Danube at century high

[lovuian]

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyid=2006-04-15T111941Z_01_L15414240_RTRUKOC_0_US-WEATHER-DANUBE-FLOODS.xml

BUCHAREST (Reuters) - The Danube rose to its highest level in over a century on Saturday, but a breached dam in Romania eased pressure downstream on towns and villages struggling to hold back the floods, officials said.

Rivers fed by heavy rain and melting snow crept higher across the Balkans for the fourth straight day, driving people from their homes and swamping low-lying farmland and ports.

Waters rose to an 111-year high in the Romanian town of Bazias, near its border with Serbia, flooding around 5,000 hectares (12,355 acres) of farmland on the northern bank.


The river also flooded the small port of Bechet, while soldiers and civil defense workers scrambled to reinforce dykes and build sandbag barriers on both sides of the river.

more...
thats helluva lot of farmland...

[WhiteTara]

1. it feels like it is raining all over the world

We have had two days of sun in the last month. It has rained every day here, if not all day then on and off. I am beginning to feel webby. The road leading up to our house is slipping and could completely fall off.

The levees are being breached in central California and farmland there is being flooded. It may be a skinny food year if all the farmland is ruined for the season.

[TygrBright]

2. Except here in New Mexico, where the drought...

...is threatening Biblical proportions. Seven years of the Sleepers on their left sides, send Jacob and the bros to buy food, etc.

Anyone who has wet stuff to share, send it along, we'll be most grateful.

wistfully,
Bright

[WhiteTara]

3. would that I could

the lake in front of our house has so much water that it has almost risen to the crowns of the trees. And blue sky, oh I miss the blue sky.

[Coventina]

4. Arizona too. We're dyin' here.

Drought sucks.

Thanks BFEE, for making global warming so much worse.