Water,Water, Everywhere

As you may know, Switzerland is aflood. I actually didn't know this until yesterday, since I did not hear/read/see any news the whole time that I was in Samedan, until yesterday morning when Reto looked at the nzz and found out about it. We came back to Aarau yesterday and I took a few photos.

I'm planning to go and take more photos for comparative purposes next week (or whenever the water is at its normal level again). The damage that the water has caused in Aarau seems to have been mainly related to the flooding of some of the houses along the edge of the river (I saw a few people taking their muddy belongings out of their flooded cellars and garages and then pumping the water out and back into the river, but most seemed to be fine), the accumulation of masses of trees and branches at bridges and weirs and the electricity station thing that is built across the river (as seen below),and the potentially disastrous flooding of the local athletics field, soon to be home of the stone-throwing competition part of the Schwing- und Älplerfest that you will no doubt read all about here in a few weeks (click on the bit in that link that says "Offnen Sie unseren Trailer HIER" etc.. for a blurb (possibly incomprehensible) and some pictures (entertaining) of what to expect). The ducks and swans seem to be enjoying paddling around in the newly-formed shallows in the grass, though.