The earth-moving machines, as well as the fire brigade, fight against the mud, the volumes of transported materials and the time, in order to restore, tentatively at first, the traffic in Northern Evia. The focus of interest is interventions at critical points to restore basic access to the area. THE regional governor of Central Greece, Fanis Spanos clearly identifies 17 critical points on the road network where more than 100 construction machines and trucks have been deployed to open the road network and allow road traffic.

As of yesterday afternoon, the road axis that leads from Chalkida to Edipsos and that had collapsed between Mantoudi and Procopius. Roughly repaired the damage to facilitate traffic. According to the Regional Governor of Central Greece, “the first priority is to clean the lowland beds of the streams, which have overflowed, to restore some critical operations and to remove the portable materials from the burned areas” as Mr. Spanos said while adding that “it started and the recording of the interventions that need to be done, as a matter of priority, as winter is ahead of us and even heavy rainfall is not excluded”.

Everyone’s eyes are also on the projects that were carried out in the streams by the Forestry Departments, whether they concern logs or small technical ones, which according to the estimations of the staff of the Directorate of Forests of Evia “kept enough of the materials but now they need repairs or even and additions to make them work.”

According to Deputy Governor of Evia, Mr. Giorgos Kelaiditis “an effort was made to shield the vulnerable areas of Northern Evia with the consequence of preventing, mitigating, in many cases, the consequences of this phenomenon” to add meaningfully that “these interventions were not enough to prevent the destruction they suffered and many areas but also agricultural facilities and businesses”

At the same time, the residents of the area are trying to remove thousands of tons of mud that is literally inside their houses. In Rovies, where the torrents passed through the village, the Fire Department continues to pump water, as basements have been flooded, including professional hotel facilities. Nightmarish images from the Krya Vrysi of the Municipality of Limni-Mantoudi-Agia Anna where an entire house was swept away and is sinking, due to the rush of a torrent in the area. The torrent became a huge river due to the large volume of water.

It widened its bed and practically passed through the houses. Fortunately, however, without any problems with human lives. It is not only the house that was swept away by the torrent, there are also other houses that are actually in danger. The volume of water that fell in its area is enormous Istiaias. According to the National Observatory the rainfall is equivalent to almost 500 tons of water per acre in a particularly short period of time. Next to Oreus, the equivalent is 350 tons. Water and mud continue to cause problems since the mountains have not actually dried up yet.

Residents are talking about a gratuitous shot, as the areas had been hit recently. They themselves are fighting a battle with the muddy waters they are trying to remove, while at the same time counting their wounds, for households that were lost, for facilities that were sacrificed, for business premises that no longer exist. Landslides on the road network are a constant phenomenon and hundreds of earthmoving machines are working non-stop in various areas to be able to remove the landslides along the road network.

Already much damage to the power grid has been repaired. The waters carried away hundreds of network poles and PPC crews had to lay kilometers of cables.

At the same time, the submission of statements in relation to the lawsuit measures announced by the government began. Stones and rubble have covered a large part of the road network and have disrupted traffic. Already in some cases of direct intervention within the last 24 hours access has been created, while according to the General Police Directorate of Sterea there are prohibitions on several roads in the area.

In particular, the movement of vehicles is prohibited on the following roads in Evia:

*on the 64th month of E.O. Chalkida – Edipsou (regional Strofillias),

*on the 2nd month of Ep.O. Kirinthos – Kryas Vrysis (Kirinthos),

*on the 127th month of E.O. Chalkida – Edipsou (place of Rema Katsirelou Istiaia),

*in Ep.O. Rovion – Istiaia (via Maroulio – Vouta),

*in Ep.O. Istiaias – Vouta,

*in Ep.O. Rovion – Osiou David (at the height of Paleochori),

In addition, vehicular traffic has been temporarily prohibited:

*in the Municipality of Istiaia – Edipsos, in the wider area of ​​Istiaia, Orea, Neo Pyrgos and Agiokampo,

*in the Municipality of Istiaea – Edipsos, in the areas of Asmini, Pefki, Artemisio & Gouves.

In Fthiotida

Maybe at the last moment, the southern side of the city and a village were saved from flooding, since its embankments Sperheiou river they endured, but the problems exist at a particularly high intensity. Dozens of torrents have overflowed in the center of the prefecture, they have destroyed infrastructure in a large part of the road network. The authorities have begun the effort to tentatively restore some points to allow traffic.

In the Bricklayerthe nightmarish images from the previous bad weather, became more nightmarish, now that the uncontrolled waters once again covered the entire area.

In the villages Sofiada and Petrilla, the residents have returned to their homes again, after the evacuation of their villages, but the devastation becomes nightmarish. What they managed to fix from the previous bad weather was now buried again under muddy water.

The road network is impassable in a large part of the area. The railway line, from Domoko to Larissa, for a large part of it, practically does not exist. No one can estimate the time when the Athens-Thessaloniki railway connection will be able to operate again. The desperation among the farmers is immense, as they have not only lost their produce, but have also lost their fields. In the Vardalis community of Domokos and in the surrounding villages, the fields do not exist. They have been covered with stones and rubble, to a height of over 6 meters. Earth, stones and trees carried from the mountains, reached the fields when the torrents broke.

Irrigation networks do not exist, agricultural warehouses have been demolished, wells are now non-existent, warehouses with supplies and products have disappeared. The rough restorations on the road network in the area have started, while according to General Police Directorate of Sterea the interruption of traffic continues on the following streets of Fthiotida:

*in Ep.O. Baths of Ypatis – Ladikou – Syka – Vistriza Bridge, due to rainfall – accumulation of water.

*on the 1st month of Ep.O. P.C. Vardali – Postal Code Filiadonos, due to subsidence of the bridge that leads to T.K. Agrapidias, with the traffic being carried out through the road at the height of the 44.5th street of P.E.O. Lamia – Larissa,

*on the 16th month of Ep.O. Domokou – T.K. Petrotou, due to the subsidence of a bridge that leads to Petrotou Postal Code, with traffic being conducted through T.K. Agrapidia and street at the height of the 44.5th street P.E.O. Lamia – Larissa,

*from the intersection of Gorgopotamou Street to the intersection of Riga Feraiu Street in Domoko Fthiotida,

*on an existing bridge of the municipal coastal road of Agios Georgios Pelasgias, which suffered erosion – subsidence.