In light of the flooding in Dresden...

[Starfish]

This terrible katastrophen has me kind of upset but more or less it is again a lesson to me that humans, when faced with great peril, become exceedingly crafty and ingenious making me feel a bit better about our species.

Anyway, I am bummed out for the people of the Elbe region, but I thought I'd bring some light out in the matter.

At least this man won das behelfsmaessig boot
(best makeshift boat) award at das Fluechtlingslager Fest (refugee camp festival), aka das Bierzeltdorf stattlich(Giant Beertent Village).





http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20020817/s/1029584301.3758415995.jpg

 

[Texan]

hello starfish,

When I was in 6th grade, I lived in New Orleans with my family when hurricane Betsy hit the city. We lived on the west bank, and the flood water didn't quite make it into our house. But in the quarter, the water got very deep.

My dad was a federal employee, so he helped with search and rescue during the flood. One night, he came home and told of something he saw in the middle of the disaster.

On one of the narrow streets in the French Quarter, in several feet of water, a restaurant chef, in full white uniform with tall hat, was sitting on a table that had been turned upside down. He was paddling down the street using a huge wooden spoon.

I can picture that in New Orleans.......

 

[sexy-girl]

thats a funny and sad photo at the same time starfish thanks for posting it

when there has been floods in england you often see the same sort of thing ... people see all the destruction and i think they just think lets do something silly and stupid

 

[Starfish]

That is a great story Texan. Thank you for telling us.
I can invision it perfectly too. That would be a sight to see.


sexy, Yeah, What else can you do? I think a nervous breakdown would be impending if you didn't try and enjoy some of the aspects of it.

I saw a pic today of a woman sitting on some sand and she was just holding her head, and it just made me start to cry. I feel so bad for all those people.

 

[Starfish]

It's this photo that made me cry....

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20020816/lamdf88540.jpg

 

[Jonnyray]

Sadder still is the loss of life, especially the zoo animals who could escape on their own or like the bull elephant in Prague had to be put down because they were too freeked out to be moved safely. Mother Nature's a cruel bitch sometimes.

 

[Texan]

Sadder still is the loss of life, especially the zoo animals who could escape on their own or like the bull elephant in Prague had to be put down because they were too freeked out to be moved safely. Mother Nature's a cruel bitch sometimes.

hello Jonnyray.... I'm not disagreeing with you... Mother Nature can be a bitch........ But in the case of animals in a zoo, I wonder if the bitch is really mother nature...... After all, it wasn't Mother Nature who locked the animals up......

just a thought

 

[Starfish]

It is sad, either way you look at it.

I am a huge animal lover, so it upsets me a lot. I am not anti Zoo, but I am more pro Perserve or Zoological gardens held soley on the basis of having well represented, and increasingly developing 'whole ecosystem' management that is for educational and preservation purposes.

Most Zoos however are prisons, not preserves.

I am proud to live in an area that has a Zoological Garden and not a simply a display zoo that is cage after cage of animal.

http://www.toledozoo.org/

 

[sexy-girl]

that photo is very sad starfish i wish i could give that girl a hug but i guess she would need a lot more

 

[Hamletmaschine]

It's especially sad when you consider that Dresden has just in the last 5 years or so begun to rebuild itself from the Allied fire bombing that occurred near the end of WWII. I was there two years ago, and they were so proud of what they were finally able to do after years of Soviet occupation.

 

[Guest]

Very sad.

 

[Anais Dahl]

My best friend is in Prague right now, as he lives there with his wife, and he is lucky to live on a hill. He said that there are people coming across the border from Hungary, from everywhere, to help people and to be of assistance. he said it is amazing how big of twits people can often be day to day and then something awful happens and people seem to grow together and become "more human."

 

[Andreina]

The situation in Austria

As some of you may know I moved back to Austria a few weeks ago... I was not directly in the "mayhem-zone" but still we got a few flooded cellars here. About 100km north-west of where I live the situation is as follows...

http://images.derstandard.at/20020812/wasser2ooe.jpg

Salzburg
http://images.derstandard.at/20020812/wasser4salzburg.jpg

In Steyr the floods rose the 2nd floor of the buildings in the mediaeval old town

http://images.derstandard.at/20020812/wasser21.jpg

The Danube near Vienna

http://images.derstandard.at/20020813/wasser38.jpg