Glad you Folks are OK. I hope and wish the best for you, your countrypeople, and the other people of central Europe! Rob:
On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Michael Polak wrote: > Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 14:21:47 +0000 > From: Michael Polak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: arachne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: More about floods ... > > >any of you with friends/correspondents in the area, and those who know > >Michael P and his co-workers, can cross your fingers & hope ... cuz it > >sounds like they need all the help they can get to keep from >*literally* > >going down the drain in some areas over there. :< > > Some people really need help here, but not us. Arachne Labs are on the > hill, and Inway server room where home.arachne.cz is located too. > > And it seems that local firemen, army and police mastered the situation. > Center of Prague was proteced from floods thanks to portable > flood-bariers, installed just recently (last year). They were up to 2 > meters high, and water just started to pour over them before it stoped. > Charles Bridge survived the floods too (it didn't survied other floods > in previous centuries, so it was anyway already rebuilt many times since > middle-ages) > > After all, we are not Bangladesh ;-) > > But it is true, that the damage is huge, but loss of lives is (so far) > surprisingly low, compared to other floods of such size, even in our > country in 1997. Material damage includes cca 50% of Prague underground > lines - although they were ready for floods, no one expected such huge > floods. > > In other parts of country appeared temporary lakes up to 30 km accross. > There was floowing much more than 5000 m^3/second (5 million litres > every second), and this is comparable to rivers like Missisipi, I guess > ;-) (Donau normaly has about 1-2000 thousands, IMHO, and it is the > largest European river). In Vltava, there are normaly 150 m^3/second. I > am really surprised, that all the bridges in Prague seem to survive. > Situation was much worse in countryside, however. > >
