Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Tuesday flood update

I'm back at school today - not the ideal setting, in my opinion, but that's where I am. The sun was out for a moment but now the clouds are back and it's going gray again. It poured last night... I also watched the Red Wedding episode of Game of Thrones last night so (if you're a fan) you can understand that last night was a bit much.

Here are the photos from today: IDNES PHOTO GALLERY

Idnes is a Czech news outlet so the text you will see at the bottom of the photos is in Czech. If you're not using Google Chrome, which should allow you to automatically perform the translations,  then you can copy and past the text in to a translator if you want to know what you're looking at. The pictures aren't just from Prague, although it seems the majority of them are, but from all over CZ.

In other news - more people have died. The sewage system has become overwhelmed in Prague and sewage is now being pumped directly in to the Vlatva. The city recommends that if you touch the flood water that you go home and disinfect yourself. Outside of Prague the water systems have been compromised and tap water is no longer safe. Inside of Prague the water pressure is not consistent and some districts are sporadically without any water at all. A lot of the metro stations are closed  - before this meant that the metro just didn't' stop there but it ran through the station but now they've just shuttered parts of the system entirely.

And finally - something you'll not often see...


(photographer unknown)

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