Summer.......... where are you ? !

This picture was taken in Fraubrunnen here in Switzerland, show-
ing a factory standing "knee deep" under water.
The sewage system couldn't handle any more water .

Not a very pleasing picture, but this is what the sky looked like

at quarter to eight this morning.

The outside world looked as black as the Ace of Spades.

It'll be an understatement to say that it's been raining cats and

dogs here since the last few days.

Even an umbrella cannot take the weight of the rain beating

down - so going to the local supermarket is a matter of

swimming your way through the large puddles of water.

A rain storm such as this always seem to hit our neighbours in

Germany extra hard - the German border is only a 20minute drive

away, but boy, when it rains in Germany, it rains!

Although we're neighbours , it always amazes me that we are

never hit that hard by the chaos the storm leaves behind, as they

are.

These people are trapped on the roads by uprooted trees and

floodwater - to say the least.

Here by us, the night is alive with the sound of fire engines chasing to

pump out the overflowing rainwater that has once again found it's way into

many cellars.

If this doesn't stop soon, we won't have a Summer to enjoy before the

Winter season makes himself comfortable again.

Aah well, I suppose this is just another Summer playing "Hard to get!"