VIDEO: From idyll to trigger in a moment. The village showed a record of the element’s rampage
“As you already know, this year’s Anena pilgrimage was hit by heavy rain and wind right from the start. The camera footage shows how destructive the element can be even in our latitudes,” the village management added to the video, which they posted on Facebook pages.
The recording captures a two-week-old event at the castle in Horoměřice, where the locals wanted to celebrate the Anena Pilgrimage. According to the poster, the office promised refreshments, stall sales, a bouncy castle for children or pony rides. A disaster that only took ninety seconds, but he didn’t promise.
The video begins at 13:35:24 with shots of stallholders preparing their goods. Just three seconds later, you can see that the wind is picking up and at 13:35:30 it is already raining.
What followed after that, but no one expected. The wind began to shift and drop the first things. He had such strength that he lifted a large tent and flipped it onto the roof a few meters away.
In the foreground of the video, the mask seller’s efforts to save her goods are captured. But just as he pulls the tarpaulin from the cart to cover the tables, the wind picks up so much that the stall blows them across the castle courtyard.
Stallholders are out of luck, people want to start a collection
With the experience of the phenomenon of that day, which the experts call a downburst (or also a drop of cold air, editor’s note), other residents of the village also shared in the comments. However, as the management informed them, the stall holders will probably not get anything for the lost profit and the destroyed goods.
“Our insurance company did not want to cover damages to third parties if she is fit to live. On the other hand, the strong flow is from the drain of the farmhouse. We’ll find out how it’s progressing and let you know,” promises a person from the land surveyor’s office.
He is thus responding to the question of one of the locals, whether it will be possible to donate to the sellers for broken goods, or whether a collection is being set up.
The mayor of Horoměřice, Jan Herčík, admitted to iDNES.cz that they tried to compensate the seller of the stall through their insurance, but it was not possible. “General insurance companies pay for damaged roofs, that’s fine. But the stallholders have to deal with their insurance individually,” he explained.
“We wanted to take it upon ourselves to help them, but that’s how insurance policies are set up. They have to insure themselves individually, then it’s fine. We have everything documented for them,” he said. According to him, the lesson for all stall holders is that they must have their own individual insurance, even if someone organizes the pilgrimage.