#Frankfurt, #Germany

[appassionato@mastodon.social]

#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

[strakolo@mastodon.social]

@appassionato Reminds me of „Spirited away“

[paoloredaelli@mastodon.uno]

@Strakolo @appassionato I was writing this very same comment! It looks like a scene from "Spirited away"!

[seyd@declin.eu]

Это наводнение?

[jchaven@social.sdf.org]

@appassionato
https://maps.app.goo.gl/KHYTLfNeNRN76mf49

[flxtr@social.tchncs.de]

@appassionato Ein Glück sind die Schranken geschlossen!

[christerk@mastodon.social]

@Seyd @appassionato

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

[phipe@diaspodon.fr]

@appassionato

ping @luxas

[unefamilleavelo@masto.bike]

@appassionato it really looks like the train in Spirited Away from Hayao Miyazaki.

[alicesutaren@shelter.moe]

@unefamilleavelo @appassionato I thought the same!

[dl1eam@nrw.social]

@appassionato five years ago https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/lbr7yl/train_in_nidderau_germany_by_michael_probst/

[reinald@nrw.social]

@appassionato a beautiful szenario for a model train. Saves a lot of time on landscape building.

[subtruth@mamot.fr]

@flxtr @appassionato Deutschland stabil

[appassionato@mastodon.social]

@flxtr

Safety above all.

[flxtr@social.tchncs.de]

@appassionato You never know

[squarefaelltein@mastodon.social]

@appassionato some date!?

[levin@hachyderm.io]

@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.)

[theoneswit@det.social]

@appassionato

looks like from chihiro

[em_and_future_cats@mastodon.social]

@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)

[appassionato@mastodon.social]

Here's AI take on it:

(I asked it to interpret it as a metaphor).

What do you make of it?

It titled it "The Iron Ridge: Infrastructure on the Brink."

#AI
#infrastructure
#railway
#bridge
#floods