Heavy rains filled the rivers and dams and flooded villages and hundreds of decars of agricultural land in Varna region in the beginning of February this year. As a result of the bursting of the Tsonevo dam 450 people were evacuated. The domestic animals from the villages of Belichkovo, Grozdovo, Tsonevto and Dabravino At a safe place were also taken at a safe place. The people were accommodated in schools, kindergartens, or at their relatives’ or friends’ houses. The police from the Regional Directorate of the Ministry of Interior were guarding their properties. The levees were blasted to allow the water to flow around. The authorities were also prepared to order evacuation of people from the villages of Goren and Dolev Chiflik. The reason for overflowing of the Tsonevo dam is the controlled discharge of the water of Kamchiya dam. On 2nd February as a case of emergency arrived the Minister of interior, Veselin Vuchkov, the Secretary General of the Ministry of Interior, Svetlozar Lazarov and the Minister of Environment , Ivelina Vasileva. Later they visited the Tsonevo dam to get acquainted with the situation.
The District Governor of Varna, Stoyan Pasev and the Mayor of Varna, Ivan Portnih was also there. “The current situation in the Municipality of Dalgopol is returning to normal. The Tsonevo dam is overflowing by 120 m/sec. and 25 cubic meters water per second is discharged under control. It is expected the water level to drop. The level of Kamchiya river has dropped by a meter and a half. The Ticha dam in the upper area of the river still has free capacity, and Kamchiya dam is slowly overflowing”, said the Minister of Environment and Waters, Ivelina Vasileva. She added that in other disaster areas of the country the situation was returning to normal, nevertheless, all preventive measures were undertaken. "In the region of Municipality of Dalgopol some of the agricultural lands are flooded, but the costs are still not calculated”, said the Minister Vasileva. 64 houses in Dalgopol were damaged by the flood. “The water came from two sides and we didn’t understand what happened. It broke the door and flow inside. We waded through a half meter high water. We live there for 20 years and I have never seen such a disaster”, said with tears in her eyes Temenuzhka Yaneva, a 68 years old woman, to the team of Media Group “Cherno More”. Her daughter and son-in-law were there with buckets and shovels to throw the mad. The Temenuzhka’s house is situated at Nikola Obretenov Street, which along with Zdravko Bombov Street were the most damaged streets in Dalgopol. 64 houses were hit by the flood. Teams of firefighters pumped the water from the houses and yards of the people. The Temenuzhka’s house was unrecognizable. The yard was flooded, the rooms were full with mad and all undamaged household belongings - tables, chairs and clothes were put on the beds. „We waded in over a meter of water, everything is damaged”, said the woman. “We have no clothes, no sheets, no blankets, no beddings, all household belongings are damaged. 20 hens are drowned, our homemade canned food prepared by us for the winter, is destroyed. My daughter took a week of unpaid leave to clean the house with my son-in-law. This house is built by me and my late husband, it was so beautiful, but now ….” The woman was grateful to the Mayor Marinka Ivanova and to the Municipality, which first helped the people. “God bless the Mayor. This morning she brought us bread. We have no food, no beds. Now we are staying with our neighbors, but how long can we stay there”, said the elderly woman with tears in her eyes. Lex ins’s opinion on the topic The tragedies are unpredictable. The natural disasters do not depend on the season or our wishes. The weather forecasters are not able to predict the disasters with certainty. They arise suddenly and cause damages. Sometimes there are human casualties – the biggest loss that can ever happen. Sometimes houses, household belongings, livestock, agricultural fields and crops are destroyed. All this makes the way of life and the occupation of the people.
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