Gregor Vukasinovič
Swift and Unbureaucratic
They say this every single time when nature throws in a reminder of who's at the helm on spaceship Earth. In the news, in interviews, in talk shows. "Those in need will be helped in a swift an unbureaucratic manner." It's like a text snippet they take from their big box of snippets whenever they think it fits. This was no different after the flood in the Ahr valley and many other places, that devastated this area on the evening of July 14th, 2021, at the height of the pandemic.
Meanwhile, three years after the flood, this is what many streets that went under that summer evening, still look like today. It was the first time for me I visited the place, as in the first time at all, not just after the flood. I fully expected to find scars of the disaster everywhere, but not open wounds that barely even started healing. Especially not so many of them.
Swift and Unbureaucratic
They say this every single time when nature throws in a reminder of who's at the helm on spaceship Earth. In the news, in interviews, in talk shows. "Those in need will be helped in a swift an unbureaucratic manner." It's like a text snippet they take from their big box of snippets whenever they think it fits. This was no different after the flood in the Ahr valley and many other places, that devastated this area on the evening of July 14th, 2021, at the height of the pandemic.
Meanwhile, three years after the flood, this is what many streets that went under that summer evening, still look like today. It was the first time for me I visited the place, as in the first time at all, not just after the flood. I fully expected to find scars of the disaster everywhere, but not open wounds that barely even started healing. Especially not so many of them.