Prague

Water water everywhere ... and only good (and very cheap) beer to drink.

13 photos taken between August 13, 2002 and August 14, 2002
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Did you hear about the 100 (or 500) year flood in Prague? My sister and I were there.

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Date: Tuesday, August 13, 2002, 9:36:17 AM

The water levels were actually higher than this by the time we left.

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Date: Tuesday, August 13, 2002, 9:37:36 AM

The interesting part of this picture is that they took out all of the sand to make sandbags. I am probably going to re-crop this to make that clearer.

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Date: Tuesday, August 13, 2002, 10:23:30 AM

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Date: Tuesday, August 13, 2002, 10:25:46 AM

You can see that the old town was flooded, and that the Charles Bridge doesn’t have much clearance left.

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Date: Tuesday, August 13, 2002, 10:26:45 AM

The water was the only show in town.

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Date: Tuesday, August 13, 2002, 10:28:54 AM

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Date: Tuesday, August 13, 2002, 10:36:47 AM

They cleared everybody but emergency personal off of the Charles Bridge.

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Date: Tuesday, August 13, 2002, 10:45:37 AM

They even shut off the big town clock.

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Date: Tuesday, August 13, 2002, 11:01:10 AM

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Date: Tuesday, August 13, 2002, 11:12:04 AM

The city turned off power for everything near the river. We were about 4 blocks from the river, so this was our evening lighting.

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Date: Tuesday, August 13, 2002, 9:17:24 PM

At 6:30am on wednesday we got informed that they were evacuating our hotel as a precaution, so we packed up to go to Vienna.

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Date: Wednesday, August 14, 2002, 8:59:41 AM

And as a result we got blue skys, and if you think I wasn’t bitter...

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Date: Wednesday, August 14, 2002, 9:03:54 AM