No complaints

As much as we complain about the perpetually wet and gray weather these days, as it turns out we're comparatively lucky. There has evidently been quite severe flooding throughout much of Switzerland over the past week or so, to the point that some of our favorite places are now inaccessible. I've not been down to see the normally placid Rhine yet, but supposedly it's really churning since much of the flood water ultimately ends up in the Rhine. And yet, since we don't have any Swiss TV channels, we didn't know this was happening until CNN ran a story about it this morning--it's kind of odd to find out what's happening in your own backyard on an international station.