Daniel memories a year ago, residents of Agiokambos Larissa experienced in the early hours of Sunday morning, when rain broke out in the area and once again all the streams brought down water.

In fact, as reported by onlarissa.gr, a resident, residents on both sides of the “Puri” stream, ran in panic at 2 in the morning to take the cars, transporting them to the coastal road, fearing that last year’s flooding phenomena would not be repeated. As he characteristically notes: “The stream has not been cleaned since last year.”

According to the deputy mayor of the area, the streams brought down water and the sea turned brown, while he notes that this is not the first time that some portable materials have already been collected on the beach by the municipality.

It is noted that yesterday, the residents were protesting to ERT, saying: “These days, it is one year since the devastating floods that Daniel brought upon us. For a year now we have experienced the complete absence of the state, whatever level it may be. “The problems remain unsolved, with the immediate risk of suffering the same consequences from perhaps smaller-scale weather phenomena”, arguing the following:

  • The estuary of the dry river at the height of the suspension bridge (also mockingly called “Calatrava”), it is obvious that it remains narrower in relation to its bed.
  • So far there has been no activity to withdraw the materials brought by last year’s flood. The bed was not strengthened in height, in the places where the overflow was observed.
  • The residents with their own means and the kind help of entrepreneurs who have earthmoving machines, are trying to restore the roads to their original form, after the flood had turned them into torrents. The absence of the State at all levels was and remains conspicuous.
  • In recent years, there have been successive interventions on the coastal road, as a result of which the settlement we live in has been trapped below its level. The negligence of the state to combine the improvement of the coastal road, with accompanying projects, which prevent flooding phenomena (even milder than last year), has so far had successive disastrous consequences on our properties.
  • On the beach, from the “Calatrava” bridge to the limits where the settlement of Sotiritsa begins, there has been no intervention, like those carried out in the other areas.
  • It is a matter of luck that so far we have not suffered a victim from passing cars, most of the time at high speed.

I screamed

Larisa