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Surroundings of Nádszeg at the time of the flood
Nádszeg (Trstice), located in the Galanta District in Slovakia, was in the greatest danger. On Thursday, March 30, 2006, the village—surrounded by the Little Danube and the Feketevíz stream—was suddenly flooded from two sides at once. Feketevíz posed the greater threat; the levee had to be reinforced there. In 1965, the great Danube flood inundated part of the village. Now the water level was 65 centimeters higher than it had been then.
“In 1997, during the last major flood, villagers had managed to stack 12,000 sandbags, but this time they had to stack 150,000 sandbags and even with these survival was still uncertain. Back then, residents thought things could not get any worse. But it did. The truth is, the 1997 flood was a good test. If they had not had that experience back then, they certainly would not be sitting here now.”
In Nádszeg, everyone is talking about a minor miracle. But people’s hearts were in the right place, and help did not fail to arrive either.
“On the 30th, I went out to the Little Danube because, listening to the news, anxiety was gnawing at me: what would happen to us? I saw that there would be trouble. We immediately began monitoring the water, measuring the level every two hours. We continued the measurements through Thursday night. By Friday morning, we could already see that there was trouble,” remembered the city’s mayor at the time of the tragedy, Ferenc Juhos.
Surroundings of Nádszeg at the time of the flood. Photo: Ferenc Juhos
Works immediately halted in the village and people went out to the levee with the municipal employees. Within a couple of hours, it became clear that they were outnumbered, thus the mayor called the cooperative and asked them to send about thirty people. By noon, it was obvious that even that was not enough. On Friday, the mayor called the State Secretary of the Interior, then the minister—and asked for helicopters because it was no longer possible to transport the bags by car on the soggy embankments. The helicopter arrived in the morning. Then another one, and later two more from the army.
By Saturday, 200 soldiers were working on the levee; on Sunday, 350; and by Monday, 460. They had to stack sandbags along a twelve-kilometer stretch of the levee to protect Nádszeg.
Just like the women of Eger who fought against the Turks, the women of Nádszeg behaved heroically during the hardest days of the flood; they were also there at the levee, defending their village shoulder to shoulder with the men.
The mayor also highlighted the young people’s steadfastness. On Sunday morning, the final announcement over the loudspeaker was: “this might be our last hope to save the village.” By then, the entire town of Nádszeg and the surrounding area were out there; there must have been about two thousand villagers. But even that was not enough, because on Monday the water was still rising. That day, no one went to work; everyone stayed home. The news kept saying the floodwaters had finally peaked, but every morning it turned out they had not.
“On Monday, I announced over the loudspeaker that the women should come too. The number of women who showed up to fill sandbags was unbelievable! And the children, the schoolchildren, came without being called. It occurred to me involuntarily: this village has a future. By then, the embankment had already begun to shift under the weight of so many sandbags. We had to send the people away, but no one wanted to go home. Fortunately, no one was injured,” said Juhos.
The water surged at the edge of Nádszeg, and the embankment was like a sponge; the ground practically undulated beneath people’s feet. Everything was soaked, but the sandbags placed on the levee protected the village.
They placed 300,000 sandbags on the levee back then. After many, many difficult moments in the battle against nature, they managed to win thanks to an unprecedented show of solidarity and God’s help. After a victory in Nádszeg, many people only remember who scored the goal, or perhaps who provided the assist. I say that what we must remember now is that the goal and the assist were provided by the countless people who stood there on the levee.
Featured image: Ferenc Juhos
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