The hunters one more time proved that they can fight the component of flooding in 1 row with the army and firefighters. No one's seen the enemy hunt on the shafts.
The old hundred-year-old oak must have seen so many people around him for centuries. They were swarming on Monday morning. They came as fast as they could, and there were lots of trucks and people in green hats, walking around the shafts with any poles and kneeling.
A day later any tractors, trucks, another people arrived. Trucks pulled sand into heaps, and people started loading that sand into bags. Yellow, white, blue. They loaded men, loaded women, no substance what. Only somewhere on the side a fewer whiteheads got caught on the onion boxes and cut a sisal string into a fewer tens of centimeters.
Then with this string, the others tied these bags. And then, these bags would burden on the trailers and drive down where the flood shaft was the lowest.
An old oak increasing in a place where there utilized to be a ferry crossing – in the place of a beard – where people have been crossing the another side for centuries Oder has seen akin images. He knew large water was coming. Or miss like 27 years ago...
‘Lisie estate’
This is how this communicative begins from the point of view of oak increasing for centuries on the road leading for centuries through Oder, from Siedlsk to Bytomia Odzański. From the point of view of Robert Złoczewski, a huntsman from the “Borowek” wheel in Zielona Góra, a resident of the close village of Bielaw, starts with a gathering with fellow Marcin Kędzierski, a huntsman from the “Wilk” wheel from Głogów, who only a fewer days earlier became a crisis management inspector in the municipality of Siedlsko and the mayor Daniel Kołtun, who has been in this position for only 4 months.
The Śląskie and Kłodzko sides just swept off the face of the earth, Nysa was flooded. Robert, who works there on a regular basis to join with colleagues from the local hunting wheel erstwhile the “Kędzior” called: “Honey, stay, you're more useful here.“
Everyone knew that in a fewer days the large water would arrive, and to them, everyone knew that the storms had to be strengthened. The first decision was not hard – you gotta check their condition, collect bags and fill them with sand.
On that day, on the website of the Municipal Office, the following information was presented: “Thanks to our cooperation with the hunting wheels, we have located respective twelve foxes, badgers and beavers. In this burrow we put 4 tons of sand in and “a fox settlement” with deep burrows as in the film!” And besides a video showing that the burrow is passing almost on the shaft.
Hunting group
Immediately after, they called the “higher offices” for bags. And here they hear the bags are missing. What do you mean, missing? But where the devil can't send a woman. A cupcake, actually. Asia Zawadzka, a young worker of the Municipal Office, who just caught the nickname “Fire” on that day, due to the fact that everything was arranged quickly, got into a car and went to Poland.
After a fewer hours, the bags were. During this time, the mayor appealed to the residents: come, help. “Golden”, decided to launch hunters. The old Whatsap channels from the Warsaw protest were useful. On the "Thinking Green Mountain" channel there was already a message: “In our territory, we can avoid this (watering). We have 2 days. They are needed to aid monitor the watercourses along the Oder and flood banks."
But the feet came up. A fewer hours later Robert gave a message: “Location of the collection of volunteers to check the embankments in the vicinity of Siedlisk – exit for the ferry crossing at 9 a.m.”
Pole by pole
In the morning, a group of hunters, firefighters from OSP Siedlisko and residents of the municipality appeared at the oak. They moved along the shaft to mark a burrow. Foxes, badgers and beavers. After a fewer hours, the shaft looked like a slalom ski slope.
The pole by the pole. It was already known where to lie first. The “Kędzior” knelt like a shoemaker, due to the fact that by the way it was revealed that individual had pulled quite a few good from the shaft. He didn't miss the grass in the backyard he needed and he didn't worry about it weakening.
The shafts looked like a giant alpine slalom. Marcin Kędzierski, Head of Crisis Management, WKŁ “Wilk” hunterLogs” after reekonesansa . all stick you put in is simply a burrow...
There were more messages coming out of the hunting groups. Olivia Spyrka, a young intern of Diana from the “Diana” Sulechów organized a group to assist in the village of Młynkowo, the most delicate point of Odra in Lubuski,
Hunters on deck
On the another side, a large group of hunters from the “Ryś” Nieradz wheel worked on the shaft in Bobrowniki. Peter wrote: ‘Tough terrain, assistance needed in peculiar for laying with sandbag trailers’. Friends from the next wheel have arrived.
Later, the soldiers arrived, which “Rys” made available his cottage, where there are respective twelve places to sleep, kitchen and large hall. The wheel will feed uniforms for over a week...
