Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland: The flood of the century - UPDATE

Sunday's storms and hail in Poland

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19.26 Clock:
RTL meteorologist Christian Häckl the one hand, encouraging other, but also some bad news: Although intended in the eastern flood areas (mainly Saxony) low go rainfall between 20 and 50 liters until the morning, but by a renewed significant rise of the Elbe is not expected . Very different the situation in Bavaria: "Hardly the flood on the Lower Danube has adopted set from the Alps out strong thunderstorms and heavy rain, in the night and morning on towards the Danube and the Bavarian forest spread," the weather expert. Although the rains are much lower than the previous week, but can occasionally because of thunderstorms and heavy rain again up to 150 liters per square meter go down!



19.09 Clock:
Also in Schnackenburgallee on the border with Saxony-Anhalt same leads as much water as never before: With 7.72 meters, the highest level in 2002 (7.51 meters) was exceeded. Lower Saxony Prime Minister Stephen Weil (SPD) wants to visit several places affected by floods tomorrow.

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Germany struggles to hold back flood 'catastrophe'
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20.24 Clock:
Due to the severe flood situation all the debts in the east of the Elbe Magdeburg districts remain closed next week. The primary and special schools in the rest of the city, except in Rothensee remain open. This has been Mayor Lutz Trümper and the Ministry of Culture of Saxony-Anhalt decided.



20.12 Clock:
Hungary also struggling against the floods: The Danube in Budapest will swell to a record height of 8.95 meters - significantly more than the last flood in 2006, when it was 8.60 meters. "The next two days will be crucial," said Prime Minister Viktor Orban.



19.51 Clock:
In the Elbe flood in Pirna leading a corpse has been found. If it were likely to a 74-year-old residents of a nearby retirement home, said the Saxon Ministry of the Interior. Accordingly, the body was discovered near a ferry terminal already yesterday. Whether the person had drowned in the water, would yet been determined. "Currently, there is no evidence of violence," said the Saxon Minister Mark Ulbig (CDU). The 74-year-old was said to be suffering from dementia and have previously indicated that they want to help in flood.

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20.47 Clock:
The list of evacuations apparently knows no end: Given the rising Elbe floods and the evacuation of communities Bleckede Amt Neuhaus (Lüneburg district) is no longer excluded. Handouts were distributed to the residents of both communities with information for the worst-case scenario, said the disaster rod in Lüneburg. If a dam break here or the area to be flooded, more than 10,000 people would be affected by the eviction.

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21.02 Clock:
RTL reporter Thomas Praekelt reported from Magdeburg: "There is at least some good news in this sea of bad. It looks that the same has reached its apex However, it is the longest apex ever recorded in Germany since. so no one has experience, they also do not know how long the water will stand here and how long the levees can withstand this pressure yet. "

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22.00 Clock:
In northern Germany, the hope has been shattered, this time to get off lightly. On Wednesday and Thursday record water levels to be achieved. In some places, workers have begun with sandbags to increase the dike to 30 centimeters. But forecasts of water levels remain difficult.



21.44 Clock:
Falls in Bleckede, Hitzacker and other communities because of high water on Monday at numerous schools from teaching. In addition, the bridge over the Elbe between Lauenburg and Hohnstorf was closed to cars and trains.

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Hungarian capital braces for floods as Danube waters rise

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While literally people are swiming on the streets in Warsaw ( see picture )
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the next wave is approaching to the capital of Poland

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10.06 Clock: Prignitz expected flood peak


The situation in the Prignitz (Brandenburg) is stable. The problematic dike sections were kept informed of the crisis management team with in Mount Pearl. In Wittenberg but would have to be removed at night to Monday two dike vulnerabilities. On Monday morning, 7.78 meters were measured seven inches less than it was on Sunday afternoon. However, the water level is well above the record level of 1888 (7.44 meters). On Tuesday, the flood peak is expected, according to the Crisis Staff. Forecasts are 8.20 meters.


9.45 Clock: New Rain


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In Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg heavy rain is expected again today. From Upper Bavaria Allgaeu up to up to 100 liters of rain per square meter may fall, said the meteorologist Dominik Jung of "Wetter.net" with. Streams and small rivers is expected to flood again, but with dramatic water levels as last week still not.

