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The deluge continues over Germany, throughout Bavaria, in Munich along with the cold that won’t quit. I’ll be making a doctor’s visit soon if the nose draining and donkey cough persist through the weekend. Another thing that gets to me is the way weather folk talk about rain:
“Am Flughafen fielen in den letzten 48 Stunden rund 61 Liter pro Quadratmeter, in Oberhaching 78 – gut 17 Liter mehr” -Abendzeitung
Did you get that? 61 liters of rain per cubic meter in 48 hours! It sounds like a mouthful but if you keep in mind that a liter per cubic meter is just a fancy way of saying 1 mm of rainfall, it’s not so intimidating.
Still I like to keep it real and get back to my convoluted English-unit roots. That means our balcony garden probably got somewhere around 2.7 inches of rain in the last two days. Whew. I can rest well knowing that these measurements are totally heavy but still okay compared to the bath tub ranges some are reporting in Austria.
Speaking of balcony garden here’s a collage to document the green thumbs Alex and I are developing.
Who would have thought. Not I because I honestly don’t know what I’m doing. That one purple petunia developed into a gazillion little flower minions in just a couple of weeks. Yes, I put the whole mystery mix package into 5 flower pots and then couldn’t decide which seedlings would experience the ‘pluck and chuck’. Hopefully the flowers survive all this rain for a real photo shoot.
