Another week, another weekly observations thread!
Share whats happening in your hometown, region or country that might not be in the focus of international media!
Please provide a general location. For Example:
Location: Southern Ireland
Picture: Rhodes in flames
In the more rural areas during unfortunate peek times you may not be able to reach 991 immediately but get a “caller is busy” sound.
There is multiple reasons for it one being a lack of volunteers at the fire department due to people having to take 2nd jobs to be able to pay their bills.
West Germany.
Thats interesting, haven’t heard about that problem yet. Didn’t know that the Notrufzentralen are also staffed with volunteers. Do you think that mandatory fire brigade service (Pflichtfeuerwehr) might become more common in the next years?
The notrufzentrale isn’t staffed with volunteers but the problem is rather if they have no one to dispatch this might happen
Ah, I misunderstood you then. Very concerning
Yeah I didn’t explain well
Israel, it is so hot, I’m used to vent at night. The nights are now 20-30c.
Also the little democracy we had is going away.
Location: Colorado.
This weekend I backpacked through some mountainous areas like where I used to live in Colorado 20 years ago. The woods seemed oddly…sterile? But you could only really see it if you paid close attention. Fewer birds, fewer small critters, just an eerie quiet. And no bugs except for pests—tons of flies and mosquitoes.
It’s a lonely quiet world.
Edit: Forgot to add that there was a tornado on Pikes Peak. Yeah.
Meanwhile in coastal Southern California: it’s 17C and tonight the restaurants have their outdoor gas-burning heating on. For lulz, or is it just naïveté, or foolishness, or recklessness? On the other side of the mountains they reached 35C and the rest of the state is under a heatwave. “I can’t even.”
(And some have flames inside narrow vertical tubes, again for the fun of it. As if the CO2 emergency was something happening elsewhere.)
Location: Norway. I’m escaping the heat wave of Southern Germany.
Norway looks to be in decent shape to my shallow tourist eye. Not a lot of birds, though. Denmark we passed through looked like it was in a long-term drought however.
Not yet back, but the weather in southern Germany whiplashed to 14 deg C and torrential rain. Some locations have been hit with ginormous hail. Wonder about the harvest this year.
Canada; it’s so hot and for so long, and whenever it’s not sunny it seems to be a bad thunderstorm or tornado warning?? So different from when I was growing up
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Tasmania. Winter is really warm, so warm that we have flowers and blossoms appearing during times we’d normally have frosty conditions.
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I see a few in Southern Germany but not a lot. Right now the weather is too wet and cold for them to fly.
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