Floods Hit South

28th July 2008

Flooded streets, basements and camp sites were the picture of the summer season in Poland’s southern mountain regions at the end of last week.

Flooded streets, basements and camp sites were the picture of the summer season in Poland’s southern mountain regions at the end of last week, as holidaymakers and locals counted the cost of a week of heavy rain and thunder storms.
Several rivers in the Małopolska region around Kraków overflowed, but the worst damage centred around the mountain capital Zakopane, where a local state of emergency was declared by firemen battling the waters.
“It’s simply getting too high, there’s no where for the water to go,” a fireman told reporters stan ...