Unless I can buy a boat we are fucked. (PICS)
 

Every year the snow melts the ri8ver floods, this year it has melted faster and rained more than normal. We have a flood alert in our village.

The house usually over looks a farmers field and a nice sedat river. Today it overlooks a raging torrent and the warning is the water will rise.

http://www.paulmarkham.com/temp/flood1.jpg

Our house is the yellow one at the back. The barrier is something set into the dyke and erected for times like this.

http://www.paulmarkham.com/temp/flood3.jpg

This is the field where the farmer should be planting his spring greens this week, more likely he should plant rice.

http://www.paulmarkham.com/temp/flood2.jpg

Not far to go and it's into the street then into the fields behind the house.

http://www.paulmarkham.com/temp/flood4.jpg

This is where he keeps his tools.

http://www.paulmarkham.com/temp/flood6.jpg

See the difference in 24 hours and it's rising.

http://www.paulmarkham.com/temp/flood5.jpg

So I might be rowing to work next week.

The serious problem is the concrete barriers they have, the latest news is they may break.

This is the page that shows the problem.

http://www.mapmaker.cz/sap/pmo/cz/index.htm

The top graph is the water, the bottom the speed. I've been told they're not sure the dyke walls will hold.

More pictures to follow.

holy crap!!

Take care. Keep your computer dry! We can't afford loosing PMCS!

that is huge, so much water.

too much water sucks..

Haha yep, a boat is the only thing that will save your ass!
Boats are cool though, my father had one and we went out on it as kids...was great fun. I'd love one.

Be safe man.

Hope everything turns out ok for you

Rydz.

move back to the civilization ?

pretty wild shit, cool pictures!

Damn..time to move to higher ground man

that sucks paul hope nothing serious happens

I would be moving to higher ground just to be on the saqfe side

Wow, few things suck as bad as a flood. Keep safe.

Try to find one very fast. Don`t wait anymore

It seems to happen every couple of years there - how is Prauge fairing this time?

I would sell you our boat.
But unfortunately it sank to the bottom of the med.

Figure this one out....
We sink because of bad weather conditions and no fault of our own. (Unless you count my dumb ass newf-acadie husband thinking we could sail the mediterrian in feburary!)

Well we got hit with a fine for enviroment hazzards.

Thank Heavens for insurance!

nothing like being trapped in a overly wet dyke :winkwink:

I was in this position once, cept it surrounded us, completely, "they" flew in food from a helicopter to us, was turkey hoagies for the whole town... n ketchup!!

was crazy....good thing was school was right on the other side of the water bloackage....

holy shit there so many water all over the place!

holy cow.. hope things dont get worse there!! Good luck to you! :/

Good luck Paul. Maybe you can put some of the talent to work placing sandbags around your home to build your own barrier.

looks like every rainfall here in louisiana. :( hope you dont flood out!

This is what we are all watching. The river has actually dropped by an inch. But still in the red.

http://www.mapmaker.cz/sap/pmo/grafy/18.gif

The top graph is the water level, the bottom the speed.

More proof that you can not trust a dyke.

By the way, I will take your flooding and raise you about 2 feet of mud, and water that runs at about 35mph.

buy a jetski

where is that?

you need to move. i cant figure out why people live in places that look like that.

Same is happening here too, unfortuntely...

Egomancer

hope it don't get worse

as for me the road I live on is under construction, and will be for at least another year. But every time it rains, the water comes down from the mountains with a lot of mud, rock, and trash, and flows through the streets towards the beach. sometimes moving fast enough to move cars.

Why do I stay?? My house is 2 blocks from the ocean, and I can see the water from my office up strairs. I can hear the waves all day and night. I pay about 120 every 2 months for electricity, and the very best beef ( better than anything that you can get in the states is about 12$ a KILO. thats 2.2 pounds.

damn that sucks, behind my old place the creek would overflow from the melting snow and flood basements like mad.

sounds beautiful. i love the beach. as far as beef goes though, i beg to differ. i own a wholesale meat company and sell to the best/most exclusive restaurants in "The OC". I sell dry-aged (3 weeks), prime, organic/all natural beef that it's tough to match. It makes Kobe beef taste like beef jerkey.

Noone beats my meat!

Good luck with that . Definitly time to think about moving somewhere higher ugh ?

damn that sucks, be safe..

I can see it now, on CNN ... a rescue chopper is hovering over Paul's house ... a basket is lowered ... there is only room for ONE!

Paul throws in a plastic garbage bag full of 2257 documents, waves the pilot off ... shouts "The rest of us will take our chances"

No worries, the studio and offices are elsewhere.

Might have a FLOOD sale though.

Damn dude that reminds me of my home town Napa, hate the rain that's why I'm LA now. maybe we will see you here soon after a couple more of those.

But I remember rowing down the flooded streets, that actually kicked ass.

We like living in a village, usually very quiet.

Except for the chickens in the field behind us.

let me get this straight....

you're forced to deal with these floods and on a GOOD DAY you're awakened by roosters at sunrise?????

i am truly sorry bud. :(

Yikes I wouldn't want to be in that situation

That kind of says it.

But our daughter can play in the street without us worrying, we are not breathing in thumes and compared to cars and lorries the chickes are great. :1orglaugh