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Floods in Hungary

Anonymous — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 18:16:34 GMT

I saw the floods effecting Budapest on BBC.

I pray that the Graphisoft Head quarter's and the Graphisoft Team are safe and well and the situation improves rapid with minimum lost to life and property for all.

Best of luck to you all.

Re: Floods in Hungry

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:26:17 GMT

The GS offices are atop some pretty high cliffs as I recall. Hard to imagine the flood waters making it that far. Of course things may be quite tough for our Hungarian friends even as their offices stay dry.

Here's hoping everyone stays safe and gets though this with little or no loss.

Re: Floods in Hungry

James B — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:30:58 GMT

The water peaked on Sunday evening I think so it has started to slowly recede. GS HQ wasn't flooded but the water got very close to the top of the levee.

We were sand bagging on Friday last week incase it was above that height. Also in the city lots of sand bagging as well, roads are in a bit of chaos and probably will be for most of the week.

Re: Floods in Hungry

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 21:16:37 GMT

Some pictures about what was going on.
Graphisoft Park is actually at the Danube so it was a close call:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151523896018043&set=a.389964463042.173095.191457003042&type=1&relevant_count=1

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151524139048043&set=a.389964463042.173095.191457003042&type=1&relevant_count=1

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151529544338043&set=a.389964463042.173095.191457003042&type=1&relevant_count=1

Re: Floods in Hungry

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 23:22:32 GMT

laszlonagy wrote:
Some pictures about what was going on.
Graphisoft Park is actually at the Danube so it was a close call...

Really? I thought I remembered some pretty high banks there. Glad to hear they were high enough.

Re: Floods in Hungry

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 06:31:15 GMT

Yes, it is pretty close.
The map shows it is no more than 150-200 feet.

Re: Floods in Hungry

Ralph Wessel — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:08:08 GMT

laszlonagy wrote:
Some pictures about what was going on.
Graphisoft Park is actually at the Danube so it was a close call

Just for reference, here's a photo I took with the Danube at a more 'normal' level - note that the water is currently near the top of the wall to the far left.

Re: Floods in Hungary

Laszlo Nagy — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:59:30 GMT

Things are now getting back to normal.
The Danube reached its peak level about a week ago and its level has been lower steadily. Budapest was fine, so was Graphisoft Park.
The highest level was 891 cm, which was 31 cm higher than in 2006, which was also a record. As you can see from the following image, today is about 300 cm lower than a week ago.
So all is good now.

Re: Floods in Hungary

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 16:16:07 GMT

Great to hear every thing is well in Graphisoft office and there's has been minimum loss to life and property.

Saw the video on YouTube. Ironically it was a chance to see the team in action.

But we have had a very massive cloud burst and flooding here in Northern India(Himalayas) with thousands dead, 15000 people missing and entire town, bridges have washed away.

This is how nature is.

And, Archicad helps us design better and safer.

Re: Floods in Hungary

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 10:21:02 GMT

Here is the video Graphisoft put on Youtube to give a glimpse of what it was like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl076RaRi6E