FLOODING...

TESSA3 · Post by **TESSA3** » Wed Aug 14, 2002 5:32 pm

Hi all.
I see on the BBC news that
Prague and Austria is nearly
underwater due to the extreme flooding, lets hope our good buddies at Knifeshop, and Mr Tanto at Mikov are O.K. otherwise all our goodies will get well soggy...
Cheers.
TESSA3

Post by **jim d,** » Wed Aug 14, 2002 8:15 pm

Tessa3,

Thanks for the update. I wish they could send some of the rain to North Carolina, USA. We are having a terrible drought.

Jim

hollowdweller · Post by **hollowdweller** » Wed Aug 14, 2002 11:39 pm

I e mailed Tanto today because I saw about the flooding. Maybe he will read this and check in.

Jim, we are having mostly drought too.

The Falcon · Post by **The Falcon** » Thu Aug 15, 2002 12:47 am

Drier than Hillary's fundamental orifice here in So. California. This was the driest year since 1880 when they 1st started keeping records. (4.7" opposed to average 15")

The Falcon

J-man · Post by **J-man** » Thu Aug 15, 2002 1:37 am

Send some of the rain out west they need it too, All those farms and those forest fires.

hollowdweller · Post by **hollowdweller** » Thu Aug 15, 2002 11:35 am

Hi,

Tanto said that the flooding is on the other side of the country from him, but that it was real bad.

We have been having a terrible drought here also. My spring that feeds my livestock watering tank is still going strong though

tanto · Post by **tanto** » Fri Aug 16, 2002 6:07 am

Hello all.

I really do appreciate your concern - fortunately I am on the other side of our country. We are experiencing some heavy rains right now but it is nothing compared to the flooding the western parts of our country are coming through. We had similar situation in 1997 (at one point over 30% of our country was under water) but at that time it was mostly agricultural land and smaller towns. Now the area affected is much smaller but the damage is enormous (right now they are talking about over 2 billion of USD). But we are already getting an international help and I am sure we will get over it. It might take some time but we will survive

).

If you want to see some pictures go here:

http://zpravy.idnes.cz/foto.asp?klic=16013

The web site is in Czech but the pictures do not need comments.
Here is one of them:
http://imgs.idnes.cz/domaci/A020815_3_M ... _Vrbno.jpg

David

http://www.mikovknives.com

PS: to those who have Mikovs on order: The shipments might be delayed a bit because the main post office terminal is in Prague. It now takes more than week to deliver packages within our country (was 2 days before the floods).