The storms and floods. Until now these kinds of things were sort of modest, or childsized. In Europe that is. Now not so much. I remember big events like this week in Spain happened literally never before. Or have I blocked it out?…. I remember last big storm with actual damages in Europe was perhaps in January 2009 when the winds were so strong and violent it took down hectares of forests in Sweden and Norway, and in other countries nearby too. The coastline was literally mowed down. It took some two if not three years to clean it all up.

The earthquake in Turkey in 2023 woke us up a bit because it’s generally not known there are minor quakes every now and then in this region. 

Before that in 1997 the Wisla (or Vistula) river in Poland flood over and took kilometres of roads with her. And eleven people or so. That flood was scary for me personally because I was there when it was going on. I saw water take Cinquecento into the abyss right infront of me. Gone. Together with the elderly couple and road. Gone and never seen again. I was speechless for days. The odd good thing was that the cities were very clean after the waters calmed down. It took all loose items away including rubbishbins and rubbish aswell. 

Now again. People missing, people died. In water or because of water. How horrible can it get? Oh, well, it is way worse in some parts of the world. The occupied lands. Let a troubled people in, get a reward of death. And all that because of drunkard called Churchill and evil hooknosed comrades who helped this drunkard out of bankruptcy and traded his personal debts into Palestine. Lease forever which turned into occupation forever. Pity. If you don’t recognise occupation, genocide then you have no business being here. It’s not war. There should be no israhell in the first place. Damn roaches.

So the storm now. I live by the sea, it’s behind my house roughly 200 metres to go. Yesterday I was doing my business in toilet and the weirdest thing I saw – waves in the toiletbowl!!! Hilarious and yet not! The winds were so strong making the sea stormy and waves high, obviously. So the sewerage system ended up having storm aswell. Went out to see the storm. Yes, lovely, my favourite time of the year. Yes, dangerous too. A few roofs, many a trees, things like that are the victims of this weather. Still many households have no electricity. Still we are much better than our friends in Valencia. 

Stay cool and warm,

XOXOX