After a strong wind in Central Bohemia – ČT24 – Czech Television
The disaster situation for the districts of Benešov, Mělník, Mladá Boleslav, Nymburk, Prague-East and Příbram is canceled on Friday evening. “We are successfully repairing faults, unfortunately during the day (Friday, ed. Note) the wind started to blow strongly again, especially in the Central Bohemian region, and the faults increased again,” said ČEZ Distribuce spokeswoman Soňa Holingerová.
The company works on eleven failures on high-voltage lines, with the participation of a number of employees of fault teams, dispatchers, call center operators and also subcontractors. “The situation has calmed down, we are being able to repair the faults on the high voltage lines. At the same time, we are working on repairing faults at the low voltage level. The precondition for the resumption of delivery is tomorrow (Saturday, ed. Note) in the morning, “the spokeswoman added.
According to her, difficulties can be reported even on Saturdays, especially at low voltage levels, because people can go to check their chats and the like. To report, they can call the toll-free distribution line 800 850 860 or use the website.
The Central Firefighters in the Kladno region had the most exits connected with the very strong wind on Thursday, over two hundred. By Friday morning, more than 16,000 wind events had been recorded, but the number of hits dropped to 1,210 because some reported fallen trees were made by firefighters before firefighters reached them.
The number of departures has not increased dramatically since the morning; in the afternoon, interventions in the Kladno, Nymburk, Mladá Boleslav and Prague-West areas also prevailed. In the morning there were almost seven thousand consumption points in the region without electricity, on Thursday evening there were over seventy thousand.
He caused problems especially in the western half of the country, where he uprooted trees, broke branches, and damaged roofs somewhere. The fallen trees stopped traffic in several places and injured a falling human tree in the Náchod region. But after a strong wind on Thursday, it was calmer on Friday.
Disaster in seven districts
In Havlíčkův Brod, where a calamity was also declared, its power engineers canceled it at noon. By seven o’clock in the morning, there were a hundred households without electricity, and high-voltage faults had already been repaired.
On Thursday, ČEZ declared a calamity in the Pardubice Region in the Chrudim and Pardubice districts, and on Friday at 12:00 it was canceled. The mayor of Chrudim, František Pilný (YES), urged the inhabitants of the town not to go to parks, forests or large trees, because they risk falling.
In the morning, 470 households in the Hradec Králové Region were left without electricity. Due to the wind, the cable car from Pec pod Sněžkou to Sněžka was out of operation on both sections on Thursday, it can be in operation up to 60 kilometers per hour. Due to strong winds, the upper section of the cable car did not start on Friday.
In the Liberec Region, power engineers managed to eliminate most of the high-voltage failures during the night, which damaged fallen trees and broken branches. Thanks to this, they were able to cancel the calamity they announced on Thursday evening for Českolipsko by 9:00 on Friday. Fifteen and a half thousand households were without electricity due to fifteen high-voltage failures. However, energy companies in the region are still working to restore energy supplies, with dozens of households without electricity on Friday morning.
“It was blowing the most on the ridges of the Giant Mountains on Thursday, it was over 150 kilometers per hour on Sněžka,” said Jan Šrámek, a meteorologist at the Czech Television. In the highest positions of the Giant Mountains, he reached the power of a hurricane. A very strong wind occurred mainly in the western half of Bohemia, but it also blew hard in large cities.
For example, in Prague it was over a hundred kilometers per hour, similarly in Ústí nad Labem. The biggest problems and interventions of firefighters were generally in the Pilsen and Central Bohemian regions and in Prague.
Insurance clients have already reported several events
The strong wind that hit the republic on Thursday, caused the insurance company’s clients thousands of damages for tens of millions of crowns. Clients reported six hundred claims to the Kooperativa insurance company. “We estimate their total amount at 24 million crowns,” said company spokesman Milan Káňa. According to him, further damage will increase in the coming days. These are mostly damaged roofs, facades and sheds. “But we already register several dozen vehicles damaged by falling trees and branches,” he added.
Generali České pojišťovny clients reported 460 damage to trees caused by storms, falls and surges during Thursday afternoon. “Currently, we have made over three hundred calls, we are registering near the damage,” said insurance company spokesman Jan Marek. He expects Generali to register about three thousand damages after the storm. “We assume that the next onslaught of damage reporting will be after the weekend, when people will go to check their holiday properties,” he said.
The current estimate of the Allianz insurance company is three to five hundred claims with a total damage of up to ten million crowns. These are damaged cars, houses, greenhouses and, above all, damaged roofs. Clients report insurance claims throughout the country, said Kateřina Pavlíková, a spokeswoman for the insurance company.