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Section 1	Has lived in Goworów all her life. Describes the day the flood began and her desperate attempts to evacuate the house and save her hens and cows.
Section 2	Her “neighbours helped us to take whatever was possible”. She, like others, was simply not prepared for the scale of the disaster.
Section 3	To her, the flood was comparable to “an outbreak of war. I didn’t wash, I didn’t sleep, I didn’t eat”. She does not rely on TV weather forecasts, but instead focuses “much more on observing the weather” herself.
Section 4	She was pleasantly surprised “that the aid was organised so quickly” from the government and her employer. Felt that “those least affected demanded most … I didn’t do that”. She doesn’t expect any compensation for the damage.
Section 5	Makes a few observations about how the flood affected her students: “they were ill-tempered, nervous, exasperated”. Afterwards, she did wonder whether to leave the area, but decided she could not because of her “very strong emotional ties with this place”.
Section 6	Describes some of the resentment and envy that occurred as a result of the distribution of assistance. Also notes the trauma that her father experienced: “I could see that he suffered very severely, and I see it is still in his memory”.