Not less than 5,000 people expect to be evacuated if the breach the Danube created in the dam at Bistret is not covered.
One can hear the frogsâ croaks in all the villages on the Danubeâs bank all the way from Turnu-Magurele to Calafat. Itâs Monday night and the people are not on the streets because of a holiday, but because of the news about the Danube. "It tears upâ¦", "I heard it has torn up", "It will take us off the face of the Earth"â¦
WANDERING. The spring night starts to sound like heavy army trucks and horsesâ tramp in Carna.
The carts coming from Bistret and Plosca carry bed cushions, which sway over the old furniture. The people have started to leave for their relatives and neighbors where the Danube cannot reach. In the evening, they were announced to gather their things and leave. Most of them carried the important things out of their houses and then got back. This is the fifth night in which the villagers in Bistret donât sleep and try to enforce the dam that protects the village.
HARD-HIT. The road to Calafat suddenly stops after Bistretul Nou. Negoi, Catanele and Rast are the villages on the other side. More than 4,000 people have been evacuated from these localities after the river broke through the dams a few meters away from the place where the authorities wanted to create a strategic breach. However, the strategic move caused many disasters. Hundreds of people in the Rast village still wait for the waters to go back. They stay in tents or on the sides of the road to Bailesti.
OVER THE DAM. At dawn, the Danube has passed over the dam in three places. If the river breaks here, the danger will maximize for the several villages in down the river. If this happens, more than 5,000 people will be evacuated. Razzle-dazzle. Hundreds of members of the riot police, tens of cars. Carts with bags and rocks run to the f
