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  2. 2013 European floods - Wikipedia

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    Flooding in Budapest, Hungary on 5 June 2013 The historic center of Passau, where the Danube , Inn and Ilz converge, was underwater on 1 June 2013, [ 19 ] with the water levels reaching 12.85 m (42.2 ft), overflowing the highest recorded historic flood level.

  3. 2024 Central European floods - Wikipedia

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    The Little Danube in Esztergom, on 20 September at the Bottyán Bridge. As of 17 September, 500 kilometres (310 mi) of the Danube is under flood warnings in preparation due to rising waters. In Budapest, the city government handed out 1 million sandbags to citizens. Train services between Budapest and Vienna were cancelled. [66]

  4. 2009 European floods - Wikipedia

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    In Komárom-Esztergom County, the first flood warning level was called. The Leitha in Hungarian territory was not affected. On 26 June a cautious all-clear was announced for the Danube between Esztergom and Budapest because the water levels remained lower than had been feared. The peak was expected on the night of 27 June into the 28th and was ...

  5. Factbox-Central Europe experiencing worst floods in at least ...

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    Central Europe is experiencing the worst floods in at least two decades, with a trail of destruction from Romania to Poland and and the deaths of at least 23 people so far. * Four provinces in ...

  6. Budapest Airport terminal briefly shut due to hot isotope ...

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    The terminal was shut between 7.30 p.m. (1730 GMT) and about 10.30 p.m. and eight incoming and eight outgoing flights were affected, Budapest Airport spokesman Laszlo Kurucz told Reuters.

  7. Budapest and Poland's Wroclaw reinforce their river banks ...

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    Hungary's government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán deployed soldiers to reinforce barriers along the Danube, and thousands of volunteers assisted in filling sandbags in dozens of riverside settlements. In Budapest, authorities closed the city’s lower quays, which are expected to be breached by rising waters later in the day.

  8. 2006 European floods - Wikipedia

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    The Danube river was at its peak 865 cm (28 ft 4 in) high in Budapest, Hungary, higher than the previous record of 848 cm in 2002. During the floods, approximately 11,000 buildings were in danger of flood damage, 32,000 people were threatened by the water, and 1.72 square kilometres (475 acres) of land were actually under water.

  9. Hydrology of Hungary - Wikipedia

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    Both the Danube and the Tisza have two regular floods each year, the early spring "icy flood" and the early summer "green flood". The "icy flood" is the result of the thaw in the mountains surrounding the Carpathian Basin, when the rivers in the plain are usually still frozen. Before the river flows were controlled, the piled-up ice sheets of ...