It gets this bad only once every 300 years … so out come the surfers!
Last week, rain poured into the already-drenched Emmental region of Switzerland. The water flowed over the saturated ground into the Emme River, which ruptured in torrential floods.
You can get a sense of the force at work in this video, which shows a tiny stream suddenly erupting in waters so strong that they easily push huge rocks downstream.
Of course, the appropriate reaction* to an event like this is to go surfing, which is precisely what these two men did in the raging waters.
Thanks to Jack Hydrazine for these videos
*I think they’re nuts!