The "inn Pod Dęb" was fed with excellent food – venison, rabbits, scrambled eggs, bigos and stews, as well as pies and cakes. The products were supplied by locals and hunters, and the ladies from the KGB cooked.Many of them will effort the venison for the first time, many will quietly admit that it was a food “as with Mom”. Andrzej Bawlowicz, president of “Pizhmak” from Niwiska, reported: “Today hunters, foresters and people of good will fought to keep the shafts in Ciedów on the Beaver”.
From Lasek pod Czerwieński there was information that hunters from the “Bór” wheel from Zielona Góra under the hunting chief Paul Ławrynowicz, and from the “Grandel” wheel from Przybiel, led by the forester and president Marcin Walkiak are securing the village of Laski, which Odra flooded in 1997.
Waldek Boyko, baker and hunter, apologized that he was not on the shafts but must be at work, but immediately added: ‘Delivering of bread for safety workers’. Krzysiek Smogórz of “Kniei” Zielona Góra called for his colleagues to aid in Brody, where late the airlock broke.
Headquarters under oak
The water was already coming to Opole, and on the shafts close Siedlisk, everyone was wrapping up like hell. Above all, residents of the endangered villages of Dębianka and Radocina, lying advanced and never threatened Siedlsk, firemen from Siedlsko OS, anglers from the “Kielb” wheel, a group of hunters from the local “Daniel” ellipse of Siedlsko, as well as volunteers from the mentioned “Borska” Zielona Góra, WKŁ “Wilk” Glogów and “Knieja” Zielona Góra. Even though they're not the ones who showed up to call their friends. Local farmers and entrepreneurs appeared with the equipment, hunters put the truck and laying at their disposal.
"Marinar hand-to-hand feeder," from hands to hands, thousands, thousands of bagsIt began the first bag laying, the first gap filling, the strengthening of the base shaft. If it broke, a large part of the municipality would...
Many remembered the year 1997 erstwhile the water was dripping through the shafts and at the last minute the leak was stopped. Now it looked just as dangerous – if not more dangerous. The pictures from Page and Land were not encouraging.
On the shaft, in the place of the old ferry crossing, a staff-logistic centre was formed under the increasing oak. Thus, the mayor Daniel Kołtun with his chief of crisis management Marcin Kędzierski – the huntsman from the “Wilk” Głogów ellipse – gave instructions, here he organized the work of informal coordinator Robert “Złotko” Złoczewski – the huntsman from the Borówka wheel in Zielona Góra. There were a fewer tons of sand, here it was loaded into bags, hence it was distributed on shafts.
Here, under the oak, there was a food station. On Wednesday, she was already “organized” – everyone was afraid, but everyone acted. The wave was expected to come on Sunday and be higher than 27 years ago.‘Organised Panika’
Invaluable were hunting grounds and military layings .and caravans, which on the base of the embankments, and sometimes on the crown hundreds of thousands of bags. More than 13,000 sandbags went to fill the previously located beaver, fox and badgers!
On Friday, the first soldiers appeared. 63 sailors from the 8th Coast Defence Fleet, specifically the ORP Lublin and the 8th MW Anti-Aircraft Division. All volunteers under the command of Captain Kamil Chorązniewski.
Once again, water was a marine element. Tell them that the occupation was burning in their hands was not adequate to say! Sailors and – it is hard to compose “marine” , so let us compose “the ladies serving in this formation” – for the following week they worked 16 hours a day.
Hop, hop, hand to hand. 16 hours a day for 7 days...Magda waved the sacks as well as Andrew, Przemek with Marcin flew with caravans until nice, local entrepreneurs loaded big-bags and drove to the most endangered places.
Other troops would come and go. and the sailors stood on the shafts for 7 days, with sleep breaks and food. These girls and boys in dark blue uniforms and blouses belong to the inhabitants of Siedlisk, and most likely to the full Lubuskie word of appreciation.
Drones over the shafts
In those days, it frequently reminded me of how in 1997 the first thing we needed in the flood was asked by Admiral Łukasik – the then commander of the Navy – but this is simply a subject on another story.
When respective hunters volunteered for night patrolling the shafts Marcin just looked; “You are stupid! I'm not letting anyone on the ramparts tonight. They're as soft as Helena's grandmother's fluffy feather. We have drones of colleagues and they will monitor the situation.”
