{"id":57198,"date":"2024-09-23T23:08:27","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T21:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=57198"},"modified":"2024-10-05T22:26:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T20:26:35","slug":"the-terrible-effects-of-the-destruction-of-the-century-old-stronie-slaskie-dam-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/09\/23\/the-terrible-effects-of-the-destruction-of-the-century-old-stronie-slaskie-dam-poland\/","title":{"rendered":"The terrible effects of the destruction of the century-old Stronie \u015al\u0105skie dam, Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Stronie \u015al\u0105skie and L\u0105dek Zdr\u00f3j, two towns in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, will not forget 15 September 2024.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/09\/21\/polish-army-a-source-of-pride-for-poland-in-the-midst-of-floods\/\">Polish Army, a source of pride for Poland in the midst of floods<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/06\/24\/the-chapel-of-saint-kinga-of-wieliczka-a-spectacular-underground-church-in-poland\/\">The Chapel of Saint Kinga of Wieliczka: a spectacular underground church in Poland<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Three days earlier, <strong>on September 12, heavy rain began to fall in southern Poland, caused by storm Boris<\/strong>. On that day, the first floods began, affecting mainly the Silesian, Lower Silesian and Opole voivodeships. <strong>On September 15, disaster struck: the earth embankment next to the Stronie \u015al\u0105skie dam in Lower Silesia broke.<\/strong> You can see here <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jachcy\/status\/1836270848723841265\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">three photos by Irek Daniusiar<\/a> showing the state of the dam:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54016848946_b96efd28f8_h.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54016848946_3074c238ca_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54017176334_f24a1e48a5_b.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54017176334_f24a1e48a5_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54015943062_6e9e032c21_k.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54015943062_ee16173eac_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The dam was 16 metres high and was built between 1906 and 1908,<\/strong> when the town was part of Germany, to contain the frequent flooding caused by the Morawka River, a tributary of the Bia\u0142a L\u0105decka. <strong>In recent years, it was a nearly dry reservoir, until Storm Boris came.<\/strong> You can watch a video of the broken dam here, published that same day by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/magaciak\/status\/1835325320733331670\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ma\u0142gorzata Waszkiewicz<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"665\">\n<p lang=\"pl\" dir=\"ltr\">Przerwana tama. <br \/>Stronie \u015al\u0105skie odci\u0119te od \u015bwiata. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Radio_TOK_FM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Radio_TOK_FM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iknZoIXWSp\">pic.twitter.com\/iknZoIXWSp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ma\u0142gorzata Waszkiewicz (@magaciak) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/magaciak\/status\/1835325320733331670?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After the dam broke, <strong>the Morawka River destroyed everything in its path in Stronie \u015al\u0105skie and the neighbouring town of L\u0105dek Zdr\u00f3j<\/strong>, as we can see in this video posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@MaggieMuuu\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MaggieMu<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf1 Pow\u00f3d\u017a: Stronie \u015al\u0105skie miasto zosta\u0142o ca\u0142kowicie zniszczone straty s\u0105 ogromne - 16.09.2024\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i68W4CFKkt0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The police station in Stronie \u015al\u0105skie was completely washed away by the water,<\/strong> which also swept away a fire truck and destroyed or damaged many buildings. <strong>The two towns were left without electricity and practically isolated,<\/strong> until the rescue services arrived with helicopters. On Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@bratpogard9106\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brat Pogard<\/a> posted <strong>a video showing the current state of Stronie \u015al\u0105skie and L\u0105dek Zdr\u00f3j:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WA\u0141\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KrlHuebNY1o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stronie \u015al\u0105skie and L\u0105dek Zdr\u00f3j have suffered losses of millions<\/strong> and will take years to recover from this severe blow, which is not the first, as both towns already suffered severe flooding in 1997. As a European citizen, I hope that the European Union will do its utmost to help with the reconstruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Stronie \u015al\u0105skie and L\u0105dek Zdr\u00f3j, two towns in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, will not forget 15 September 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19535,16881],"tags":[22768,22771,22772,10370,22767],"class_list":["post-57198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exploring-portada-eng","category-meteorology","tag-ladek-zdroj","tag-lower-silesia","tag-morawka-river","tag-poland","tag-stronie-slaskie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}