Czech town reels from record floods

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The northeastern Czech town of Krnov is reeling from a record flood that swept by as the Opava and Opavice rivers rose to record levels on September 15. Flooding sparked by Storm Boris has burst dams, knocked out power and killed several people across central Europe.

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00:00I don't know, I don't have a word for it.

00:29Well, it's a tragedy.

00:33They said in the initial reports that 80% of Krnov is under water,

00:38so it's possible to deduce what it looked like.

00:42We were imprisoned at home, so we didn't have a chance to see anything,

00:47except for our own current on the street.

00:59We have a solution, right?

01:01Now, well, it's terrible.

01:03I was just around the garden, it's a disaster.

01:06There are sidewalks there, all of them are broken,

01:09everything is overturned here again,

01:11everything around the shop is broken,

01:13as you have seen, we have a shop in front of us,

01:16everything has been demolished, it's terrible.

01:19It will take a long time to put it all back together again.

01:23And so it was nicely done, those sidewalks.

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