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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.
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 ...
The Danube reached height of 970 centimeters on 17 September, at 2:30 a.m., [62] at 7:00 a.m. The body of a 73-year-old man was found in the flooded basement of a family home in Devín borough, [ 5 ] and the level of Danube reached 966 centimeters at 10 a.m. [ 62 ] On 18 September, the level of the Danube and Morava in Bratislava peaked between ...
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.
Several flood plains were underwater in the eastern Netherlands as rivers surged in recent days. In Hungary, the Danube spilled over its banks in Budapest and was expected to peak in the capital ...
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.
Concurrently with flooding in Germany in early June, rising river levels on the Danube River reached 6.86 meters on the morning of 4 June, causing it to burst its banks in Linz, submerging areas close to the river. All river traffic along the Danube in the Lower Austria area was halted. [3]
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 ...