NvB: Bored in Brno?: Warning: Rivers May Flood

Warning: Rivers May Flood

Attention for a public service announcement. If you live near a river, please note: Rivers May Flood. You can remember this with the handy mnemonic, RMF.

High water levels have been recorded in a variety of places around the Czech Republic over the last week. Specific attention has been paid to Prague and places outside-of-Prague. You can see the state of the Danube in Bratislava earlier today for yourselves!

But in all seriousness, yes, there has been some recent flooding in the Czech Republic. Last Thursday Brno was at the ready for a ten-year flood event, which city officials stated "should not cause major problems" (reported Moderní Brno on 29 March 2006). An article from today's Lidové noviny states that thousands of gardens, cottages, and riverside roads were affected in the Brno region, creating an unwelcome spring situation for many people. Their reports, however, also state that floodwaters in south Moravia are already subsiding. Moderní Brno is posting updates at its Web site. You can find English-language updates on the flood situation in Prague and around the Czech Republic at Arellanes's Prague blog.

Tagged: floods, Czech, Brno

Posted 03 April 2006 at 23:56.

The Blog

What is "Bored in Brno"? a) the best Czech movie of 2003, b) a blog about Brno (the Czech Republic's second largest city) and my adventures in and observations of south and east Moravia. I usually post about music, arts, culture, and stuff in Brno; or, I talk about whatever; or, I may bore you.

There's a Czech saying about how you are a new person for every language you learn. Here's your chance to experience Czech vicariously and to become your new self, now conveniently available in English translation. (Or at least something reasonably close to English.)

If you have questions, suggestions, like what you see, or you're just plain bored, don't hesitate to leave a comment or e-mail me.

The Blogger

A graduate student in music and anthropology writing a dissertation about music in Moravia, the eastern third of the Czech Republic. At some point, the Czech Republic's "second city" (that would be Brno) captured my attention, and I've since been blogging about events, arts, music, and other stuff—basically whatever interests me in and around the cityscape. I'm not living in Brno now, but I keep up with the cultural pulse from afar as best I can.

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Comments:

Karla said . . .

Like I say, take me to the river. It's time to go wading. (I'll spare you the imaginary rock song my brother invented in high school relating to water. And then there was the inexplicable ongoing joke about "BIG RIVER." We non-prom-bound high school students had a lot of free time to come up with weird stuff when not practicing for orchestra.)

1:53 AM, April 04, 2006

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