STORM – The phenomenon is devastating. At least one person has drowned in Poland and four others are missing in the neighboring Czech Republic, which is suffering from torrential rains and rising rivers caused by storm “Boris,” authorities in both countries announced on Sunday, September 15.
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As you can see in the video at the top of the articlethe storm is affecting the whole of Central and Eastern Europe, causing damage and flooding in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Romania. It has already caused the death of four people on Saturday 14 September in the south-east of Romania. As well as that of a firefighter in Austria.
Thousands of people have been evacuated and operations continue Sunday in Poland and the Czech Republic, where hundreds of thousands of homes are without electricity.
Thousands of people evacuated
“We have the first confirmed drowning death in the Klodzko region”on the Polish-Czech border, said Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who has been traveling through the southwest of the country, the worst hit by the floods, since Saturday.
In the Czech Republic, police reported four people missing: three from a car swept into a river in the northeastern town of Lipova-Lazne and a man swept away by a flooded stream in the southeast.
The situation is particularly serious in the north-east of the country, where a large part of the town of Opava has been evacuated due to the overflowing of the river of the same name. In the south of the Czech Republic, a dam has overflowed and the water has flooded towns and villages downstream.
In southwestern Poland, floodwaters overflowed the dikes in the towns of Glucholazy and Ladek Zdroj. Some 1,600 people had to be evacuated in the Klodzko region. Polish authorities called in the army to support firefighters on the scene.
Heavy rains started early on Friday 13th and are expected to last at least until Monday 16th September in the Czech Republic and Poland.
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