A little internationally- Poland in a fight against flood.

Summer holidays are usually treated as the main period for people to go away for a well-deserved break. They save up money all year to enjoy their sweet rest somewhere exotic. Poland is well known for nice, sunny and hot summers. The hottest months- July and August when the temperature gets up to 40 degrees satisfy many tourists that come from all over the world. Unfortunately, the summer in Poland has been cancelled this year.

Water everywhere. 15 dead. Impassable streets, in fact there are no street. Just rapid streams. It looks like the flood from 1997 came back with stronger forces. Heavy rain has caused damage estimated at more than 266 mln zł, forcing the evacuation of thousands and thousands of people from their homes along the Vistula River, which flows from the southern Tatra Mountains into the Baltic. Emergency services do their best to help Poland not to get covered by flood completely. They have been blowing up the river embankment below the hole to help the water return to the river bed. Even strong and huge flood barriers don’t help anymore in many parts of Poland as they are in a very poor condition now after so many days of flood.

What’s happening to Poland? It seems like someone put a curse on it. It’s incredibly sad watching my own country being in such tragedies. Water gets higher day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute. No one knows when it will stop raining, or when everything will go back to normal- it will take a long time.

Element doesn’t always strike with the force. Sometimes it sneaks into our villages and cities slowly destroying property and human life. This year it just fell from the sky. You can’t predict when big waters will come, you can’t stop them either. Seeing the images of devastation and the enormity of human despair, we can ask ourselves: Can such disasters not be avoided or at least can their imapact not be minimized?









Pictures taken from:
http://wiadomosci.wp.pl/gid,12306641,title,Polska-pod-woda---zdjecia,galeria.html
and
http://galerie.money.pl/powodz;zalane;tereny;w;zachodniopomorskim,galeria,3786,9.html