Last night, on my to the weekly soccer match with my coworkers, I found out I couldn’t cross the street anymore. More to the point, not unless I gather about half the water from the street in my snickers. With my snickers in my hands, I found places where the water was almost as high as my knees.
What happened? It rained. Maybe it rained a little more and worse than in the past, but some of my coworkers told me that in some areas of the town they saw sewers that were backing up, almost as an artesian well. Big and important streets of the city found themselves covered in minimum 20 cm of water.
From what I heard, a bus got water in it’s engine, a gym was flooded completely, some water got int our company building, drivers that drove their cars until they bumped their cars with another cars, with drivers blinded by the rain.
What I saw: some wheel covers floating, gracefully, on the city waters, a cab-driver with it’s license plate held in place by only one screw and folded under the car, a coworker that lost his license plate.
In this conditions, something is definitely wrong, and I’m not referring at the end of the world. All I’m thinking about is the quality of our public roads and sewers in Oradea. Are they down or is it only in my head?
The silver lining is that the sun finally came out … or I would have been rowing all the way to the job.
As a friend said:
Code Yellow… God damn, it rained …
My name is Victor Pop, I’ll celebrate my 25th birthday in exactly two months and my birthtown is Arad. I work as a programmer at a software company in Oradea, and in this blog I’ll try to tell you my ideas about life, if you’re interested. You’re welcome to share your opinions regarding my posts.
