12 MONTHS AFTER THE FLOODS
In this area, the floodwaters rose above the height of my head.
Can you imagine the difference and the volume?
The inflows are estimated by current analyses
to have exceeded the 500-year return period in most of these areas,
so the damage is now counted in billions instead of millions.
In Črna na Koroškem, especially the road infrastructure was damaged.
We found out that the damage was over 200 million.
We couldn't cross there or there, the bridges were flooded.
This road turned into a torrent,
but the cows somehow survived, that was the biggest relief.
We had to get rid of 12,000 m3 of shit, excuse my language.
We cleared it up, but it flowed in again.
At seven o'clock the water on the road was two metres high,
and in our house it reached a metre.
We only had the clothes on our backs, our phones and wallets.
That's all that was left.
The landslide buried my father's, my uncle's
and two of our neighbour’s houses.
We didn't have electricity or internet, a kitchen,
we didn't have anything.
Let me start by thanking all those who are going to be
and are currently helping.
I appeal to everyone to apply through the app.
For example, today from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m.,
they got 90 requests for deployment of different groups.
There are trucks in these areas, there's water and mud,
there are landslides, there's everything.
There are about 30,000 individuals and groups of people
who want to help. Some of them came yesterday,
some of them will come today, and some of them tomorrow.
Our teams immediately set about reconstructing
and inspecting the network as soon as the floodwaters receded.
They immediately placed the prefabricated bridges in Stahovica,
Beričevo, Otiški Vrh, and this one behind me in Domžale.
They continued with the reconstruction
of the damaged transport infrastructure,
including the road to Luče,
which was washed away by the floodwaters,
thus ensuring the road's emergency transportability
before the start of the school year.
For this house, we have received a 20% advance payment,
the Ministry of Agriculture has contributed
almost 40% of the damage.
The Water Directorate and the relevant ministries
have responded very responsibly.
The intervention part of the measures has mainly been carried out.
Some have already helped themselves and are looking
for possibilities for the state to participate in this reconstruction.
Some of them don't know how to approach the reconstruction.
Many of them are directly threatened by water
or water has eroded part of their land.
Some of them are threatened by landslides.
We have had hundreds of individual direct talks
with people on the ground this year.
We can't actually count them.
Our colleagues make dozens of calls a day,
we answer many emails.
We try to reply practically the same day.
Thank God at least the valuations were done very fairly,
so we are satisfied and at least we have a basis to afford a new house.
We need documents for the land and the house as soon as possible.
Se we can start working.
We expect we'll have to move
in the interests of the wider community,
because then this will become a spill area
and thus protect the larger settlements downstream.
For the future they said they will give me a compensation,
which I am more than happy with.
I'll also get help, so I'm very grateful.
I consider the intervention works carried out in the past year
very successful.
That's how future reconstruction work will go on.
To put in place everything that is needed
to make the waterways more resilient to climate change.
We all want the reconstruction to be done as quickly as possible
with as little paperwork as possible,
so that people can say they feel safe.
We will recover. There's a lot of work ahead of us,
but things are going in the right direction.
But the state shouldn't fall asleep.
This should be the blueprint for the rescue
in the event of catastrophes which will surely keep happening.