Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: flood

Here's a shot of the flood barriers that I mentioned earlier. This one was built around one of the shafts into the Malostranska Metro station, which if I'm not mistaken is for a cargo elevator (does anybody know?). The ones along the river looked roughly the same.

During the week of the 3rd-10th of June, 2013, Prague experience considerable flooding as a result of heavy rainfall. Following the much larger flood of 2002, Prague instituted several flood defense systems, which limited the damage this time around. Many tourists turned out to watch the River Vltava rise against the new aluminum flood walls, which look into the sidewalk on each embankment, although you can't see them in this shot. As you'll see later, they also had to be built for the Malostranska Metro station, as there was always the chance that the floodwater could leak into the Metro again and thus bypass the barriers on the embankments.

Usti nad Labem also has a castle, Hrad Strekov, which dates to the beginning of the 14th Century. The bridge of sorts in the foreground is actually not the famous Usti nad Labem bridge, but a sluice gate on the River Labe called the Strekovska Zdymadla.