Greece’ National Meteorology Service EMY warns of one more bad weather front with strong rainfalls, thunder- and hail-storms and gusty winds. The weather deterioration is expected to set in in the West and the North of the country and expand to the islands of the Cyclades, the Dodecanese and Crete. …
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Kos Earthquake 6.4R leaves two dead tourists, dozens of injured LIVE reporting
Kos earthquake: Two dead, more than 120 injured, among them 5 in critical condition. Majority of the injured are tourists. Serious damages in the port of the island of Kos after a powerful earthquake stroke with 6.4 R short after midnight. One third of the island is without electricity. No …
Read More »One dead, flooded homes and agricultural land as summer storms strike Greece
One man lost his life, homes and shops were flooded and agricultural products were destroyed when storms stroke several regions in Greece. In the city of Lamia in Central Greece, a 62-year-old man lost his life in a sequence of tragic events. He had called the fire brigades to pump …
Read More »Athens becomes the first Greek city with integrated Climate Action Plan
Athens is the first city in Greece to develop an integrated Climate Action Plan for both mitigation and adaptation, following the example of other megacities around the world. In the light of World Environment Day on June 5, Athens would like to highlight the ambition this plan sets: to reduce greenhouse gas emissions …
Read More »Residents in Kymi dig burrows in 3m snow to get supplies (Video)
For fifth consecutive day residents of Kymi and surrounding areas remain snowed in. The bad weather front stroke especially the island of Euboea in central Greece, very close to the mainland. Water, electricity and telephone networks collapsed, houses and vehicles have been buried under the snow that reaches a height …
Read More »Refugee camp flooded – Is Chios the new Idomeni? (video)
A strong rainfall on the island of Chios left a couple of hundreds of refugees and migrants sitting in the mud. Rocks have been put at the tents basis to protect them from the next wind blow. Kids play in the mud. The camp of Souda has turned into a …
Read More »Crete: Puppy abandoned, left to die in the storm
Ι believe this little guy deserves a second chance and a special blog post. He was abandoned near the town of Chania, in Crete, amid strong rainfall and winds, left outside to die. But he was rescued by an animal lover who heard him whining and barking. “Amid the strong …
Read More »When it rains, Athens and Piraeus turn into Greek …Venice! (picts, video)
The absolute chaos! Main roads turn into rivers and lakes with floating vehicles and garbage bins. Homes and shops are flooded, while the fire brigades received more than 300 calls to pump water. It took two to three heavy rain showers to mutate the streets in several suburbs in Athens …
Read More »SYRIZA Tsipras meets the President, asks early elections
Just hours after the European Parliament elections result, SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras asked for early elections. Alexis Tsipras’s statement after meeting with the President: “A new political landscape emerged from the EP elections with new correlation of powers. Coalition government parties ND and PASOk suffered losses of more than 11%. …
Read More »A summary of KTG posts Nov 27-28, 2013
For those who missed our posts on KTG.wordpress… below I copy paste the news. This is actually a service for the RSS Feed and E-mail subscribers: Rhodes floods: body of missing teacher washed ashore in Turkey Nov 27, 2013 The body of the teacher who went missing in Rhodes floods was …
Read More »Greek FinMin considers imposing compulsory property insurance
Greek finance ministry considers to make property insurance against earthquake and floods obligatory. According to daily Kathimerini, the compulsory insurance of property against big natural disasters like earthquake and flood is being considered by the finance ministry as an attempt to forestall the possibility of a widespread economic damage from an …
Read More »Some Definitely Want Greece Out of any EU-‘something’ (Euro, Schengen, Disneyland…)
First it was all this pressure on Greece for a euro exit. The last toothless idiot in rags sailing on a wrecked boat around a remote island felt obliged to say something on the issue. Greece became the global scapegoat, whether with or -even without left-wing SYRIZA government. Those Europeans who criticized PASOK and Nea Dimocratia for …
Read More »EURO-BOND: My Weight in Gold as Collateral
My weight (53-55 kg) in gold. This is what I as a Greek would have to give as collateral for Euro bond issue so that Germany can give the green light to the much needed bonds of the euro zone. As I am only one out of 11 million Greeks living …
Read More »Singer Dalaras: The Aegean Belongs to the… Fish
Mama mia! I wouldn’t have thought that famous Greek singer Yiorgos Dalaras would use a stone-age old graffiti slogan to surprise positively the Turks. The slogan ‘the Aegean belongs to the Fish’ is as old as the Noah’s floods and had appeared on an Athens street as graffiti even before Noah …
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