Updated: Monday, 10 June, 2013 at 04:00 UTC
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Budapest's embrace of the Danube, which normally bisects Budapest as a gently rolling swath of silver, turned threatening on Sunday when the river spilled over its banks and claimed the Hungarian capital as the latest victim of record floods in central and Eastern Europe. An unusually wet spring has swollen the Danube, the Elbe and several of their tributaries across Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany and Hungary, forcing tens of thousands of people to leave their homes, disrupting rail and road traffic, and causing damage that preliminary estimates have predicted will reach several billion euros. The authorities in Budapest had declared a state of emergency last Tuesday, anticipating that water level would reach record highs in the north of the country. The Danube was expected to peak at 8.95 metres Sunday night or Monday morning. Hungary deployed 7,000 soldiers supported by several thousand volunteers to reinforce dikes along the river. Hungarian state television showed Prime Minister Viktor Orban at work near the city of Esztergom, north of Budapest. "The flood is approaching the heart of the country, Budapest," Orban told reporters Sunday. "The next two days will be decisive, because the danger will affect the place where the largest number of people live and the most valuables are at risk."
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Updated: Monday, 10 June, 2013 at 03:59 UTC
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Thousands of people left their homes in eastern Germany as a dam burst on the swollen River Elbe and swathes of farmland were flooded in an attempt to spare towns, with meteorologists forecasting more rain. In Magdeburg, one of the oldest cities in eastern Germany and a regional capital, some 23,000 people were asked to evacuate as water levels in the Elbe rose to a record 7.48 metres, around 5m above normal and surpassing the level reached in devastating floods in 2002. "We helped yesterday to carry sandbags to secure the town. The mood is very depressed and frightened because many people have to leave their homes," said resident Liane Nagen. There have been at least a dozen deaths as a result of floods that have hit Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Poland and the Czech Republic over the past week. Officials said more than 8000 people were evacuated by bus from towns and villages around Aken, south of Magdeburg. Some took their pets or farm animals with them.

A dam at the confluence of the River Elbe and the River Saale south of Magdeburg burst despite attempts to stabilise it. A dike was also breached, and a crisis unit said the high waters were likely to put further pressure on dikes in coming days. Holger Stahlknecht, Interior Minister for the state of Saxony-Anhalt, where Magdeburg is located, said air and land surveillance would be stepped up in response to a threat from a previously unheard-of group calling itself the Germanophobic Flood Brigade to attack the sodden dikes. More than 36,000 people were evacuated across Saxony-Anhalt. In Brandenburg, a largely rural state that surrounds the capital Berlin, some residents were evacuated and flooding of uninhabited areas was planned.
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Extreme Weather in Czech Republic on Monday, 10 June, 2013 at 03:51 (03:51 AM) UTC.

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Torrential rains have caused local flash floods on some streams in central and northern Bohemia today, bringing ping pong ball size hail and inundating houses, cellars, gardens and garages, local police and firefighters have told CTK. Firefighters were called in to intervene in dozens of cases. In Prague, also hit by a thunderstorm, firefighters were called to tackle about 30 cases of uprooted trees and flooded cellars and garages, Pavlina Adamcova, Prague firemen´s spokeswoman, told CTK. In Rozmital pod Tremsinem, central Bohemia, the roof of a barn collapsed, but no one was fortunately inside, Lenka Kostkova, from the central Bohemian firefighter unit, said. The towns of Neratovice and Libis reportedly incurred material damage as a result of a storm with hailstones of a ping pong ball size. Problems also arose in Kralupy nad Vltavou and Melnik, two towns that were severely hit by flooding earlier this week, said central Bohemian police spokeswoman Sona Budska.

The centre of the Jemniky village has been inundated by an overflowing pond, Kostkova said. Her north Bohemian counterpart Lukas Marvan said most of the rain water has rushed to towns and villages from fields. In the town of Lubenec, the dam of a local pond threatens to collapse. People living in the endangered area below the dam must be evacuated, Lubenec mayor Bohumil Peterka said. The rain has made some local roads and railway tracks impassable. Since Friday, meteorologists have forecast thunderstorms and torrential rains in the Czech Republic in the days to come. The flood danger is extreme all over the country, they say. The danger is threatening now that Bohemia, the western part of the country, is removing the aftermath of the disastrous flooding that afflicted it in the past week. Meteorologists say the danger of new local floods is high also because the soil has been waterlogged and cannot absorb water any more.
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Updated: Monday, 10 June, 2013 at 04:06 UTC
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German authorities have urged more than 15,000 people to evacuate the eastern city of Magdeburg has flood levels reached record levels. Meanwhile, people in Budapest are bracing as the surging Danube approaches. The water level of the Elbe river in Magdeburg Sunday reached nearly 7.4 meters (24 feet), up from the normal level of two meters. The peak level was 70 centimeters above that reached during the last catastrophic floods in 2002, when the river's maximum was 6.72 meters. "We hope that the dikes will withstand the pressure over the coming days, but we can't be 100 percent sure," said fire service spokesman Andreas Hamann, who is one of 1,200 emergency staff working in the area. Flooding in Germany and across central Europe has caused billions of euros of damage and killed at least 18 people. The evacuations in Magdeburg were described as a precaution, but a city spokesman said "people really are supposed to leave" when confronted with danger. A total of 23,000 have been asked to evacuate the city this weekend.
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10.32 Clock: Rain can increase Schwarze Elster


