#Frankfurt, #Germany

A regional train passes a railroad crossing between flooded fields in Nidderau-Eichen, near Frankfurt

Photograph: Michael Probst/AP

#photography
#floods
#roads
#trains
#ClimateDiary

@appassionato Reminds me of „Spirited away“
@Strakolo @appassionato I was writing this very same comment! It looks like a scene from "Spirited away"!
Это наводнение?

@Seyd @appassionato

Да, сейчас в Западной Европе идет «небольшой» дождь.
(4 шторма подряд за месяц)

@appassionato it really looks like the train in Spirited Away from Hayao Miyazaki.
@appassionato a beautiful szenario for a model train. Saves a lot of time on landscape building.

@appassionato interesting detail here is that this is all intentional: the area is a floodplain that gets flooded naturally in periods of heavy rain or melting snow. When the rail line was constructed, the rails were built on top of a dam. Apparently that was in 1880!

Source (in German): https://www.bz-berlin.de/deutschland/hochwasser-bahn-faehrt-nidderau

(Maybe you already know all this, but I was curious so I did a quick search for an explanation.)

Hochwasser? Egal, die Bahn fährt!

Die Auen der Nidder in Nidderau sind von Hochwasser überschwemmt. Nur eine Bahnstrecke hält sich in diesem Bereich über Wasser.

B.Z. – Die Stimme Berlins

@appassionato

looks like from chihiro 😂

@appassionato studio Ghibli image irl right here 🙀😹
I love how it looks, but it must be hard for people living there. (And yes I know that this general area has *historically* seen lots of flooding in the past, but I don’t think this has been normal in the last few decades, and of course, people can correct me if I’m wrong, it certainly has been getting worse since climate change)
It's like that scene from Miyazaki's "Spirited away". Wonderful.
@appassionato That looks surreal.

@nlupo

Welcome to the Dystopia.