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Polish town assesses damage after historic flooding
Bangkok Post Group
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9/22/2024
As the water receded in Stronie Slaskie, one of the areas worst hit by massive floods in southwest Poland, residents and volunteers began clearing up and assessing the damage. - REUTER
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After massive flooding swept through the town of Stroni ÅšlÄ…skiej, Poland, leaving behind
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mountains of debris, residents are now faced with a daunting cleanup effort.
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Sixty-seven-year-old Mirosław Wegersen said he's been running this ice cream shop for
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30 years, but is not insured.
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He points to a spot high up on the wall where he says the water reached.
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He says there used to be refrigerators in this room and that, quote, everything was
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flying in the air.
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Parts of the town of 5,000 people were swamped when a dam burst last weekend during Central
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Europe's worst floods in more than two decades.
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The town, located in southwest Poland, was one of the hardest hit areas.
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The historic flooding swept away homes and cars, causing billions of dollars in damages
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and killing at least 24 people.
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Wegersen says one of his neighbors is among the dead.
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The first building on the street, the one that is completely destroyed, there was a
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couple.
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The wife survived.
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Unfortunately, the husband was taken away by the water.
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They found his body downstream.
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And in the morning, the wife swam away to a garage there on some log board.
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Wegersen and others said they will work to make their homes livable again before the
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onset of winter, which one resident said he hoped would come as late as possible.
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