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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.
* The Polish defence ministry said more than 14,000 soldiers had been deployed to flood-hit regions. ... * The River Danube is expected to peak in Budapest late on Saturday with 846 cm, below its ...
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]
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.
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.
In the 1970s and 1980s the city dug a massive channel along the Danube to prevent it flooding, which has proven effective. The main source of flooding there this weekend was the usually tiny ...
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. [ 14 ]
The Danube has been mostly controlled since the 19th century. There is about 1,250 km 2 (480 sq mi) of flood-protected area along the banks of the Danube in Hungary, with about 1,123,000 km 3 (269,000 cu mi) of dykes. No stretch of land along the river is left open to the floods.