Flood in my city

[ronthepon]

Fresh morning everyone, 7 AM and the water's come up to even higher levels. The district administration's adviced the public to take shelter at a height of above twenty feet ground level.

No worries for me there, I'm six floors up. I'll just use the final remaining power of the laptop now, god knows when I'll have decent 220Volts ao 50Hz AC again.

[Mercedes Benzene]

Awwww. Poor cars.
Is your car okay?
Have there been any injuries in your area yet?
When do they expect the water to recede?

[Boerseun]

Sheesh! Good luck, man! This is gonna sound stupid, but have you got enough water? Drinking water, that is.

[ronthepon]

It's nearing 8 PM and it's going to be the second night in the flood time. The waters seem to have reached the highest level intended by god, and are beginning to get into the 'stay' stage.

According to reports, sixty percent of the city is flooded, and the situation is really bad.

Here at home things are getting grim, I do not expect the power to return until the waters do'nt recede, and in the meantime the drinking water supplies are running out.

The only hope is the UPS I'm using (and it's currently being used to power the electronic water purifier so I just connected the laptop in paralell).
All day it's been rather dull and boring, with the horrible sounds of howling dogs seeing doom, and car sirens blaring.

I just can't wait for this to end, It's really getting kinda irritating now.

[Zythryn]

Take care of yourself Ron. Don't surf to much, pure water is more important than surfing!

[ronthepon]

Ah finally!

It's been tough time, but I guess that it turned out to be no more than a costly inconvinience to me.

All the time, we lived without clean water, electricity or outside access of any kind. Naturally, as you'd expect, we did not last long.

It got down to moving six floors down, bringing water up in buckets and using it for flushing the toilets, using two mugs of water for a bath, and constant levels of vasopressin in the blood.

Two days ago, the water showed the first signs of going away, and boy was it a relief to find that it would end so soon.

We got down onto the ground floor, then began to clean the cars (see the picture I had put up?). It seemed like the car shall go to hell. I found an entire nest of ants taking shelter inside (and my first reaction was to flush them with water.)

The next day, the army took over form the civil adminstration (which was 100% immobilised) and then did the actual relief begin.

From then on, helicopters constantly flew over the skies, constantly dropping water, milk and food packets on the buildings. We got only a water that day.

Then boats came, loaded with food and candles etc. When the reducing water levels water made it possible for it, tractors loaded with supplies came.
In those times, I saw just how men can become animals, and there was a mad rush to get hold of those supplies.

By then, we got news (on the radios) that the army was really doing a good job of relief, fixing power supplies in areas where the water levels dropped well enough. That was excellent... 'Yaay for the army' kind of.

Finally, when I woke up today, there was no sign of flood water, even though the wet mud was much worse.

[Tormod]

Glad to hear it's over. Thanks for reporting Ron!

[TheFaithfulStone]

Welcome back Ron. Glad to hear you made it safely.

TFS