From the very beginning, the drones of a fellow huntsman Bartłomiej Maciejewski and a forester from Mirocina Wieszka Płochociński flew over the shafts. But the hunters were inactive useful. During the night, Martin and Robert scattered a fewer of them, those who had night imagination goggles on their ambons behind the shafts and ordered them to observe the situation.
Do you request a signature for this photo?...And this was good and bad. Bad news is, the water went up and the predictions said she'd be more than 1997. Okay, 'cause it was coming to work. Firefighters – volunteers loosened firefighters – professionals, troops arrived. erstwhile the wavehead came all the holes were patched, the base of the shaft was madeshiftly reinforced, but the water is element. In addition, the beavers were busy, digging through the shaft.
“This boy of a bitch in the night dug through the full shaft and our water runs like a shower.” Marcin, the huntsman lost all sympathy for good animals in a fewer hours. He'll most likely get over it, but on Monday, he was ready to shake the Prime Minister's hand for the announcement of the conflict against the castor fibre on the ragged shafts, even though he was not a supporter of the PO for a long time.
So reloading bags and clogging holes. A trailer under the shaft, then a chain of human hands and up, under the crown to fill another hole.
In an oak tent
The military has come to the occasion. Soldiers in green uniforms rotated- The Wielkopolska WOT Brigade, the 17th Mechanized Brigade from the Internian, though even a unit from the 16th Division from Elbląg appeared. Almost 400 soldiers passed through the ramparts in the municipality. Only sailors were constant.
It was managed efficiently by Captain Kamila Dudek of WOT. Unofficially, Złoczewski besides helped the huntsman who managed to transport the food, and from somewhere he downloaded fresh deposits, and this towing of damaged equipment he organized.
Meal on the shafts... Wójt Koltun at first walked nervously. Not only does it should be coordinated, the military, the guards, the local farmers, these journalists... And this TVN is gonna show up, and this is local TV, and this is from Onetu. And he's only been in office for 4 months and inactive a small out of it. But it should be said – the school of life passed rapidly and within 14 days of the learner's mayor became a master full of mouth.
Days passed, and the threat did not. Marcin, as the crisis chief, slept in the shelter under the oak tree. Then they laughed about how his snoring was carried to the village...
The day always started the same. Wake up in the morning. Wrapping bags, laying on shafts, dinner, spreading bags, laying on shafts, dinner, spreading bags, laying on shafts.
From dawn to dusk. Of course, quite a few tiny things - commissioning, fuel, transport of utilized equipment, changing machines, cigaret and short nap under oak. Coffee, a sip of water and bags again. 10 days, like monotonous, yet not the same. Tens of tiny and larger problems – who will deliver water, who will feed today, and will the bread be in time?
‘Tough terrain, assistance needed in peculiar for laying with sandbag trailers’This is where the soak was removed, but there the water starts flowing through the road. Where did it come from? That's where the burrow was buried, and that's where the beaver made another one. And reflection of the mirror of water – is it growing, or not growing? At what rate? Is the shaft gonna hold or not?
‘Inhabitation of oak’
The visits of the advanced charge gave comfort. General Ostrowski of the General Staff, Commander of Flotilla Rear Admiral Sikora. They felt that they were not alone on the shafts, that they could number on support. Of course, it wasn't without insignificant missteps, grumps, but mostly everyone felt they were like 1 family.
The communicative of how the municipality of Siedlisko fought with the large Water would be uncertain without the title thread – this "Inspode pod Dęb" precisely.
The local ladies took good care of the defenders' stomachs.For as it was said on the second day under the oak the tents were laid down, and then the benches and tables. due to the fact that what a conflict against the flood with an empty belly, so in addition to the place where the sand was poured, where logistics was concentrated, where the orders were coming from, under the oak, began to function "The Inn under the oak" – specified a nickname was given by the defenders of the shafts of this place.
And in a restaurant like this, local women ruled. all day, any Housewives Club prepared warm meals. The mayor set the schedule, and the ladies of the individual wheels made certain that those working on the shafts had a warm meal.
Locals were very supportive of soldiers and firefighters. Roksana Jagieła gave 100 eggs, Grażyna Pocztańska did not want to be worse, Krzysztof Niedaleki's bakery delivered bread all day, the bakery “Fijoł” did not want to be worse. Hanna Ratasiewicz – what to hide, not a young female – did not leave “The Inn” for 10 days. She was like Kurt Scholler – legendary cook of Warsaw Sheraton – always there, she saw everything, she looked after everything.
For hours she was assisted by Agnieszka Balajewicz, Roksana Jagieła, Grażyna Pocztańska and, of course, Diana from WKŁ “Wilk” by Elwir Kędzierska, Marcin's private wife, who was sreberko-wrote.
