{"id":133740,"date":"2024-09-16T07:58:21","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T04:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/catastrophe-of-epic-proportions-six-drown-in-europe-amid-heavy-floods\/"},"modified":"2024-09-16T07:58:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T04:58:21","slug":"catastrophe-of-epic-proportions-six-drown-in-europe-amid-heavy-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/catastrophe-of-epic-proportions-six-drown-in-europe-amid-heavy-floods\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Catastrophe of epic proportions\u2019: six drown in Europe amid heavy floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133740\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Seven 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.<\/p>\n<p>Austria\u2019s 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 \u2013 an exceptional situation for mid-September, which saw temperatures of up to 30C (86F) last week. Rail services were suspended in the country\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Poland\u2019s prime minister, Donald Tusk, said one person in the K\u0142odzko region had drowned. Tusk was travelling through the south-west of the country, which has been hit hardest by the floods. About 1,600 people have been evacuated in K\u0142odzko, and Polish authorities have called in the army to support firefighters on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe situation is very dramatic,\u201d Tusk said on Sunday after a meeting in K\u0142odzko, which was partly under water as the local river rose to 6.7 metres on Sunday morning \u2013 well above the alarm level of 2.4 metres \u2013 before receding slightly. That surpassed a record set during heavy flooding in 1997, which partly damaged the town and claimed 56 lives.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Polish authorities shut the Go\u0142kowice border crossing with the Czech Republic after a river flooded its banks, as well as closing several roads and halting trains on the line linking the towns of Prudnik and Nysa. In the nearby village of G\u0142ucho\u0142azy, Zofia Owsiaka watched with fear as the fast-flowing waters of the swollen Bia\u0142a river surged past. \u201cWater is the most powerful force of nature. Everyone is scared,\u201d said Owsiaka, 65.<\/p>\n<p>In Budapest, officials raised forecasts for the Danube to rise in the second half of this week to above 8.5m, nearing a record 8.91m seen in 2013, as rain continued in Hungary, Slovakia and Austria. \u201cAccording to forecasts, one of the biggest floods of the past years is approaching Budapest but we are prepared to tackle it,\u201d said Budapest\u2019s mayor, Gergely Kar\u00e1csony. Meanwhile, police in the Czech Republic said four people were missing on Sunday. Three had been in a car that was swept into a river in the north-eastern town of Lipov\u00e1-l\u00e1zne, while another man was missing after being swept away by floods in the south-east.<\/p>\n<p>A dam in the south of the country burst its banks, flooding towns and villages downstream. \u201cWhat you see here is worse than in 1997 and I don\u2019t know what will happen because my house is under water and I don\u2019t know if I will even return to it,\u201d said Pavel Bily, a resident of Lipov\u00e1-l\u00e1zne. In a message on X, Czech police urged people to heed evacuation warnings, adding: \u201cPolice and firefighters know what they\u2019re doing and why they\u2019re doing it. The situation is changing quickly and we can\u2019t be everywhere immediately. Within a few moments, the only way out could be by helicopter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Five people have died in floods in south-east Romania over the past two days. In the worst-affected region, Galati in the south-east, 5,000 homes were damaged. Romania\u2019s president, Klaus Iohannis, said: \u201cWe are again facing the effects of climate change, which are increasingly present on the European continent, with dramatic consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of people have been rescued across 19 parts of the country, emergency services said, releasing a video of flooded homes in a village by the Danube river. \u201cThis is a catastrophe of epic proportions,\u201d said Emil Dragomir, the mayor of Slobozia Conachi, a village in Galati where 700 homes had reportedly been flooded. Slovakia has declared a state of emergency in the capital, Bratislava. Heavy rains are expected to continue until at least Monday in the Czech Republic and Poland.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/15\/catastrophe-of-epic-proportions-six-drown-in-europe-amid-heavy-floods-storm-boris-poland-austria-slovakia-hungary\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/catastrophe-of-epic-proportions-six-drown-in-europe-amid-heavy-floods\/\">\u2018Catastrophe of epic proportions\u2019: six drown in Europe amid heavy floods<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[575,696,10954],"class_list":["post-133740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-europe","tag-floods"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}