The numbers on the map depict the strength of last year's floods, it was even worse between 1920 and 1945

Statisticians have published a map showing the extent of last year's flood. In Krnov alone, the September flood hit over twelve hundred family houses and more than six hundred apartment buildings. It affected roughly seventeen thousand people, a quarter of whom were over 65 years old. However, the largest number of buildings washed away was during the floods from 1920 to 1945, when water from the Opava and Opavice rivers spilled far beyond the h…