Five months have passed since unprecedented flooding devastated the Thessaly plain, a crucial breadbasket of Greece. Farmers like Babis Evangelinos are still grappling with the aftermath, as vast expanses of cotton fields, almond orchards, and grazing lands remain submerged underwater. 🚜💧
Evangelinos now navigates his flooded farmland in a small motorboat, passing by the submerged trunks of his once fruitful almond trees near Lake Karla. \"I could never have imagined I would have to board a boat to get to see my land,\" he shared, watching pelicans and herons soar above the now waterlogged landscape.
Alongside the inundated fields, expensive farming equipment sits idle, and a pumping station intended to prevent such flooding is now stranded in a shallow lake. The prolonged presence of floodwaters continues to pose a significant threat to the livelihoods of countless European farmers battling the increasing extremes of weather patterns. 🌍⚠️
