Floods Inundate Central Europe

[longknife]

AP, Jun 02, 2013

Authorities in parts of central Europe issued disaster warnings and scrambled to reinforce flood defenses Sunday as rivers swelled by days of heavy rain threatened to burst their banks.

Several people have died or are missing in the floods in Germany, the Czech Republic and Switzerland since Thursday. Some residents also have been evacuated from flooding in southwestern Poland.

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We have tornadoes in the Heartland, snow in the northeast, heat in the west – so we hear nothing about this here in the USA.

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Very scary, I'm keeping these people in my prayers. - Jeri

 

[Bleipriester]

Central Europe. Congrats, CBN, you managed successfully not to mention the word Germany.


By the way: The picture in the article shows Passau.

Germany´s worst flood since 500 years!

 

[freedombecki]

(CNN) -- Soldiers dropped huge sandbags from army helicopters Tuesday as part of efforts to stem devastating flooding in northern Germany after the swollen Elbe River breached flood defenses.
A sea of muddy brown water has flowed through two broken dikes in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, forcing the evacuation of thousands of people from their homes.

Flood Misery as surging Elbe breaches defenses in Germany

Our thoughts and prayers with those who have been evacuated from their homes and that the 8-meter waters don't push through the dikes they built of sandbags.