Flood Tourists on the Vltava Embankment and the Most Legii, Prague, CZ, 2013

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.