"The worst is still ahead": the metro closes in Prague, the first victim of the flood was recorded

The capital of the Czech Republic Prague begins to flood the potentially catastrophic flood. Under the motto, "The worst is ahead" (which the population did not inform the prime minister about), rescuers erect dams on the shore of the Vltava, the metro closes due to the threat of flooding of the stations. The authorities assure that now it is better to strike the elements better than in 2002. Meteorologists note that the water in the Vltava arrives much faster than expected. The first victims of the current flood are a woman who drowned in one of the suburbs of the capital, and the man who died in the hospital after his own house was falling on him, washed off with water.

In Prague, the third, highest level of danger has been declared. There, due to the threat of flooding, 8 metro stations are closed. This was announced by a representative of the crisis headquarters. According to him, the work of the yellow branch of the Prague subway is practically blocked.

The energy sections of the Czech capital switched to emergency operation and reduced electricity supply to a number of Prague areas that threaten flooding. According to a representative of the capital's magistrate (city hall), this is done in order to "minimize the threat of possible defeat of people with an electric current."

79 patients from the Prague Hospital "Frantishka" were evacuated. Water flooded the construction buildings there, the building of the institution was not injured.

In the central regions of Prague, along the banks of the Vltava, firefighters installed hundreds of meters of special barriers in the morning, which should protect the city center from flood. They were purchased after the destructive flood of 2002, which became the most serious in 500 years, claimed 19 lives and caused multibillion -dollar damage to the city.

The evacuation of animals from the Prague Zoo has begun. They are transferred to that part of the menagerie, which is located on a high rock mass, where the flood will not harm them. It is reported that first of all, small predators and exotic birds are translated there.

The country's Prime Minister Peter did not take a special appeal: "I'm afraid that the worst is still ahead. All the structures involved work at full power, one on one with the elements will not remain." He informed that 200 military personnel of the Czech army have already been involved in the fight against the elements.

He didn’t even say that the government was allocating 300 million CRCs (about $ 15 million) to fight the elements. The Government House is located on the Vltava embankment.

Currently, the pressure of water in the Vltava River in the area of ​​the Czech capital is 2 thousand cubic meters per second, at night it should increase to 3 thousand cubic meters per second. This forecast was made by scientists of the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute. In 2002, the pressure of water in the VLTAV was 4 thousand 700 cubic meters per second.

The rain goes almost without stopping Sunday in the morning and will stop, according to meteorologists, only on Monday morning, ITAR-TASS notes.

In the mountainous areas in the north of the Czech Republic, about 70 mm of precipitation fell over the past day. In this part of the country, rescuers and firefighters began to evacuate people from settlements that are threatened by flooding. In the city of Ust-Sna Labem, the archives of the local court were transported to a safe place.

The river exit from the banks interrupted the railway message between the Czech Republic and Moravia. Trains are stopped near the city of Colin. When the movement is restored, it is not reported.

On Monday, May 3, many schools and kindergartens in areas that threaten flooding will be closed, a representative of the Prague magistrate said. The metro will also not work in the central part of the city.

The first sacrifices

The floods in the Czech Republic led to the death of women on Sunday, the local police said. She parted with life in a small village 30 kilometers south of Prague.

The hospital died in the hospital who suffered during the collapse of his own house, washed off with water in the town of Trzhebenitsa near Prague. Earlier in the ruins of the same building, a woman died. It is possible that it was a married couple.

Three more rescuers are considered missing.