2002 Floods - Svihov Town Hall
Posted by: haggaeus
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A simple plaque next to the town hall entrance.
Waymark Code: WM5CQE
Location: Plzeňský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 12/19/2008
Views: 160
A remembrance of summer 2002: there were record floods all over Central Europe and the town of Svihov wasn't spared either: the water throughput of Uhlava river went up 60 times from the year average. See the related webpage link for photos.
Natural or man made event?: Natural
What type of marker?: wall plaque
When did this occur?: Aug 13th, 2002
Website related to the event..: [Web Link]
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Visit Instructions:
A picture showing the level along with any markers telling of what had occurred can be used. Better yet would be a picture of you or someone standing next to the high level mark, that would show if you would have been just wading or completely submersed.