Ostrobotnia is Sinking

Like it does every spring!

Finland is pretty flat all around, but Ostrobotnia reagion is on a whole different level, I mean, it's on one level, one low level, hardly above the sea level. So every spring when the snow starts melting, all the rivers overflow. This year it's especially bad because we had so much snow. It's a tradition for us to go see the floods with the family, and we call this flood drive, it's a sister to the nature drive we also do, just driving around the almost empty Finland.

It's pretty funny that a lot of people gather around, everyone snapping pictures, both locals and people from elsewhere. I think the people in Ostrobotnia are pretty well equipped to handle the floods, because they are no surprise.

The river Kyröjoki turns into a giant slushie machine, churning huge pieces of ice and pushing them onto the fields and roads. The sound is pretty insane, you should really hear it in person. We came at a perfect time when the ice that had gathered around in places, blocking the water from running, suddenly started moving with a huge force. It felt pretty insane to be standing on a bridge when a massive ice block hit it and broke into smaller pieces like it was nothing. Sometimes they blow up the ice dams if they don't start moving on their own, but I've never been lucky enough to witness that.

This all should be fields, roads and dry farmland, but instead are now taken over by the flood.