Homes that stayed out of the flooded area can now enjoy the benefits of electricity at irregular intervals. City buses and trams have partially recovered their schedules. Helped by perpetual pumping, water is slowly flowing out from the worst flooded parts of Cernovir, Lazce and Novosady. The biggest fear at the moment concerns envisaged spread of infectional diseases. The flood has brought with it masses of rubbish including animal corpses, sewage dump and many other unpleasant items.
People are in danger of epidemies of jaundice, salmonellis and skin diseases.
Temporal lodging for those who have lost their homes appears to be a part of general housing problem and an easy solution doesn't seem to be at hand. Mayor Kosatik is back from Greece claiming that he has been accompanying his sick wife. A sick person usually lies in one's bed and not on a sunny beach in Greece. Friday edition was very much concerned with Kosatik's departure, so much in fact that it might have been worth considering one's emmigration. Life in Olomouc is slowly recovering.