For the last three days it has been practicaly raining non stop and from what I am hearing it is supposedly going to continue raining for the next few days until thursday.
Consequently there has been some really bad flooding in central Europe, including the region of Austria where I live.
In Austria the situation is really bad, there is a term used here which is "Jahrhundert Hochwasser" which means "flood of the century". The term is being already used to describe the current situation, but journalists cant helpt to point out that the last "Jahrhundert Hochwasser" only happened recently about 10 years ago, and before that, a similary big flood took place 10 years before that one. Maybe it has something to do with climate change, anyway, it seems as if the severe flooding which use to turn up here once every 100 years are now turning up once every 10 years.
5 people have been killed so far, and I hope that there wont be more fatalities.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AENfpUVshaw
Consequently there has been some really bad flooding in central Europe, including the region of Austria where I live.
In Austria the situation is really bad, there is a term used here which is "Jahrhundert Hochwasser" which means "flood of the century". The term is being already used to describe the current situation, but journalists cant helpt to point out that the last "Jahrhundert Hochwasser" only happened recently about 10 years ago, and before that, a similary big flood took place 10 years before that one. Maybe it has something to do with climate change, anyway, it seems as if the severe flooding which use to turn up here once every 100 years are now turning up once every 10 years.
5 people have been killed so far, and I hope that there wont be more fatalities.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AENfpUVshaw
For us though it isn't THAT strange. We have 100, 30, 20, 11, 8 year cycles for almost everything...at least what I have observed over the past 50 odd years.
