Rain, Rain - Go Away!
For the last 8 or 9 days in a row, I have consistently been woken up around 3 or 4am everyday by intense storms - echoing thunder, lightly that literally lit up my room, and rain falling so hard that it gives you a headache (one night, it even hailed strangely enough). During the day, the rains come and go, while the clouds remain - but at night, for the last week or so, the storms have been consistent.
Up until last week Moldova had been in the midst of a mini-drought, now it seems to have more rain than it can handle. As a country bordered by two rivers, Moldova has many flood-danger zones and people have been evacuated as the rivers have started to pour over. (This is not where I live, I live in the middle of the country - halfway in between Romania and Ukraine.) Ukraine and Romania seem to be having a worse time of it, with more intense flooding and urgent circumstances. I met the other day two Swedish travelers who had tried to visit Ukraine from Moldova, got on a bus to leave, but had to return because the roads were too flooded to pass.
Hopefully things dry up in the next few days.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L7442224.htm
http://news.trendaz.com/index.shtml?show=news&newsid=1256470&lang=EN
Up until last week Moldova had been in the midst of a mini-drought, now it seems to have more rain than it can handle. As a country bordered by two rivers, Moldova has many flood-danger zones and people have been evacuated as the rivers have started to pour over. (This is not where I live, I live in the middle of the country - halfway in between Romania and Ukraine.) Ukraine and Romania seem to be having a worse time of it, with more intense flooding and urgent circumstances. I met the other day two Swedish travelers who had tried to visit Ukraine from Moldova, got on a bus to leave, but had to return because the roads were too flooded to pass.
Hopefully things dry up in the next few days.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L7442224.htm
http://news.trendaz.com/index.shtml?show=news&newsid=1256470&lang=EN
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on Sunday, July 27, 2008 at 5:56 PM.
