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Floodwaters damage houses in Chrastava village
Floodwaters damage houses in Chrastava village
Polish officials announced on Sunday that at least three people have been killed after rivers overflew and a dam burst, submerging towns in southwestern Poland.
"We had no warning. In less than an hour our town was totally inundated up to the first floor, many houses collapsed and we were cut off from the world," mayor of Poland's southwestern city of Bogatynia, Andrzej Grzmielewicz told TVN24news channel.
"We need amphibious vehicles and helicopters to help evacuate at least 2,000 flood victims," he added, calling on people to help the victims with blankets and food.
Torrential rain has also drowned four Czech nationals in a region bordering Poland and Germany on Saturday.
At least 1,000 people were forced to evacuate their houses and people of Chrastava and Frydlant were rescued by military helicopters from the roofs of their homes.
The bodies of three people drowned in a cellar have been found in Neukirchen near Chemnitz, southeastern Germany.
In Germany, some 1,400 people were evacuated from the town of Goerlitz, on the border with Poland.
Poland was hit by major spring and summer flooding which claimed some two dozen lives and caused widespread property damage.
Even though we were just 13, or 14 years old in 1970, we tried to tell the 'old people' that they wre ruining our world. Because we were 'just kids', no one paid attention. Viet-Nam was all that the media was concerened with, and rightly so, but the destruction of our planet was well under way. I hate to look at history and say 'we told you so'. I would rather look to the past as a chance to learn from our mistakes, correct them, then move along with life, but this subject was not even discussed by the 'powers That Be' untill Mother Nature slapped the s**t out of us. The problem is that we still have not learned a damn thing. We are still doing the same ole - same ole. Yea, there is plenty of 'lip service', but the fact is that we don't need fossil fuels now any more than we did then. The 'upper 10%' would be devestated and the poverty stricken would rise above the current situation that they are in, if only the truth were known.
Cume on, Dr. Greer, you know the truth, and for a while had people believing that you were on a quest to get the truth out. Now it seems that you want to get into the 'top 10%' before you share the truth.
Those that know the answers, PLEASE come clean. We, the world, can't wait much longet.