little forest that loked so harmless and tame with meadows near that small river - its all a huge lake now, what was a small river 5-10m wide and shallow, now has swallowed holiday houses, meadows, acres, and in parts is over 3 m deep and in parts reaches hundreds of meters into the neighbouring land. Thankfully between there and my place flows the Dortmund-Ems-Channel, deep wide, fast and steady, washing away much of that eastern flood and transporting it north before it could reach my part of the city. Water has strange ways at times...

Images from the Westfälische Nachrichten. On bike its just a very few minutes to get to these places. The rivers in these images all flow further towards Münster, passing my neighbourhood at just a few hundred meters away.























Water levels are still rising. Every centimeter now counts...