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12 MONTHS AFTER THE FLOODS

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In this area, the floodwaters
rose above the height of my head.

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Can you imagine
the difference and the volume?

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The inflows are estimated
by current analyses

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to have exceeded the 500-year
return period in most of these areas,

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so the damage is now counted
in billions instead of millions.

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In Črna na Koroškem, especially
the road infrastructure was damaged.

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We found out that the damage
was over 200 million.

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We couldn't cross there or there,
the bridges were flooded.

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This road turned
into a torrent,

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but the cows somehow survived,
that was the biggest relief.

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We had to get rid of 12,000 m3
of shit, excuse my language.

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We cleared it up,
but it flowed in again.

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At seven o'clock the water
on the road was two metres high,

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and in our house
it reached a metre.

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We only had the clothes on our
backs, our phones and wallets.

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That's all that was left.

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The landslide buried
my father's, my uncle's

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and two
of our neighbour’s houses.

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We didn't have electricity
or internet, a kitchen,

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we didn't have anything.

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Let me start by thanking
all those who are going to be

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and are currently helping.

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I appeal to everyone
to apply through the app.

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For example,
today from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m.,

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they got 90 requests
for deployment of different groups.

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There are trucks in these areas,
there's water and mud,

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there are landslides,
there's everything.

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There are about 30,000
individuals and groups of people

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who want to help.
Some of them came yesterday,

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some of them will come today,
and some of them tomorrow.

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Our teams immediately
set about reconstructing

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and inspecting the network
as soon as the floodwaters receded.

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They immediately placed the
prefabricated bridges in Stahovica,

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Beričevo, Otiški Vrh,
and this one behind me in Domžale.

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They continued
with the reconstruction

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of the damaged
transport infrastructure,

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including the road to Luče,

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which was washed away
by the floodwaters,

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thus ensuring the road's
emergency transportability

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before the start
of the school year.

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For this house, we have received
a 20% advance payment,

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the Ministry of Agriculture
has contributed

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almost 40% of the damage.

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The Water Directorate
and the relevant ministries

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have responded
very responsibly.

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The intervention part of the measures
has mainly been carried out.

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Some have already
helped themselves and are looking

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for possibilities for the state to
participate in this reconstruction.

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Some of them don't know how
to approach the reconstruction.

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Many of them
are directly threatened by water

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or water has eroded
part of their land.

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Some of them
are threatened by landslides.

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We have had hundreds
of individual direct talks

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with people
on the ground this year.

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We can't actually count them.

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Our colleagues
make dozens of calls a day,

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we answer many emails.

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We try to reply
practically the same day.

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Thank God at least the valuations
were done very fairly,

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so we are satisfied and at least we
have a basis to afford a new house.

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We need documents for the land
and the house as soon as possible.

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Se we can start working.

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We expect we'll have to move

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in the interests
of the wider community,

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because then this
will become a spill area

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and thus protect the larger
settlements downstream.

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For the future they said they
will give me a compensation,

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which I am
more than happy with.

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I'll also get help,
so I'm very grateful.

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I consider the intervention works
carried out in the past year

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very successful.

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That's how future
reconstruction work will go on.

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To put in place
everything that is needed

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to make the waterways
more resilient to climate change.

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We all want the reconstruction
to be done as quickly as possible

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with as little paperwork
as possible,

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so that people
can say they feel safe.

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We will recover.
There's a lot of work ahead of us,

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but things are going
in the right direction.

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But the state
shouldn't fall asleep.

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This should be
the blueprint for the rescue

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in the event of catastrophes
which will surely keep happening.