More flood casualties feared as Europe braces for more rain.
Following floods that wiped out thousands of homes and killed many people people in Europe. The country has established displacement centers and begun rescue operations.
Moving people to safety is being done using military boats and planes. Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu has stated that the current priority is to prevent additional casualties.
Heavy rains have been raging over eastern and central Europe for the past few days. Increasing river levels and prompting flood alerts in several countries including Hungary, Poland, Austria, and the Czech Republic.
Parts of Poland have ordered the evacuation of residents. While the flood barriers in the Czech capital Prague have been raised.
While conducting a search and rescue operation in the district of Galati in southern Romania. Emergency services reported to the AFP news agency that four bodies were discovered.
“Dozens of people were rescued from their homes in 19 areas of the country,” according to them.
Tomasz Siemoniak, Poland’s minister of the interior, recently complained of a “difficult situation” along four rivers.
The communities of Morow and Glucholazy are especially worried since the River Biala has risen two meters over safe levels in the southwest.
Although Piotr Jakubiec, a resident of Glucholazy, had sandbags and pumps ready to redirect the water. He said that it was “impossible to predict what’s going to happen.”
I have witnessed this phenomena twice before in my life. According to him, it’s a living nightmare for the locals.
Another local, Zofia Owsiaka, reported that the whole town was “scared” and that “no hope of the rain stopping” appeared to be the situation.
Obviously, I’m terrified. There is no natural force more potent than water. She stated that everyone is terrified.
Reports from local media indicated that thousands of Wroclaw residents were forced to rely on the staircases of their high-rise buildings due to the closure of the elevators caused by fears of floods.
Forecasts are “not overly alarming” and the danger does not cover the entire country. As Prime Minister Donald Tusk has tried to reassure the people.
At least 38 places in the Czech Republic were placed on the most serious flood warning.
The zoo and embankments in Prague have been closed to the public and flood barriers have been erected.
A steel fence, one meter thick, was erected on Friday morning to block off the city’s so-called Devil’s Canal, also known as Certovka.
Designed to forestall a recurrence of the devastating floods of 1997 and 2002, the gate is one link in a system of flood protection that spans the country.
This weekend, the country’s center and east will be under intense scrutiny, particularly North Moravia, the site of 50 fatalities in 1997.
During the next three days, the Jeseniky highlands may receive 400 mm of precipitation. This water will eventually flow into Poland via the River Oder, which is called Odra in Czech, and will pass through several cities and villages en route.
In the Czech Republic, the highest flood alert had been declared in 38 different locations.
In Prague, flood barriers have been raised, embankments have been closed to the public, and the zoo has been closed.
On Friday morning, a one-metre-thick steel gate was used to close off the so-called Devil’s Canal or Certovka, which runs through the city.
The gate is part of a nationwide network of flood defences installed to prevent a repeat of catastrophic damage caused by flooding in 1997 and 2002.
Attention is focused this weekend on central and eastern parts of the country, especially North Moravia, where 50 people lost their lives in 1997.
The Jeseniky mountains could receive some 400mm over the next three days. And that water will then cascade down the River Oder (Odra in Czech) and on towards Poland. Passing a number of towns and villages on the way.
