Sunday but not silent today

This may look like a hurricane on a Caribbean island but unfortunately it’s Genoa, a lovely port city in the Italian Riviera, where at least seven people were killed as flash floods tore through its centre last Friday, a week after torrential rain battered nearby coastal areas. There have always been floods but it is shocking that people still have to die because of them in 2011 when technology seem is so advanced and bad weather conditions should be forecast and measures taken to avoid these disasters. As I have mentioned before, in spire of all our might and arrogance, we are still powerless against the fury of nature.

(Photos from Primocanale)

After the snow, flooding...

I don’t like January. It’s too long, too cold, to grey. It seems never-ending. I just feel like going to bed and sleep until spring is finally here. But until when? There is no sparkle of hope in sight at the moment. After all the snow at the beginning of the year which caused chaos all over but put a light cover all over making us feel in a sort of fairy tale landscape, in the past few days the snow and ice melting and the rain downpour have caused flooding a bit all over in North Yorkshire. In spite of the multi-million flood defences both in York and in the village where I live, which is very famous for flooding, water can never be defeated completely. So, waiting and hoping for a bit of sunshine, can anybody explain to me where global warming is?

The river Ouse in York already over its average high level a few days ago.

Flood is coming ...


No chance for a picnic in my village ...

...but at least the ducks are happy!