Flood in Lower Silesia in Poland - looks catastrophic

Global warming is as good a name as any, and yes, temperatures are rising long term everywhere. The 7 year trough (due to forcing ships to use less polluting fuel) barely makes a difference.

And the rise in global temperatures is accelerating.


And almost wiped out our species, Before mammals as we know them came, before dinosaurs even, extreme temperatures wiped out whole other species as is beginning to happen now. The difference is that those were mass extinction events that we're looking back on whereas the growing numbers of extinctions due to changing habitat is merely so far just growing rapidly and heading towards one.

From what I read the retention reservoir is holding nicely and should prevent the 1997- like disaster.

@Lenka, I hope so, but this is what I've read yesterday:

wiadomosci.wp.pl/kolejny-hydrolog-alarmuje-ws-wroclawia-mowi-zupelnie-co-innego-niz-prezydent-sutryk-7071783755590560a


There was a leak at night already:

polsatnews.pl/wiadomosc/2024-09-17/raciborz-dolny-przeciekal-w-akcji-bralo-udzial-wojsko/

Apparently it was taken care of with the help of the army, but if there was a leak even though the reservoir isn't full yet... I hope it will hold though and it will become the Hero of Poland :)

I wish Global warming would hurry up and get to the UK. Despite what the met office will tell you about the warmest record months since records began, It has been rather a cold year, with less than 14 days when the temperature got over 24C.

Global warming will make the UK colder, not warmer. The melting ice sheets in Greenland will significantly weaken the Gulf Stream and so cut temperatures in the UK.

I wonder if that what is now called "arctic" is in the future great land for new settlements....everything what is now just "warm" should become uninhabitable!

Russian Siberia should become heavily populated....people will invade this now "empty" land....someone should tell Putin to prepare! :)

The one thing that will cut temperatures is clouds blocking the sun, and later turning to heavy rain. There have been many reports of cloud seeding or geoengineering going on in many countries around the world, and recently they are being more open about it, saying it is a £ billion business. bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30197085

That is apparently about the marine fuel thing. When the dirty type was banned, the difference was so big that it caused an 'adjustment'. Apparently we have 6 more years of that.


The more the better.

Some things (minor recycling of soft plastics for example ) are p1ssing in the wind, however there;s stuff we can do to slow global warming.


Indeed. And if the gulf stream goes, all bets are off.

Can you guys return to the topic?

The Elbe is not so tragic yet, and the sun has come out.

The Racibórz Dolny dry detention basin is the biggest hydrological object in Poland. The dams alone are 22 km long.
It's supposed to protect 2.5 mln people.

Its build was planned since 1883, but it was too expensive. Finally it was the Millennium Flood in 1997 due to which 56 people died in Poland that prompted the decision to build it. For this to be possible the course of the river Oder had to be changed and two villages liquidated and people resettled. The build was financed by the Polish state, the World Bank and the EU.

The first plans were made in 2001, the tendering for the project took place in 2010 and the building started in 2013 and got finished in 2020 (right in time, I guess ;O). The basin wasn't tested by such a big flood yet.

It is nothing new or unique. Weather always been changeable on a global scale. it has little to do with human activity. People can only adjust the best way they can to a climate. There are no ways that weather can be influenced by humans on a global scale.
I'm simply amazed at politicians and elites in so-called democratic free countries that are conspiring and conning populations into some climate change cult to extract money and exert control over the people.


Given that 19th-century historians make him up I wouldn't care. However if you mean some other Slavic gods, they would rather due to their nature **** on Poland.
Until we provide some human sacrifices, not necessarily German or Russian but Serbian sacrifices will do too.

Czechowice-Dziedzice:

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A hope in shi*y times!

I just heard that Putin and Russia opening their heart to all good people who wants to settle in Russia. Poles! You don`t need to die for the Pope or to drawn in flood. Russia is there for you, if you fail to come to Serbia which also loves you.

Prayers fly!

We should make Earth spin faster. This way we all will live longer. 100 instead of 80, for example.

As far as inducing rain, since life is mostly a zero-sum game, if country A get more, country B gets less.

It's just incredible!

In 1997 I was a kid so the flood served a bit more like an interesting adventure. We even went for a free camp. I do remember however how many places never reopened after the flood.

Global warming - flood
Global cooling - flood
Global nothing - flood

Conclusion: "Global" causes floods. Don't say "global" and everything will be OK.

Can you FO to your regular trolling threads.

Global papacy - flood.

Is this your way of thanking me for trying to breath life into this forum?

BTW, now I know you are a woman - no sense of humor and no ability to recognize a genius at work. A typical Karen.

Back to the subject...What I wrote is spot on. The "climate" swindlers explain everything with "climate" and demand we spend zillions to fix it - without any guarantees, of course...


Good for employment. That's what I am told about our involvement in destroying Ukraine.

Bombs...rain...who cares...The outcome is the same...Future employment...

Poles. Listen to this Racow my crazy brothers. Save Polke. Who gives a sh*t for houses, money and ukraine. Where God said `good night` that`s about it. Polke you need. If man, you save them.

Until I read this thread I didn't know anything about the 1997 floods so I started doing a bit of reading.

For anyone interested here is an article giving a day to day account of the flood in Wrocław.

wroclaw.pl/en/the-flood-of-1997-25-years-after-the-disaster-that-hit-wroclaw-and-surrounding-areas

You surprise me, as you have a very good knowledge of Poland.

Poland is very susceptible to flooding and always has been because of the Vistula and Odra rivers, which are both sourced in mountain areas.
And Poland, as you know, is very flat.....

And both today and back in 1997 Poland have been ruled by leftists. Coincidence? I don't thing so.

It isn't now and wasn't then.

If Poland had had proper left wing governments (as it will one day) hopefully there will be better flood defences.

Having said that, after the floods of the 1950s in Poznan, the PRL did well creating flood prevention measures.

@Lenka
Were you living in the area affected by that flood?


"No tak, a nie odpowiadamy tylko za trzęsienia Ziemi, gradobicie i koklusz!" :D 😂

Yes. My town was heavily flooded, we were cut off, no water for a bit...All that. Personally I wasn't at any risk as we I lived in one of the highest point of our town

My mom was out of town (her work required her to go to Gliwice once a month to meet with her boss) and someone came in saying 'you better go back quickly, the flood is getting worse and you may not be able to get back'. Shortly after she got back the bridge she needed to cross got flooded.

She came home and said to my dad- go to the shops and buy water as there might be big problems layer on. He went and came back with 4 small bottles😂. He said there wasn't anything left. My mum found some in other store but that was my parents to a t.

Lenka, if you are fertile female I suggest you go seek shelter in Serbia. Somebody would marry you soon and you would happily live on. One day there would be major war where Serbia would be involved and many would die by the hand of swiss guard but somebody would probably survive. Until then rest of Europe would be flat anyway so living in Serbia you would again live in paradise. Maybe paradise, literally. Thinkers predicted Serbia in the sky. I agree, but I hope, not only on sky.

I don't need a shelter. And I certainly wouldn't choose Serbia after meeting few Serbs on here.

I only want you to smile. Everything will be alright with Poland.

@Lenka

Lenka listen...

Look at this Racow gently so I can feel that you are a woman, a Polka, so I melt like foam in your warm eye.... Look at me, look long with your longing eyes. It's enough for you to look at me and it makes me happy.