Civil Protection, public services and the municipality of Volos are on standby in view of the EMY’s forecast that the new bad weather that will come from Monday will also hit the “injured” Magnesia and the Volos area, which have no still heal the “wounds” caused by the passing of the murderous Daniel.

In Volos, where the destruction is enormous in terms of structures and economy, residents are struggling to clean houses and businesses that were swept away by the water, mud and debris that covered entire districts from the overflowing of the Krausidona river.

Already many crews from the region of Thessaly are working feverishly to clean up the Krausidos after the level of its bed has risen over a meter and a half in many cases, from the thousands of tons of stone that the river brought down from the slopes of Pelion, along with huge tree trunks that were uprooted from the rushing waters causing the floods that caused destruction in entire districts in the city of Volos.

Excavation crews have re-drewed part of the Crausidon bed and have created whole mountains of stones to improve the situation in view of the coming bad weather and winter, as the full restoration of the bed requires large and time-consuming works.

At the same time crews of the Municipality of Volos continue to wash and clean the main streets and squares of the city that were covered by mud. They are also washing sewers and cleaning the drainage system to meet the needs of another possible heavy rainfall.

Speaking to APE-MPE, the deputy governor of Magnesia, Dorothea Kolyndrini, pointed out that “we have intervened everywhere and restored networks and communication where necessary in order to return to some normality. The damage is enormous in Pelion and efforts have been made to ensure that no settlement remains isolated. In Puri we built a bypass where the bridge fell. We are preparing for possible new problems from the bad weather, but the experts are not talking about a repeat of the previous phenomena”.

However, the damages in Pelion are incalculable. Both in the East and the South, roads, bridges, cars, houses and properties were lost, but mostly human lives were lost where Magnesia mourns a total of six people.

It is recalled that just yesterday it was announced that Volos has drinking water again, after 18 days of lack due to the destruction of the network, while Pagasitikos is burdened with portable substances that make swimming or approaching the shores prohibited, but also the polluted waters that Pineos reach Lake Karla and are channeled into Pagasitikos gulf, a fact that caused the intervention of the Prosecutors’ Offices of Larissa and Volos, but also the submission of lawsuits against all those responsible by the mayor of Volos, Achillea Beo.

On the occasion of the new bad weather that is expected, measures are also being taken in Lake Karla. Ways to deal with the situation are being considered, since the lake has far exceeded its limits and there is a risk that the new rains will flood the nearby villages between Volos and Larissa.