News Mania Desk/ Piyal Chatterjee / 15th September 2024
In Central and Eastern Europe, emergency services are strengthening flood defenses in response to heavy rains that swelled rivers and destroyed hundreds of homes.
Four persons perished in floods in the southeast district of Galati, Romania, as a result of Storm Boris.
According to Czech electricity utility CEZ, 51,000 households in the country’s northern regions have experienced power interruptions and evacuations as a result of flooding. Prague, the nation’s capital, now has flood barriers. Following a river’s bank collapse, Poland also had to evacuate a portion of the town of Glucholazy, which is close to the Czech border.
“We are again facing the effects of climate change, which are increasingly present on the European continent, with dramatic consequences,” Romanian President Klaus Iohannis said on Saturday.
Firefighters stacked sandbags while inhabitants in Glucholazy, in the southwest Opole region of Poland as residents were evacuated.
Residents of Krakow, the second-largest city in Poland, are being provided sandbags as a flood protection measure as part of a similar initiative.
Piotr Jakubiec, a resident of Glucholazy, stated that although he had ready sandbags and pumps to deflect the water, it was “impossible to predict what’s going to happen”.
On Saturday, a dam broke in the South Bohemia region of the Czech Republic. Petr Hladik, the environment minister, advised residents in the hardest-hit districts to get ready to evacuate. According to Hladik, there is a higher chance of flash floods because the ground is wet and precipitation is remaining on the surface. The ministry stated that rain is predicted in the Czech Republic through Tuesday.
According to Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala, the nation was ready for “a tough weekend”. Sandbag-built safety walls and metal barricades have been erected by the authorities.
This weekend’s football games in the top two leagues in the nation were postponed.
