Holy crap!

[inulro]

Peterborough, Ontario is flooded. (Coverage here and here, amongst other places, but those have the best pictures of the main streets). This is only vaguely interesting because I lived there for 3 years, and I'd be quite upset if there was much damage to the university. Which is located right on the river. As in some of the buildings rise right out of it.

One of the articles I haven't linked to referred Peterborough as "picturesque". They've gotta be kidding. It's a dump. A dump in which I spent some of the most important time of my life, but definitely a dump.

I'm rambling. I should probably go lie down.

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[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

Meanwhile, 10 million people in India are homeless due to the floods, but there's feck-all coverage on the TV news because that's happening to some poor furriners in bongo bongo land. Grrr.

[girfan.livejournal.com]

There was plenty of coverage about India & Nepal's flooding on BBC1 yesterday and today. I didn't know about Canada until now.

[inulro.livejournal.com]

The Ontario flooding is only getting coverage in the Canadian news sources, as far as I can tell.