300 Miles away from me people lost everything. Flood in Saxony and Bavaria, and other countries and no end in sight. Families lost their just built houses. Men lost their jobs, factories. Farmers lost their land and harvest. 12 Years of building up in former "Eastern Germany" are completely flooded.
In Dresden the Semper-Opera, the Dresden Zwinger and the Kathedral are already given up.
Many historic cities are destroyed.
Drinking water is rare. What will happen, when the water is gone? It will leave the dirt meters high.
Policemen, firemen, soldiers and volunteers working day and night.
All the day pictures on TV, we only knew from far away. Just like in war times.
But there are other pictures: People helping each other, filling thousands of sand bags, handing from one to the next in an endless chain to save the embankments. Solidarity.
And I'm just doing my job in a nice summer with sun and 30 degrees Celsius. Mawing my lawn. What can I do? Just sending money.
Hoping the levels down.
Arthur Dent
[ 08-18-2002, 07:54 PM: Message edited by: ArthurDent ]
In Dresden the Semper-Opera, the Dresden Zwinger and the Kathedral are already given up.
Many historic cities are destroyed.
Drinking water is rare. What will happen, when the water is gone? It will leave the dirt meters high.
Policemen, firemen, soldiers and volunteers working day and night.
All the day pictures on TV, we only knew from far away. Just like in war times.
But there are other pictures: People helping each other, filling thousands of sand bags, handing from one to the next in an endless chain to save the embankments. Solidarity.
And I'm just doing my job in a nice summer with sun and 30 degrees Celsius. Mawing my lawn. What can I do? Just sending money.
Hoping the levels down.
Arthur Dent
[ 08-18-2002, 07:54 PM: Message edited by: ArthurDent ]
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