From the Deník archive: August 19, 2002, people were only allowed to go to Karlín for a while
How many houses await destruction? This was the main headline on August 19, 2002 in Večerník Praha, which is the successor of Pražský deník. Look at what was written about the floods that day.
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Saving Gaston the sea lion.
| Photo: courtesy of the Prague Zoo
In addition to the damaged statics, in addition to Večerník, he also engaged in attempts to loot abandoned houses. “Marauding hyenas are on the rise in the metropolis,” read the headline of the article.
And not only Večerník Praha followed the journey of Gaston the sea lion from the Prague Zoo. “He lost the ability to take care of himself,” the diary quoted zoo director Petr Fejko as saying that the sea lion would have died in the salt water of the sea.
The sea lion Gaston lost his life in floods 20 years ago. His family lives on
The first wave of flooding
August 9
The rains in the south of Bohemia have stopped and the water has receded. The Vltava reached a flow rate of 1500 m³/s (3 SPA) and began to decline.
10th of August
The first wave of flooding has ended and a major clean-up and damage assessment has begun, but they warned of more sustained rainfall. The Vltava in Prague has dropped to the second level of flood activity.
August 11th
In the afternoon, it began to rain heavily in the south of Bohemia, the water managers released the dams, but promised that the Vltava in Prague would not reach the first wave of flooding.
The second wave of flooding
Aug. 12
the second wave is expected to be much stronger than the first.
August 13
Electricity supply was interrupted in the historic center of Prague. The Velká Chuchle racecourse was completely flooded.
August 14th
The Vltava in Prague reached a flow rate of 5,160 m3/s at 12 o’clock in Velká Chuchla at a water level of 782 cm, Karlín and the Prague metro were flooded.
The newspaper recalls the devastating floods that hit the Czechia twenty years ago. How did the disaster affect the lives of the people of Central Bohemia and Prague? Read HERE.