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"Eight people have drowned in Austria, Poland and Romania and four others are
missing in the Czech Republic as Storm Boris continues to lash central and
eastern Europe, bringing torrential rain and floods that have forced the
evacuation of thousands of people from their homes.
Swathes of Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia have been
battered by high winds and unusually fierce rains since Thursday.
Austria’s vice-chancellor, Werner Kogler, said on Sunday that a firefighter had
died tackling flooding in Lower Austria, as authorities declared the province,
which surrounds the capital, Vienna, a disaster area.
Some areas of the Tirol were blanketed by up to a metre (3ft) of snow – an
exceptional situation for mid-September, which saw temperatures of up to 30C
(86F) last week.
Rail services were suspended in the country’s east early on Sunday and several
metro lines were shut down in Vienna, where the Wien River was threatening to
overflow its banks, according to the APA news agency.
Emergency services made nearly 5,000 interventions overnight in Lower Austria
where flooding had trapped many residents in their homes. Firefighters have
intervened about 150 times in Vienna since Friday to clear roads blocked by
storm debris and pump water from cellars, local media reported."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
