There is a peculiar calm in Koskinas. A year after the deadly storm which destroyed around 70 houses in the Thessalian village, residents are slowly and with great difficulty trying to return and rebuild their lives from scratch.
NATURAL DISASTER
“If we ever experience something similar, God help us. We are completely defenseless,” a local government official in the municipality of Palamas in Karditsa, a regional unit in central Greece, tells Kathimerini when asked about the necessary anti-flood works in the area. “Up until now, nothing has started,” he adds.
A man died in Lepeno, Agrinio, in Aetolia-Acarnania, as Storm Cassandra caused extensive damage across Western Greece.
Plans are under way to transform the OAKA Olympic Stadium in northern Athens into a dual-purpose facility.
The European Union has decided to mobilize the European Union Solidarity Fund to provide assistance to Italy, Slovenia, Austria, Greece and France, relating to six natural disasters that occurred in 2023.
Rescue teams evacuated the remaining 10 tourists from the UK, the Netherlands and Belgium who had to spend the night inside a mountain gorge in Crete, after a rockfall killed a German tourist on Wednesday.
Devastating floods through much of Central Europe and deadly wildfires in Portugal are joint proof of a “climate breakdown” that will become the norm unless drastic action is taken, the European Union’s crisis management chief has said.
Greece “stands in solidarity with Romania, Poland, Czechia, Austria, and Moldova,” where at least 16 people have died in flooding in the past few days.
Following the devastating Storm Daniel that hit Thessaly and surrounding areas a year ago, the government activated state aid through the Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection for households, businesses and farms.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited the town of Farkadona in Thessaly on Monday, a year after the area was devastated by storm Daniel.
The Municipality of Volos warned the public on Friday against swimming in eight of its beaches to protect public health, after thousands of dead fish appeared at the city’s coast and port.
An operation has begun to remove the hundreds and thousands of dead fish from Lake Karla and the Pagasetic Gulf in Volos, central Greece.
The European Commission proposed Tuesday to provide Greece with €101.5 million in aid to support recovery efforts from the disastrous floods of September 2023.
The European Commission is proposing financial support worth €101.5 million for Greece to support recovery efforts following the floods caused by storms Daniel and Elias last year.
The message of the folktale is quite clear: Repeated false alarms can make a population skeptical, leading to disbelief or inaction even when some end up actually being true.
Members of the public will now be able to assess natural disaster risks thanks to a new smartphone app that facilitates communication with authorities.
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