Day: July 20, 2021

Stuck | Festgesetzt

EnglishI was supposed to return home today, but nothing went according to plan. Instead I spent hours at the train station, after my first train was canceled, trying to catch a train – any train – that would take me home. Only to realize that no trains were going. Period. Only much later did I realize the reason for why nothing was moving: the torrential rains have caused serious flooding all around the wider area of where I live. For me it means two things:1. I might be stuck for days to come.2. I escaped a life-threatening situation. The subway in the city where I was headed had flooded, and caused fatalities. Videos were sent to me showing people stuck in subway trains, and the water reaching up to their necks. Had things gone according to plan, I would have been in that very subway at exactly the time it was flooded. So, as I began to understand the extent of the situation, I also realized I was extremely thankful that today nothing went according …