A dam in southwestern Poland has overflowed after heavy rains. “The water supply is enormous,” the Lower Silesian community of Bystryca Klodzka explained on X. In the Czech Republic, a town was cut off from the outside world by the floods and thousands of people had to be evacuated. Several people have died as a result of the storms in Romania.
In several places in Poland, more rain has already fallen than during the so-called Millennium Flood in 1997, Prime Minister Donald Tusk explains. The situation is critical because of the overflowing dam in Miedzygorze on the border with the Czech Republic. “Although the water has been drained, it has reached its peak!”, according to the municipality of Bystryca Klodzka
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Mainly elderly people died in floods in Romania
In Romania, deaths have already been reported: at least four people died in the floods in the Galati district of the eastern region of Moldova. The victims were mainly elderly, including two women aged 96 and 86. Another 90 people were evacuated, the news portal digi24.ro reported.
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Water levels in the affected areas reached a height of up to 1.7 meters, the reports continued. People climbed onto roofs to avoid being swept away by the floodwaters. There are 200 firefighters on the scene and an army helicopter has been sent to the disaster area. Rescuers believe that many elderly people, whose freedom of movement is restricted, are still trapped in their homes in the flooded areas.
Thousands of city dwellers evacuated in Czech Republic
The storms with floods and floods continue to keep the emergency services in the Czech Republic on their toes. The border area with Poland in the east of the country is particularly affected. On Sunday evening, the mayor of Cesky Tesin ordered the evacuation of several thousand residents from the city centre. The Olsa, a tributary of the Oder, threatened to burst its banks there.
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Thousands of people had to leave their homes in Opava on the river of the same name earlier due to the acute risk of flooding. Among other things, the largest prefabricated housing estate in the city was hit. People also had to be brought to safety in Krnov and other towns. In the Jeseníky Mountains, the community of Ceska Ves with a population of 2,000 was cut off from the outside world by the waters of the Bela. According to forecasts, an abatement of the rain was not in sight until Monday at the earliest.
In the southwest of the Czech Republic, the Husinec Dam in the foothills of the Bohemian Forest was overflowing. Communities along the Blanice were warned early on. The situation on the Vltava and Elbe was much more relaxed than initially feared. The second alert level (“readiness”) was reached at the measuring station in Usti nad Labem (Aussig an der Elbe). At the Prague-Vyton gauge station, the level of the Vltava was around 2.17 meters above zero on Sunday morning
Source: Krone
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