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Rhine/Main/Danube river conditions right now?
I haven't seen the kind of TV coverage this year as in previous
years, so the little blurb in this morning's paper about flooding in southern Europe caught me by surprise. We're heading off on a Uniworld Amsterdam-Vienna cruise soon, and while we seem to be headed out of the immediately affected area, does anybody have current info, or a source for it? Of course there's nothing we can do about it, but maybe it will take our minds off of worrying whether Northwest Airlines will actually get us there. -- Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN | |
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"Bert Hyman" wrote in message ... I haven't seen the kind of TV coverage this year as in previous years, so the little blurb in this morning's paper about flooding in southern Europe caught me by surprise. We're heading off on a Uniworld Amsterdam-Vienna cruise soon, and while we seem to be headed out of the immediately affected area, does anybody have current info, or a source for it? http://news.google.co.uk/news?q=danu...&sa=N&tab =wn Keith ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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Bert Hyman schrieb:
I haven't seen the kind of TV coverage this year as in previous years, so the little blurb in this morning's paper about flooding in southern Europe caught me by surprise. We're heading off on a Uniworld Amsterdam-Vienna cruise soon, and while we seem to be headed out of the immediately affected area, does anybody have current info, or a source for it? Of course there's nothing we can do about it, but maybe it will take our minds off of worrying whether Northwest Airlines will actually get us there. The airports of Vienna/Munich/Frankfurt will not be flooded. There will be high water at Regensburg/Passau and more locations on the Danube. http://www.welt.de/data/2004/01/14/223203.html There seem to be fewer problems on the Rhine. Flying to and starting from Amsterdam will take a while, so most problems on the Danube might be gone before your arrival, besides damaged buildings. Regards, ULF |
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"Bert Hyman" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ... I haven't seen the kind of TV coverage this year as in previous years, so the little blurb in this morning's paper about flooding in southern Europe caught me by surprise. We're heading off on a Uniworld Amsterdam-Vienna cruise soon, and while we seem to be headed out of the immediately affected area, does anybody have current info, or a source for it? This source is in German, but as it's mostly names, numbers and graphics, it's pretty self-explanatory. Water levels, listed from upriver to downriver: (the pale green line means: higher than that - no ships.) Danube: http://www.elwis.de/gewaesserkunde/Wasserstaende/wasserstaendeUebersichtGrafik.html.php?gw=DONAU. High and rising. Rhine: http://www.elwis.de/gewaesserkunde/Wasserstaende/wasserstaendeUebersichtGrafik.html.php?gw=RHEIN .. Upriver high, but falling, Mid- and Lowriver low, but rising. Doesn't seem to be rising to problematic levels, though. (The red dots are projections for the next day.) Main: http://www.elwis.de/gewaesserkunde/Wasserstaende/wasserstaendeUebersichtGrafik.html.php?gw=MAIN. Low, stable. Main-Danube channel: http://www.elwis.de/gewaesserkunde/Wasserstaende/wasserstaendeUebersichtGrafik.html.php?gw=MDK. Medium low, stable. You can look up places he http://www.elwis.de/gewaesserkunde/Wasserstaende/Karte/index.html hth, inge |
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In article , Bert Hyman
wrote: As I said, something to take my mind off of worrying about the Northwest Airlines mechanic's strike :-) That COULD be a problem. I quit flying NW long and long ago for other reasons, however. -- Mary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar) You can't reason with someone whose first line of argument is that reason doesn't count. Isaac Asimov Erilar's Cave Annex: http://www.airstreamcomm.net/~erilarlo |
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In erilar
wrote: In article , Bert Hyman wrote: As I said, something to take my mind off of worrying about the Northwest Airlines mechanic's strike :-) That COULD be a problem. I quit flying NW long and long ago for other reasons, however. It's almost impossible to get out of Minneapolis any other way and I've never been seriously inconvenienced by them. But in this case the cruise company, Uniworld, booked me on KLM, which in its North American incarnation is Northwest. -- Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN |
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On 24 Aug 2005 13:31:24 GMT, Bert Hyman wrote:
I haven't seen the kind of TV coverage this year as in previous years, so the little blurb in this morning's paper about flooding in southern Europe caught me by surprise. We're heading off on a Uniworld Amsterdam-Vienna cruise soon, and while we seem to be headed out of the immediately affected area, does anybody have current info, or a source for it? Of course there's nothing we can do about it, but maybe it will take our minds off of worrying whether Northwest Airlines will actually get us there. I worked on a Danube cruise last week (Passau - Melk - Esztergom - Budapest - Bratislava - Vienna - Dürnstein - Passau). The ship was due to cruise this week from Passau via the Main - Donau Canal and the River Main to the Rhine. Just this minute spoken to a colleague who tells me the ship is stuck at Deggendorf, as the water level is exceptionally high and it cannot get under the bridge there. Keith, Bristol, UK DE-MUNG for email replies |
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Bert Hyman schrieb:
(Ulf Kutzner) wrote in : The airports of Vienna/Munich/Frankfurt will not be flooded. There will be high water at Regensburg/Passau and more locations on the Danube. http://www.welt.de/data/2004/01/14/223203.html This article appears to be from January 2004. Grrr/ooops. My mistake. However, I did follow radia/TV news. Big problems at Kelheim, no major problems yet on the Rhine. Regards, ULF |
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