In the upper and middle reaches of the river Schwarze Elster after rainfall is a slight increase register reports the "Central German newspaper". To what extent the situation in the flooded areas is further exacerbated, but is not yet clear.


10.25 Clock: Notdeich in Brandenburg


Brandenburg continues fighting with the floods. After breaking a Elbdeichs in Tangermünde in Saxony-Anhalt, a three and a half kilometers long Notdeich was built on a county road in Brandenburg from the morning. It is designed to protect the western Havel country before the advancing water, said the Interior Ministry. The road is a key point for the defense of the propagating same.




10.13 Clock: Return to Bitterfeld


In Bitterfeld (Saxony-Anhalt), the residents are allowed back to their homes, reports the "Central German newspaper". A total of 10,000 people had to leave from the eastern part of the city and the place Friedersdorf their homes. Workers and the army, it was able to close a leak in a dike along the lake Goitzsche.

11.15 Clock: flood after heavy rain in Thuringia


Thunderstorms and heavy rain have again led to over-irrigation of southern Thuringia roads, especially in Sonneberg and Steinach. There, the water masses oppressed partially manhole cover upwards. A supermarket in Sonneberg was flooded and had to be pumped out.


10.53 Clock: diversions in rail chaos


The record flooding in eastern Germany has greatly disturbed beginning of the week the railway. Because of a dam failure at Schoenhausen in Saxony-Anhalt to the nearby Elbe railway bridge had to be closed, as the German railway announced. Rail passengers must be set up to hours of delays. More chaos for train and how the trains are currently being redirected, click here .

Yes,We have a century-flood. nearly all the east from south to north in Germany is under Water.You can watch it from outer space.

The damages wil cost about more than ten thousand billions.

Danger is imminent.More breaks in dikes could happen, but people,fireworker and military are fighting against.Since a week they try to defence the water by sandbags.....hundreds, nay billions of sandbags.

WOW!!!

Take care over there!

for standing strong, against the water.

Austria flooding??? Will the kangaroos be okay????

there are no kangaroos in austria....only in the zoo ;)

At Least 21 Killed by Floods in Central Europe

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13.33 Clock:
The Russian city of Ulyanovsk on the Volga River has damaged by flooding locations in Germany offered help. "We would be delighted if we could make our summer camp as children from needy areas available," said Mayor Marina Bespalowa. The town about 700 kilometers east of Moscow sympathize with the affected communities. Ulyanovsk is the birthplace of revolutionary leader Lenin.



13.09 Clock:
The inhabitants of the threatened Elbe flood Mühlberg can return to their homes. The evacuation of the city is canceled in the afternoon, said the district administration. On the bus shelters are provided for the return. The alarm bell in the city remains. About 80 percent of the approximately 4230 residents had left their homes for the weekend.



12.55 Clock:
In the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld, the flood situation is more critical to dam failures. Particularly affected is currently Aken. The city is almost completely surrounded by water, said a spokesman of the crisis team. About 10,000 people had to leave their homes.


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i live in germany. we should a fucking flood be? i see no floods at all. just in the north of germany they had in 2 or 3 cities a little flood on streets so cars couldn´t drive, but there are really no floods... just for 3 days or so in 2 or 3 cities a little flood but that was 2 weeks ago... germany is dry like the desert from the hot summer weather... wish it would rain again... everything is so dry here in germany...

14.15 Clock: Record of 1855 wobbles


The situation in Lauenburg: At noon was measured at the level Hohnstorf a level of 9.30 meters. Which is already higher than that of the so-century floods 2006 (9.12 meters) and 2011 (9.22 meters). And there's no end in sight: The peak is expected for Tuesday with 10.15 meters - a new record. Highest ever measured water level in Hohnstorf were previously 9.88 meters on 20 März 1855.