 
Residents of several regions of Poland and the Czech Republic on Monday had to evacuate their homes as central Europe began to recover from the worst flooding in over 20 years, which has caused widespread damage and a rising death toll.
torrential rains that started last week have severely affected border areas between Poland and the Czech Republic this weekend. Rising waters have forced bridges and people to be on the run, with several homes damaged and vehicles wrecked.
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At least 17 people have died in the worst flooding the region has experienced in centuries, according to reports from Romania to Poland.
The mayor of Nysa, a city with over 40,000 inhabitants in southern Poland, warned all residents to evacuate immediately on Monday afternoon after the floodbank breached next to it.
Industrial and residential areas were badly affected.
A broken dam across the confluence of the Odra River and the Opava River caused flooding throughout the northeastern Czech city of Ostrava.
While in the Czech town of Litovel, which remained under up to one meter (3.2 feet) of water covering around 70 percent of the region, residents described a “scary and fast” rise in water levels throughout the weekend.
Government Response
Poland’s government has declared a state of natural disaster and allocated 1 billion zlotys, or some $260 million, aimed at helping those hit by the floods.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk said he would talk to leaders of other countries affected by flooding and planned to ask for financial help through the EU.
The Czech town of Jesenik, at the border that was deluged on Sunday, began its cleanup efforts when the waters receded to uncover damaged vehicles and debris littered across the streets.
In eastern Romania, where many villages and towns were submerged over the weekend, Emil Dragomir, the mayor of Slobozia Conachi, said that some residents were left with only the clothes they were wearing.
At least 19 are confirmed killed in the flooding caused by Storm Boris across Central and Eastern Europe, as many countries were bracing themselves for more torrential rain.
Rivers continued to spill over their banks on Tuesday in the Czech Republic, while Austria, Slovakia and Hungary were seeing rising waters in the River Danube. Authorities said that this was the worst flooding the region had ever experienced in at least two decades.
The Czech Republic and Poland were worst hit on the border side at the weekend, with bursting waters that led to collapsed bridges and cars and houses damaged.
At least seven people are now reported to have lost their lives in Romania, as waters recede there since the weekend. Four have been declared dead in Poland, another five in Austria, and three in the Czech Republic. Dozens are understood to be missing.
Europe flood,The Czech police reported that one woman died from drowning in the northeast of the country near the border with Poland. Seven other people remained missing Monday, up from four a day earlier.
An 81-year-old woman was found dead in her flooded house in Austria on Tuesday, raising the country’s death toll. Two older men, aged 70 and 80, were discovered drowned in their houses in the Lower Austria region near Vienna. A third firefighter died on Sunday. The cause of death for one of the victims is unknown.
On Tuesday, the city of Wroclaw, in Poland, with a population of 600,000, prepared for the Oder river to peak. The waters were expected to hit their highest Europe flood on Wednesday.
National fire chief Mariusz Feltynowski, speaking in Warsaw, said Prime Minister Donald Tusk met with him and others in the city on Tuesday to receive reports on overnight efforts to seal the embankment in the nearby town of Nysa, where military helicopters joined the operation to drop sandbags on Sunday Europe flood.
The following day, the hospital had to be evacuated. Pregnant women and elderly people were taken away in rafts.
Several Polish cities, including Warsaw, have appealed for food donations for the flood survivors.
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