The flood that occurred in summer 1997 in Poland, affecting the drainage basins of the Odra
and the Vistula, caused 54 fatalities and material losses of the order of billions of US$. The …

… During the first days of the 1997 Great Flood the access to the public TV station was limited.
Among a number of TV stations in Poland, the public TV has the biggest audience. The first …

… LORENC H., 1998 — The meteorological causes magnitude and effect of disastrous rainfalls
in Poland in July 1997. In: Proc. of the 2nd European Conference on Applied Climatology, …

… We are called the United States of Poland because we are … great Flood—the flood that hit
the city in the summer of 1997. … under threat of flooding, including with its “pre-Polish” heritage. …

… The catastrophic flood in the summer of 1997, which in July spread out over an area of 23
voivodeships and 443 districts in southern Poland caused major losses in Polish libraries and …

… Today, it is Poland’s largest seaport, most important communication centre and also a large
centre of industry (shipyards). Gdansk is situated in the north of Poland, on the coast of Gulf …

… large floods in Poland in the last hundred years, such as the events in March 1924, July
1934, March 1947, July 1960, January 1982, July 1997 (the record-holding flood on the Odra, …

… A collective panic, which spread in Poland during the flood of July 1997, revealed off-stage
properties of state-citizens relationships, ie the inability to trust, as an important aspect of post-…

… preparedness became matters of broad concern, following the dramatic inundations in Poland
in 1997 and 2010, during which the number of fatalities exceeded 55 and 20 respectively. …

… the geomorphic impact of heavy rainfall and flood through selected, most representative …
the Sudetes (Dubicki 1997). A review of past big floods within the Polish territoiy as recorded in …