Here by the pots, there by the string cutting, here by the coffee making. Just a cigaret break had to be... “Damn it, I was expected to get utilized to it, and through this flood, the sincere intentions went to hell!” she said after all cigarette.
Wild boar stew
You can't name all the ladies who work here. However, Annia “Mysha” Złoczewska, who cooked wonderful venison dishes, previously hunted by her husband, was expected to go to home-cooked venison and went to feed the whale workers, many of whom first tasted deer or chaotic stew.
Many of the soldiers and firefighters for the first time in their lives cost venison...He besides fed the owner of the celebrated “Wagyu Stek House” from Sława, the 1 about which all newspapers in Poland wrote in the summer, that he serves the most costly burgers in our country, which, despite the advanced prices, find buyers. The owner is the huntsman from the “Rys” wheel from the famed Tomek Suplicki – “Bojko from “Słonka” called me and then Złoczewski from “Borzyka” whether I would help. How's that? I had a fewer boars and deer in stock made into sausages for myself, and I took them out of the pantry and drove them to different places on the shafts respective times. I couldn't stand the boys myself, but let them try. The well fed will have the strength of these sacks to carry...”
Everyone besides told about the rabbits of Agnieszka Balajevich. Mrs. Agnes has a large breeding of these furs. In Dębinka, which was threatened with flooding most – “There were over 100 carcasses in the freezer. I thought of how to flood it for me, so let people eat it.”
So she took out the meat and the pot. I think quite a few soldiers and firefighters for the first time in their life cost rabbit stew. It was ridiculed that she was 1 of the victims of the defence of the shafts in Siedlisk, due to the fact that she was severely stabbed in the knee and was the second case erstwhile the first aid had to be used.
Soldiers, firefighters, hunters, civilians ate what the local ladies had prepared. Gulash, soup, bigos, whatever. And the military cans lay inactive in the tent. Who's gonna eat cans erstwhile you're here? And erstwhile it seemed that respective servings might be missing it was “Mish” -Ania Złoczewska rapidly cooked a fewer times a deer stew and drove from home.
At a time erstwhile the “Inns of Oak” had a break, the ladies sat on the boxes and cut the sisal string from a bundle into pieces to bind the bags. As they then stated – “In a year we will do a string cutting competition and we will be in the jury.”
Only on the last day did the soldiers decide to take advantage of the offer of the Green Mountain McDonalds – which they proposed after a set for everyone – wanted to relieve at least erstwhile local women. At the farewell campfire, 1 of the ladies said with a laugh: “There is nothing left in the home but bread, for the remainder of the supplies the army, firemen and hunters ate.”
The hunters were everywhere on the defensive.That hunting thread was very present. Marcin Kędzierski, the chief of crisis always wore a hunting hat, Robert Złoczewski had either an orange coat or a vest with the inscription “Thinkers, farmers, a common cause, Dorożała must leave” due to the fact that Robert the strong 1 is given in the trade union “Common Case”. Elwira, Marcin's wife, Diana from WKŁ “Wilk” Głogów, who spent 10 days working in “The Inn close Dęb”. And then the next 10 got sick at home with a fever of over 40 degrees.
W There was no place in Lubusek where there would be no more well-organized group of hunters on the shafts next to the locals, firemen, troops.
When the wave went through and the water stopped increasing and the danger seemed to have passed, the order “Catch” came. Evening gathering and goodbye. The mayor thanked the soldiers, the soldiers thanked the ladies for their excellent food, took respective photographs more or little formal, were wiped with stealthy tears and conventional “we will not forget”. Nobody said, “See you again on the shafts.”
On the last day, after 7 days of hard work, sailors of the 8th Fleetil decided to take a commemorative picture. This time they put bags in the inscription symbolizing their formation they stood on the shaft. This photograph takes a prominent place present in the office of the inspector d.s. crisis management, erstwhile military diver and hunter- “Kedizerskeigo”The mayor promised that the shaft would be named the Sailors' Wall.
And the title environmentalists? Ecologists on shafts have not been seen. Nowhere! Only Minister Doroża in precisely erstwhile the wave passed through Krosno Odrzańskie and flooded subkroszonskie villages, which and how the hunters besides defended, decided to make them a ‘gift’ and announced that he was preparing a regulation prohibiting duck hunting. The words that flew under his (and Prime Minister) address that day on the shafts from Opole to Kostrzyn are not suitable for printing...
