Central Europe Gets Five Times September's Normal Rainfall In Four Days; More Rain Through Monday

As swollen rivers continued to rise, volunteers and emergency workers in towns and cities across a swathe of central Europe were reinforcing defences against floods that have killed at least 21 people in four countries.

Storm Boris has dumped up to five times the average September rainfall on parts of Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia in four days, submerging entire neighbourhoods and forcing hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate.

Seven people have died in Romania, six in Poland, five in Austria and three in the Czech Republic, officials said on Tuesday, with several missing. The rain was easing in some areas but water levels in others were not expected to peak for several days.

The Danube River had peaked in Slovakia, the environment minister, Tomáš Taraba, said, leaving parts of Bratislava’s old town flooded. It was still rising in Hungary, including by about a metre every 24 hours in Budapest. Mobile dams were in place at the historical towns of Visegrád and Szentendre, north of Budapest.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/17/central-europe-flooding-rivers-storm-boris