Tags: Sibiu, Moldova, Romania, weather, flooding, Glasgow
Date: 25 June 2007 19:03:00
Cal's text did eventually get through, and as a result I learnt about a landslide in Glasgow due to the rain (story and pictures here). I have to say, this has left me feeling like I'm living in a parallel universe. It doesn't sound like the flooding on the south side is round the Stately Pile (thank goodness!) but it isn't that far away (the Victoria Infirmary is walking distance away, and is at the bottom of a hill so flooding of that area isn't all that surprising) - and yet I continue to be exhausted by the heat, and the news here today is of Romania facing its most serious drought (and possible food shortages) since 1946 because of the lack of rain. One of the women I met today said rain is forecast on Thursday, but according to yahoo weather it's just light showers, and doesn't sound like enough to sort out the dwindling water supplies. According to an email I got last week from friends in Moldova they're already having water shortages and supplies being cut off in the villages, and it's 37 degrees in the shade. Parts of Romania aren't far off that either (I'm actually lucky in Sibiu, although I moan about the heat it's cooler here than many places as the mountains protect us from the worst of the weather). And yet not that far away, in my other home, there's chaos due to flooding. The world's gone mad.