
Where has the small street under the stairs gone?
Since last week, the Danube has been angry with us. With the help of wave of rain and melting snow, it sends its message to us: flood. Tram has been long gone since the railway is under water. Zsolt has to take another route to work—which is longer, what a surprise. since then since the railway is drowned. Outside Budapest, people have been evacuated from their home. Farm and roads are under water. The brown water is everywhere. Now, we have a reason to worry. The river is only about 30 m from our flat. Each afternoon we’d take a little walk to check whether things have gotten better. There is only an estimated week left until it returns to normal, so they said.
Surprisingly, a quirky sign has appeared at Battyhány tér:
I have no idea who put it there, but the disaster has really become a tourist attraction as I saw. There were vendors selling pretzels for Ft 400 and beer for Ft 800 to the tourists gawping at the carnage along the shores of the Danube. People were now taking photographs of people eating popcorn, drinking beer and taking photographs, as Pestiside reported. Well, at least they still manage to be happy.




wow….thanks for sharing…wouldn’t know about it as local news didn’t highlight it…hope all is well there..
Comment by Apples — April 7, 2006 @ 7:25 am
Yeah, hopefully it won’t get to our road
Comment by ayulittleone — April 7, 2006 @ 6:00 pm
Reminds me of Ground Zero — clogged with tourists and vendors selling everything from T-shirts to snow globes. I even saw a guy selling refrigerator magnets there once with the image of the tower’s collapsing.
Ugh.
Comment by Aaron — April 11, 2006 @ 1:31 am
It’s almost the same like I had 2 weeks ago. The weather can be unpredictable and we got trapped in a heavy storm, suddenly here’s come a tornado that hit Gallatinn TN. We were running late but had we been on time we would have been right next to the path of the tornado. The storm only lasted a couple hours, but the damage it left is unbelieveable! Streets had to be closed down because of all the people trying to drive into the neighborhoods to take pictures of the carnage. There were more reports on the news showing the physical damage rather than stories about the lost lives. So sad!
Comment by diya — April 21, 2006 @ 4:21 pm
Geez, I hope you’re all right though. I haven’t heard about that from local news.
Comment by ayulittleone — April 21, 2006 @ 7:00 pm