The mayor Mr. Fanis Stathis described the situation prevailing on Thursday in the Municipality of Mouzaki as extremely difficult.

As he said, in the villages on the plain, the water exceeds two and two and a half meters.

He also mentioned how there are 12 people trapped since yesterday in the flooded Rizovuni.

“We asked for a boat from yesterday so that they could be transported but still there has been no response” he told KarditsaLive.Net.

And in the rest of the villages, he continued, there are serious problems with water entering the houses and not being able to move from area to areabut there is the possibility of communication and internal movement.

In the mountains, he added, the mountain network formally and practically does not exist. The access to Vatsunia, Drakotrypa and Dyt. Argithea is cut off at the location of the “Argyri” bridge and within the settlements everything is destroyed. At the same time, landslides are numerous and continuous.

Part of the road that leads from Mouzaki to Gelanthi was “eaten” by the waters of Pamisos and has been closed.

In Mouzaki and in a part of Antoni Vassiliou Street, water has entered houses and shops from the waters coming from the mountains and the overflowing stream. Fortunately not to many, he clarified, but the damages are real and significant.

We have been shouting, Mr. Stathis concluded, for years now, about the Mouzaki dam and we have received unfulfilled promises. If it had been done much of today’s suffering would have been avoided.

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