Disaster after disaster


Pix 1: Tsiamitas looking at the burned crop from his almond trees. Pix 2 and 3: Tsiamitas’ family and friends help clean his house after flooding caused by Storm Elias in the village of Sesklo, Greece. — Reuters

THE fires came first. Then the floods. In the small village of Sesklo in central Greece, 46-year old Vasilis Tsiamitas has felt the extremes of both freak weather phenomena this summer, that have made Greece a climate change hotspot.

Storm Elias flooded his house, damaged his beach bar and swept away his car in September, finishing off what was left weeks earlier by Storm Daniel, Greece’s most intense on record, and a July wildfire that scorched his family almond grove.

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