Floods

There is a commander's conference in Camp Northern Lights again, and as usual my presence is requested. We left directly after bruch, because Lion needed some maintenance and the guys who dropped me off at CNL wanted to be back in Aybak before dark, if possible. There was not much traffic on the ring road, but we were slowed down by three floods on the road. In the worst spot there was about 50 cms of water on the road, with a strong current. It was no challenge for our all-terrain vehicles, but some local Corollas had trouble passing without getting water in the car. Getting out of the car in Mazar-e Sharif, I once again thanked my luck to be stationed in Aybak, which is about 400 metres higher than MeS - the wheather in Aybak is much more pleasant in the summertime. Later in the evening I heard from the OCCP that more than 70 houses had been destroyed in mud floods in Samangan.


The flooding river had torn down some houses in Sayyad village in the Khulm pass.


At Firuz Nakchir checkpoint the ring road was covered with up to 50 cm's of muddy water.