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08.06.2013 23:17

Spring...

...arrived here a few weeks ago, the snow is melting and causing quite some trouble. River Laxá is floating over a lot of meadows, the farmers can't start cleaning up after the winter, fences are under water, some of them so damadged that they have to be rebuilt completely. Nobody knows when it will be possible to release the sheep to the highlands as there's still quite a lot of snow up there.
The warm weather and rain caused rather big mudflows in our area, most of them near the farm Ystafell, where the local car museum is. As far as people remember, there haven't been any mudflows in this area. The biggest one took the road away, so when you want to go to Akureyri, you have to take the route passing Góðafoss. Here you can see air images from the mudflows.
Of course we were interested to see, how Góðafoss looks with all this meltwater and it was a very impressing view. Where usually tourists take a walk to go as close as possible to the edge, incredible amounts of water were rushing down. In the news they were talking about tops 679 m³/second, usually it's about 50 m³/second...

I attach some pics for you.