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More areas of main Europe race versus time as floods method

Volunteers and emergency situation workers overcame the night from Tuesday to Wednesday to fortify the Polish city of Wroclaw versus approaching flood waters, while Hungary opened a dam as the prime minister alerted a crucial period was approaching.

The worst floods to strike central Europe in a minimum of 2 decades have left a trail of destruction from Romania to Poland, spreading out mud and debris in the areas, ruining bridges, submerging cars and trucks and leaving authorities and householders with a. expense for damages that will face billions of dollars.

A lot occurred tonight, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk. informed a crisis conference in Wroclaw. We will need immediate. details ... from those places that received high water.

Towns to the south of Wroclaw, such as Lewin Brzeski, have. currently felt the full blast of the floods, forcing citizens to. learn the streets in waist-high water or look for haven on. the roofs of the entrances to blocks of flats.

CRITICAL SITUATION

In Hungary, authorities opened a dam in the country's. northwest to direct water from the Lajta river into an. emergency tank, in a bid to protect the city of. Mosonmagyarovar.

The water was permitted to flow onto farming land.

In the capital Budapest, the Danube is still expected to. peak around or slightly above 8.5 metres, likely on Friday or. Saturday.

Due to heavy rains and floods, the situation is critical. all across Central Europe, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor. Orban said in a post on social media platform X late on Tuesday.

According to the latest projections, the turning point for. Hungary will begin tomorrow (Wednesday), so flood protection is. going complete steam ahead.

Drone footage from Tuesday showed the Hungarian village of. Venek, near Gyor in the north of the nation, submerged under. water.

I believe it's kind of linked to the climate modification. due to the fact that it's an unexpected flood, said 51 year-old regional homeowner. Georg Bercsanyi.

It was raining for four days in the location, particularly around. Vienna in Austria. So that's why we have this high water level. now.

In the Czech Republic, water levels were mostly receding,. but rivers were still peaking in some parts of southern Bohemia.

In the worst-hit locations local homeowners and emergency. services were cleaning up part of the railway line form Prague. to Ostrava, which is likewise on the Vienna-Warsaw path, and was. still out of operation, as well as some secondary railway and. roads.

Financing Minister Zbynek Stanjura said on Tuesday he would. like parliament to authorize a change to the spending plan to make. room for flood relief, despite the fact that the expense of the damage is. still not understood. Stanjura said it might maybe remain in the order. of $4 billion.

(source: Reuters)