FLASH
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Just a few hours of rainfall were enough and the city of Durrës woke up to the power of water.
The former Këneta and Porto Romano areas, two informal areas built after the 1990s, have been under water for days and totally isolated.
Residents say they were unable to save anything, as everything happened suddenly in just 15–20 minutes.
"Everything was flooded, I had left some wood outside, but I couldn't get it out, it happened that quickly," said the resident.
The resident, who settled in this area 30 years ago, says that they have never experienced a flood of this magnitude before. In this situation, they were able to save only two cows, while everything else is under water.
"I took the cows to the mountains, and the grass I bought is under water, the river took it away," the resident said.
What you see here in the picture is the road for vehicles, but it has disappeared into the water. What makes it even more dramatic is the fact that the road has been swallowed up by the Porto Romano drainage canal, on the edge of which it runs.
As these Inside Story footage shows, as a result of the flooding, entire families have been isolated by the water, without any means of communication.
"There's a neighbor over there, we can't go because it's too deep. An old woman lives there with an orphaned child in second grade, no one has come," the resident said.
This is the large drainage canal of Porto Romano, built in 1928. Residents say that it was deepened 4 years ago, but without being reinforced with protective embankments on the sides. As a result, the numerous waters that flooded it have swallowed half of the road, which according to residents was 3–4 meters wide.
Footage shows that the road is covered in water on both sides, making it difficult for the army to intervene.
The cleaning and expansion of this canal was part of a nearly 20 million euro project by the Durrës municipality, which also included the construction of a new hydrovor. These images prove that the canal has not only failed to absorb the water and discharge it into the sea, but it appears to be turning it back.
"There is a lack of sewers because we have densified the city's structural units, while the sewers were designed for a certain construction volume, in this sense of people," said Gentian Karapata, an urban planner.
"The city of Durrës has had drainage canals since 1925, since the Italian architects. The same thing happened for the city of Shkodra, the same thing for the city of Vlora," said urban planner Artan Kacani. /Inside Story-TCH/
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