In Poland, the devastating floods still have the country under control. Thousands of people in southwestern Poland are fighting the floods with united forces – because the next catastrophe is already lurking there.
In the small town of Nysa, about 90 kilometers south of Breslau (Wroclaw), the waters of the Glatzer Neisse threaten to break a dam protecting the city center. During the night, many residents of the town helped the army and fire brigade to reinforce the affected area in the dam with sandbags.
With sandbags against the current
“There were about 2,000 people on the dike: women, men, children and seniors,” Mayor Kordian Kolbiarz told radio station Rmf.fm. They formed a human chain to transport the sandbags. The crisis team met again with Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Breslau.
An entire city fights against floods:
The government in Warsaw has declared a state of emergency for the flooded areas, making it easier for authorities to enforce instructions.
Wroclaw is threatened with complete flooding
Tusk said that there are currently very contradictory forecasts from meteorologists about when the flood waters could reach the city of Wroclaw. Initially, it was said that the flood wave in the Oder would reach the city on Wednesday. Now we are talking about Friday. This still needs to be analyzed in detail, Tusk demanded. During the flood of the Oder in 1997, a third of Wroclaw was under water.
Persistent rainfall led to flooding in southwestern Poland, on the border with the Czech Republic. In the small town of Klodzko in Lower Silesia, entire streets were flooded and one person died there too. The village of Glucholazy in the Opole region was devastated by flooding. There have been four confirmed fatalities so far.
Tusk has announced that aid worth one billion zlotys (about 240 million euros) will be provided to victims of the floods in the south-west of the country. There will also be aid for the reconstruction of destroyed houses, he said on Monday at the crisis team meeting in Breslau (Wroclaw). According to Tusk, those affected can now submit applications to local authorities.
Source: Krone
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