On the night of 24 June, the Czech Republic was once again hit by flash floods. In the "sudden catastrophe," as it is described in the front-page headline of Mladá Fronta DNES, flood waters carried away everything in their path and killed 12 people. In only a few minutes, streams in northern Moravia were transformed into raging torrents, which combined to send a four-metre-high wave sweeping through the town of Životic u Nového Jičína. Experts have observed that the region is now experiencing a new era of "record flooding," and this latest disaster is only one of several similar incidents to affect the country in recent years. In the columns of DNES, one of them warns, "We will have to prepare for further and more frequent floods, which could occur at any time, and in any location.“
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