Flood Watch 2010

[Kuremari]

an Unidentified Foreign Blue Object




it is hard to say, if the water is rising still or not...

[Jo UK]

Hah!
It's still there at 20.46. Caught the other side of the floating bridge!

[AivarRuukel]

an Unidentified Foreign Blue Object




it is hard to say, if the water is rising still or not...

I will be there tomorrow for 2 a'clock tea. Inspecting the UFBO and checking how many centimeters there is to the green line (2010 level).

[AivarRuukel]

5 meters will be - an interview with mr. Tõnis Riis who mesures water in Riisa Station, please someone translete, I will be soon checking the webcam.

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[Liis]

Aivar's interview with Tõnis Riis, water guardian and observer since 1994 at Riisa(see Aivars post above):
"AIVAR RUUKEL: Really quite high water this year,
TÕNIS RIIS: Misty, mist hides the best view away
AIVAR RUUKEL: Road is under water too
TÕNIS RIIS: The road at Riisojas (?) too, it should have more water than our road, it started flowing over one day earlier, when we hadn’t any flood yet
AIVAR RUUKEL: Is it still rising?
TÕNIS RIIS: Well, 4 cm since last night
AIVAR RUUKEL: So the rise hasn’t stopped yet?
TÕNIS RIIS: It will go on during day too, 4 cm or so maybe, more water is still coming, so it is definitely rising, but not so much
AIVAR RUUKEL: But when will it stabilise then?
TÕNIS RIIS: (points upwards) Well, he up there might know
AIVAR RUUKEL: So you haven’t been told?
TÕNIS RIIS: Well, as said, God up there only knows, see
AIVAR RUUKEL: How long have you been measuring the water levels?
TÕNIS RIIS: From -94.
AIVAR RUUKEL (view of road bridge & water level posts): But the measuring posts seem to be running out or be run over, is that your last post?
TÕNIS RIIS: It won’t be rising that much more any longer. And the last one is the high one there, there is still half a metre left. And after that, well, you put lines on the wall, somehow the measuring gets done anyway.
AIVAR RUUKEL: And what is the level today?
TÕNIS RIIS: 493
AIVAR RUUKEL: 493? So we will have 5 m before it is over then?
TÕNIS RIIS: Cant say, Don’t really want any more either, to tell the truth.
AIVAR RUUKEL: No more water, eh? Only this isn’t as you would want and like, you just have to measure the water ...
TÕNIS RIIS: No, not as I would like it, it isn't, no ...
AIVAR RUUKEL: OK ..."

Sorry, Aivar, the video sound was tricky this side of the Baltic, send a transcript & I promise to do (a little) better !

[Jo UK]

Liis, thanks for translating. Still a little higher, then?

[juta]

Guests

[Jo UK]

When did the UFBO disappear?

[Kuremari]

hmm when i came home after 3pm it was there ...but i missed the vanishing moment
but hei, this is exactly what UFBOs do - they disappear

[Jo UK]

hmm when i came home after 3pm it was there ...but i missed the vanishing moment
but hei, this is exactly what UFBOs do - they disappear

Oh,. good.
Everything is normal, then

[Liis]

Still a little higher, then?

Oh yes. But the rate of the level rise had decreased - different thing .

But today it doesn't seem to go any higher at all. ( level chart including April 7 here http://www.emhi.ee/index.php?ide=9,654&id=5)

What will it all look like when it emerges from under the water - washed clean or all muddy?

[alice44]

There should be a foul muddy layer of wonderful new soil additives

[Liis]

There should be a foul muddy layer of wonderful new soil additives

Hmmm. A kind of Nile Delta agriculture - before the Assuan dam - on Aivar's kitchen floor?

[Kuremari]

the water level is going down! see..the green mark is visible again!

[AivarRuukel]

Floating bridge becoming a suspention bridge again!

[Kuremari]

the orange mark is out of water and i saw two swans?? swimming there in the morning!

[lutra]

:) Swans! heh, in practice it is wery expectable. All the flooded fields around Estonia are full of thousands of swans and tens of thousands geeses. On the farmlands the water is dryng out fast and the birds will seek new places for refueling and resting before heading further north. Anyway, it is still too deep (approx 50 cm should be less) for swans to feed at the cameras sight.

[AivarRuukel]

Find a difference with previous pictures!

[Kuremari]

Where did you put that tree??

but then the bridge looks like a bridge again and there is land visible

[alice44]

And the building is out of the water.