An arm of the Rhine at Nackenheim.

Standed.

Interestingly, the word “stranded” means pretty much the same as “beached”

Old English & Germanic Roots: Recorded before the year 1000, the Old English noun strand and Old Frisian strônd meant “sea-shore” or “margin of a stream”. It shares roots with Old Norse (strönd) and modern German (Strand)

There’s your trivia for the day.

And no, it hasn’t rained for weeks and the temperatures are due to hit 40°C today

Or 100F in old money…

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