Flooding in Europe

Great Britain threatens the flood

Thousands of owners of houses have already been warned by the Ministry of Environment, that the flooding of their real estate is practically inevitable. In total, in England and Wales, 140 seats are declared high -risk zones.

The flood will be the result of heavy rains in the southeast of the country, which have not stopped for several days. The blurry roads and railway tracks became an obstacle to many British, who tried to get to work after the celebration of Christmas and New Year.

However, experts note, the current situation is significantly better than in October 2000, when Britain was experiencing the latest flood season so far. The authorities claim that since then they have strengthened about 70 kilometers of dams and protected about 25 thousand people from floods.

In Germany, a Maine who emerged from the shores floods the historical center of the city of Vertheim

In Germany, a Maine who came out of the shores floods the historical center of the city of Vertheim. According to the Carlsruhe meteorological center, a critical rise in water is also marked on the Rhine, Nekkara, Danube, Rura and Elbe.

In Thuringia, where the Zaala River and its tributaries began to come out of the shores, the highest, third, and the degree of flood alarm was declared on Friday.

Inhibitory rains, floods, ice and swept over Germany last night, the hurricane caused numerous traffic accidents almost throughout the Germany. In Baden-Württemberg, a spruce torn with a root fell on a car, as a result of which the 13-year-old teenager died, and his 55-year-old father was seriously injured.

In Schleswig-Holstein on Friday morning, a car rolled over on ice, as a result of which an 18-year-old driver died.

The Federal Republic of Germany’s railway controls reported that due to the trees that had fallen on the rails on many distances, accidents occurred. The traffic traffic was stopped here, since pine and spruce that fell on the rails caused the gathering of the composition.

In a number of federal lands of Germany, rivulets and streams emerged from the shores flooded the roads on which traffic was blocked.

From the evening of Thursday, on large rivers of Germany due to the dangerous rise in water, shipping was partially or completely stopped.

Flood in France has already begun

The weather in the early days of the New Year inhabitants of a number of northern regions of France presented unpleasant surprises. According to reports received today, the heavy rains in Picardia caused an increase in groundwater level and the exit of the UAZ River from their channel. Many communes along the river in the departments of EN and UAZ turned out to be flooded. Water continues to arrive. The flood peak is expected in the first days of the next week, but now many roads in the UAZ department are closed for traffic.

A similar picture is also observed in Nizhny Normandy, where most rivers came out of the coast. The departments of Calvados, Mansch and Orn were especially injured.

Plump winds knocked out many trees in the Department of Verkhny Rhine (Northeast region of Alzas). Firefighters, who, in France, in addition to extinguishing fires, carry out other rescue operations, about 300 times went to clear roads from blockages, in particular, on mountain ramps, and urgent elimination of the consequences of squall winds in the 80 communes of the Upper Rhine.

Inhibitory rains turned Hungarian vehicles into ice rinks

Rains ongoes ongoing for almost a day turned many highways of Budapest and other cities of Hungary into real ice rinks. The same can be said about the sidewalks in the mountainous "half" of the Hungarian capital - wake.

The police appealed to motorists to use public transport services and not to travel to their cars to the city.

All night, the entire park of the harvesting equipment of the Hungarian capital was actually involved in cleaning from the ice coverage. As an “anti -icing” in Hungary, large sand with salt is used. But if the city services were “passable” to make the plain pesht, then the mountainous Buda in the literal sense of the word sparkles with an icy surface.

Those who did not heed the calls of the police and still drove into the city by car are very at risk. Due to the vagaries of the weather, the number of accidents on the roads of Budapest increased sharply. Car traffic jams are constantly formed in the city.