It wasn't even like that it felt that it had been raining non stop over the last couple of years. I mean, previous the winter did feel like this. It felt like the rain had been pouring down for weeks in a row. No wonder back then that at some point flooding started to happen.
Not like a flash flood situation, but more that the soil in the woods wasn't drying up anymore, and when you would feel the concrete walls in basements...they would feel more damp than you would actually want them to.
One of my neighbours had some dripping inside his basement, which was like sweating of the concrete just because the ground water level was so high. He said he had lived there for more than 25 years and that was the first time that this had happend.
In other words...last year was exceptionally wet and we all saw the consequences of that here.
The amount of wet socks that I had encountered by walking the dog and it was just a little deeper mud than it had seemed initially...yeah that is just a small thing.
But I also heard from some of the woods here that they remained wet for so long with the water not being able to sink into the soil again, that the roots of the trees had start to rot. That meant a lot more trees had tipped over during the summer storms and also a lot of them were removed because you could just see that they were gone. When walking you can see them everywhere. And also during these bigger winds if you listen carefully, you can hear them fall down with a big thump... No bueno...
And again?
But now recently it didn't feel so wet at all. Ofcourse it rained and the winter was gray, but it didn't feel extremely wet. But here in the Netherlands we are on the last point of the water before it hits the sea. That means when it rains in Germany or snows in Switzerland, eventually that water will hit the rivers and reach us. Still all fine...That is why there are rivers.
But when there is a bit of rain here, the soil is still saturated and the rivers and creeks are already full enough, that means the water can't really go anywhere.
That results in these fields going under water again. The green fields turning into water fields which seem almost look more like a rice field at this point.
I mean when you look at the top foto, the normal situation is not that a tree is standing in the water with its feet. But this is a the case again.
The sight ofcourse is beautiful though...A lower sun over the fields and water reflecting everything back. But I do wonder how it will look in a couple of weeks. Or maybe nothing will happen and in a couple of weeks just a lot of grass will grow over here...who knows!
What I do know is that I do very much enjoy walking around in these sights, taking a look at what is going on..Maybe it is just the wrong choice of shoe that makes the socks so wet every time.
Have you thought about buying a kayak or a small boat? 😬😬😬
Oe...that is a good reason to get a boat indeed :D 'Sorry babe, the land is flooding, I need a boat' hahahahahha
Man...so much muddddd
Hehehe some mozes skills would come in handy here. Split the sea, walk on water...
Lol.
If only…
Regardless, pretty pictures ya took there.
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Gore-tex or other similar material for your shoes, and you're good to go! And true, although not the usual, but the landscape does look really cool. Reminds me of an artificial dam they built in one of our interior regions, and yuo could see similar landscapes, trees in the middle of water... they looked even better at sunset!
I get what you mean with those sceneries. Where the landis flooded to create space for the dams. Places that were first villages and now you can dive towards them haha.
Nehhh, its not that deep water here indeed. Some goretex shoes here would surely be a good thing! Or those fly-fishermans high boots :)
Stick to the goretex! :)))
Very beautiful picture my friend
Thanks a bunch...