Romania being flooded

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kansas49er

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"Heavy rains in western Romania have flooded hundreds of villages, forcing 3,700 people to abandon their homes and disrupting rail and road traffic, the Environment Ministry said on Friday. " From Yahoo news.
Hopefully our Squirrel is okay!?
 
You didn't want to be in NW Florida earlier this month. We got over 16 inches of rain in under two days. It rained more than it did during the hurricane.
 
Our Squirrel must be celebrating Easter right now in her city Bucharest, which is in south-east Romania. I hope she's all right.
 
Hello all and thanks for your concern! Wuthering is right... I am in South East Romania and was not affected by the heavy rains. But since it's Orthodox Easter here, I have been busy celebrating! :)

Anyway, part of Romania is badly affected. There are so many people who have lost their homes and belongings! :(
 
Well, I think it is a bit different than Catholic Easter.

We dye eggs - the eggs are boiled in wateer mixed with a special dye of many colours (traditionally, the eggs should be red, but now we dye them also in blue, green, yellow etc...)

The eggs are to obooeo eaten after Christ rises. We have this tradition of "breaking the eggs" one against each other. So, there are 2 people, each holding an egg, and one of them says "Christ has risen!", the other replies "Yes indeed He has risen!" and then the former smashes his egg against the latter's egg at one end. :) One of the eggs breaks and it is eaten by the person who broke it, the other egg continues to be smashed until it breaks too. :)

We also eat lamb, home made "pasca" - a traditional bakery and also "cozonac" (also a bakery, I don't remember the word in English now).

We eat with friends, family, we go visiting etc.
 
At least in the US, people dye eggs as well. But a lot of folks hide them outdoors for children to have Easter Egg hunts. Very few people eat the eggs, anymore. Too many concerns about food safety. Boiled eggs are only supposed to be eaten within two hours of being left unrefridgerated, they say. I wonder about that, though. We never seemed any worse off for eating old eggs when I was little. Oh well.

Or else people have fake plastic eggs, which they fill with candy, treats or money for children to find.

It looks like the customs are pretty close, actually.
 
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