#Frankfurt, #Germany
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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 some date!?
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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 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.)
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A regional train passes a railroad crossing between flooded fields in Nidderau-Eichen, near Frankfurt
Photograph: Michael Probst/AP
#photography
#floods
#roads
#trains
#ClimateDiarylooks like from chihiro
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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 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) -
A regional train passes a railroad crossing between flooded fields in Nidderau-Eichen, near Frankfurt
Photograph: Michael Probst/AP
#photography
#floods
#roads
#trains
#ClimateDiaryHere'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
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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
#floods2/
• Fragility and Persistence: The image captures a moment of extreme tension between human engineering and natural forces. It echoes the "frozen clocks" by showing a system at its absolute limit, where the "normal" functions of a crossing—waiting for a train, driving across—have been rendered impossible or surreal by the disaster. -
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• Fragility and Persistence: The image captures a moment of extreme tension between human engineering and natural forces. It echoes the "frozen clocks" by showing a system at its absolute limit, where the "normal" functions of a crossing—waiting for a train, driving across—have been rendered impossible or surreal by the disaster.3/
Ultimately, the Frankfurt crossing is a metaphor for a world where the structures we rely on are becoming increasingly isolated, forced to operate on "islands" of safety as the environmental landscape shifts around them, -
A regional train passes a railroad crossing between flooded fields in Nidderau-Eichen, near Frankfurt
Photograph: Michael Probst/AP
#photography
#floods
#roads
#trains
#ClimateDiaryIt's like that scene from Miyazaki's "Spirited away". Wonderful.
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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 That looks surreal.
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@appassionato That looks surreal.
Welcome to the Dystopia.
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