It's Not Good News

Yesterday was to be the celebration of George Frideric Handel--his birth, his life, his music. The celebration has been held annually in his birthplace--Halle, or Halle an der Saale--for many, many years. 

But the celebration was cancelled because of the flooding in Europe, specifically for Halle, from the Saale river which runs through the town. That river has swollen to 26 feet above its highest mark. That's the highest it has been in 400 years.

The Saale is a tributary of the Elbe River, which is flooding, and Halle is only one of the hundreds of towns in Germany now flooded and threatened with ruin. 

In this country, tornadoes may have passed finally, but Hurricane Andrea has hit Florida and will travel up the east coast of the whole country to New England, dropping rain and hail and blowing devastation, too.

Here in Boise, things are quiet. It's finally hot.

Addendum June 7:  Andrea is a Tropical Storm, slightly weaker than a hurricane but still capable of much destruction. A tornado touched down in Gulf Port Florida yesterday, June 6. It's not over.