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[yakalskovich]

We're getting a hurricane.

Hamburg will be drowned; at least the first people in the German speaking blogosphere are babbling about evacuations.

There used to be these catacombs of basements near the harbour where the street goes up to the whore houses, where the sailors used to sell some souvenirs from far countries before walking up to the aforementioned establishments. We visited there, were very impressed by the sheer impressive value of the haphazard ethnological museum, and I still remember the screen I didn't buy because it would have been too hard to get back to Munich.

Tonight, it'll all be drownded, unless there's some sort of last-minute miracle.

Comments

[marchenland.livejournal.com]

I can't read that article and I can't find any info about this online. The BBC weather reports for Europe all look rainy, but not THAT rainy! What the hell?

[yakalskovich]

Hurricane force windstorm warnings for the German North Sea coast. Hamburg prepared for flooding and evacuated some parts in order not to get caught with their pants down. There had been a very dreadful flood in Hamburg in 1964 where many people drowned, and that all the older people there remember with horror.

I'm in Munich, at the very other end of the country; but I remember that basement full of odds and ends fom all over the world, and that's a prime candidate for flooding. Mind you, some of it must have survived the 1964 flood in some way...

[bigfluffball.livejournal.com]

Oh good grief, that's awful *hugs*. Glad you're safe the other side. At least there's some warning, which is something.

[yakalskovich]

It's getting rather serious now; and we have a buidling site next door, with a crane towering right over us.

Luckily, Tower is my pup, in Milliways...

*grasps straws in order not to get scared*

[bigfluffball.livejournal.com]

*hugs and shields*

Cranes are designed to withstand that sort of thing right?

[yakalskovich]

I'd have thought so.

Only I saw a collapsed crane a few months ago along the railway line I travel every day...

[bigfluffball.livejournal.com]

:s

I'm guessing by the fact you posted today that you're okay, but still *hugs*

[yakalskovich]

I learned today that cranes only collapse if their arms aren't allowed to swing free. If they can swing free, they're able to turn into the wind andout of harm's way.

Funnily, what was worrying me about our crane originally was the fact the arm was swinging free over our roofs...

*shrugs*

Now I am so ancient, but still learn fascinating new stuff all the time.