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More flood news
Apr. 25th, 2006 11:34 pmMan, but I'm being talkative...
In any case, the flood is far from being over. The dams on the Triple-Körös - there are three rivers with the same name: the Black Körös, the White Körös and the Running Körös - are breaking on several places. They say the waters should go back one meter before it'll be safe again, and it's a slow process. Especially that weather forecast says it'll rain in the weekend again. Drat.
The three most threatened settlements have been evacuated; one of them completely, the two others partially. So far, two thousand five hundred people have been brought to safe temporary quarters in other towns, mostly to sport halls and such places. The soldiers work on the dams twelve hours in a piece, sandsacks are transported there by helicopters or by those vehicles that can go on land and in water as well, I don't know what they are called in English.
Firefighters from Budapest have volunteered and went down to the south-east to help evacuate people and work on the dams. It does have a strange irony, doesn't it: firefighters fight the water, the same element that normally would be their strongest ally. They do have those really fast boots, too, which is a good thing, because some dams are so unstable they can only be approached from the water.
Some links of interest:
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/apr2006/2006-04-21-02.asp
http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,18932761%255E1702,00.html
http://www.zki.caf.dlr.de/applications/2006/hungary/hungary_flood_2006_en.html
Pictures of the Danube in Budapest:
http://thehungaryyears.blogspot.com/2006/04/rising-tides.html
These aren't very recent, as the flood in Budapest is more or less over, but the pictures are really good.
In any case, the flood is far from being over. The dams on the Triple-Körös - there are three rivers with the same name: the Black Körös, the White Körös and the Running Körös - are breaking on several places. They say the waters should go back one meter before it'll be safe again, and it's a slow process. Especially that weather forecast says it'll rain in the weekend again. Drat.
The three most threatened settlements have been evacuated; one of them completely, the two others partially. So far, two thousand five hundred people have been brought to safe temporary quarters in other towns, mostly to sport halls and such places. The soldiers work on the dams twelve hours in a piece, sandsacks are transported there by helicopters or by those vehicles that can go on land and in water as well, I don't know what they are called in English.
Firefighters from Budapest have volunteered and went down to the south-east to help evacuate people and work on the dams. It does have a strange irony, doesn't it: firefighters fight the water, the same element that normally would be their strongest ally. They do have those really fast boots, too, which is a good thing, because some dams are so unstable they can only be approached from the water.
Some links of interest:
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/apr2006/2006-04-21-02.asp
http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,18932761%255E1702,00.html
http://www.zki.caf.dlr.de/applications/2006/hungary/hungary_flood_2006_en.html
Pictures of the Danube in Budapest:
http://thehungaryyears.blogspot.com/2006/04/rising-tides.html
These aren't very recent, as the flood in Budapest is more or less over, but the pictures are really good.
