I have a friend who lives right by the bank of the Danube in Budapest. Tried phoning but no answer. She owns a snorkel and has a magnificent pair of lungs, so I'm not too worried.
No, we're not near it.
But we stayed in a guesthouse just two weeks ago ... where they've got a flood never recorded before. (The river there, the Weiße Elster, usually has 80cm water or less - mostly a lot less. Yesterday, it was 651 cm ...)
Most of my relatives live in the same region as Walter -- Nordrhein-Westfalen.
I am an expert, however, on lederhosen and moisture. My brother and I wore lederhosen as children only. My mother later gave them to my two sons when they were in a German-American children's choir.
Unfastening the front of lederhosen is cumbersome when you are in a hurry to go to the bathroom. So yes, the leather did get somewhat stiff.
Unfastening the front of lederhosen is cumbersome when you are in a hurry to go to the bathroom. So yes, the leather did get somewhat stiff.
Am I correct, Walter?
Actually, I was quite an expert in opening them.
One of the reasons, by the way, why I joined the navy - their trousers have the same mechanism. (The other reason was that I could swim but not fly.)
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Walter Hinteler
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Tue 4 Jun, 2013 10:16 am
@Lordyaswas,
Lordyaswas wrote:
I thought it was only the UK that had rain in summer. Has Angela been upsetting those Norse gods recently?
In most parts of the flooded states, rivers are higher than ever recorded.
Angela uses the flood as a kind of pre-election campaign (like Schröder did during the 2002 flood).
On a more serious note: 10.000 inhabitants are just now evacuated in Bitterfeld, close to Dresden. And the flood in Dresden itself could be the highest ever ...