Torrential rains from Storm Boris triggered catastrophic flooding in southwestern Poland, causing widespread damage and devastation. While the Oder River drew attention, it was smaller mountain rivers that inflicted the most destruction, particularly after a dam burst in Stronie Slaskie released millions of cubic feet of water.
A man walks past a destroyed residential building following the floods in Ladek-Zdroj, southern Poland , on Sept. 18. Throughout the week of Sept. 15-21, all eyes were fixed on the Oder River in western Poland -- one of two biggest rivers in the country, and efforts were underway to save major cities through which the river flows.
Stornie Slaskie, Ladek Zdrój and surrounding villages were flooded by 53 million cubic feet of water. Since there had been no electricity in many localities for two days, information did not reach them. People expected the river to overflow but the bursting of the dam was unimaginable. On Sept. 21 she pushed a wheelbarrow full of damaged, wet equipment -- all that remained from the inside of her house. She recounted that once everything quieted down and the water subsided, she and her husband were afraid to go back down, because they were sure that their house had also been carried away by the current. But the house survived"by some miracle," she said.
The water that destroyed the houses in Radochów carried parts of them all the way to Oldrzychowice. One resident found his concrete mixer 1.2 miles from his home. Help for the affected is needed now and will be for a long time. In Radochów alone, which has a population of about 600 people, as many as 10 houses must be demolished. More than 80% of residents have been affected.
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