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[astridv]

My internet is back! Internet, I missed you so!
Last night we got the rain of the century. Another weather record broken, sigh. I'm immensely grateful we're living on the outskirts of town on what passes for a hill in Westphalia... half the city was underwater last night.
Hope all my fellow Northern German flisters are okay, with hopefully dry basements.

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[yvi]

No rain in Braunschweig, which I hear passes as "Norddeutschland" (it's 200 kilometers to each coast! This confuses me)

[yvi]

Wait, I have to correct myself. The husband says it rained quite a bit around noon. I was at work in Wolfsburg and nothing happened there.

[astridv]

Roomie just told me that apparently Münster go the brunt of it. Yay. ;)
Fotostrecke... http://www.wetteronline.de/fotostrecken/2014-07-29-un?part=single

[yvi]

Oh, wow! That looks pretty bad.

And now it's been raining heavily here for hours as well...

[madripoor_rose]

Yikes. That's a good size flood.

[ratcreature]

Glad to read you are okay. I wondered about you during my enforced internet break when I heard about the storms in Münster.

Hamburg thankfully remained dry, except for the occasional drops. Actually the weather news yesterday recapped July and said that Hamburg had 120% of the average July sunshine, was 2.5° warmer than average, and had only 69% of the usual rainfall. So we were warm and dry here. None of awful Noah's flood impression so many other areas seemed like.

[astridv]

Yeah, looks like this one was a local thing, we got the brunt of it. Five times the amount for July, all within a few hours. I'm so glad we're living on a slope. Everywhere you go you can here people talk about flood damage.