The flood situation in the Czech Republic is slowly calming down and there is no longer an extreme threat anywhere.  The worst situation is in southern Bohemia where the Rozmberk pond has started to overflow The water from this large pond is still flowing freely into the countryside municipalities are starting to assess the damage According to Moravia-Silesia Governor Josef Belica (ANO) the damage could run into tens of billions of crowns is also talking about billions of crowns in damages There are still tens of thousands of households without power water was expected to start flowing over the gates of the Brno dam power engineers eventually resolved a technical fault at the hydroelectric power station in the dam The water is unlikely to get through the sluice gates The situation in Ostrava is also calming down and work is beginning to address the consequences of the flooding The city is deploying bulk containers; collection yards will increase their capacity and extend their opening hours Ostrava is still without heat and hot water and it is not yet possible to say when supply from the flooded Trebovice power plant will be restored which was badly affected by the high water an important bridge on Ratiborska street faces demolition as it was so damaged by the high water In the Moravia-Silesia and Olomouc regions five sections of first-class roads and the motorway leading through Ostrava to the border with Poland remain impassable all roads are passable again after the floods There were 56,000 households without electricity in the country after noon yesterday Most of Bohumin in the Karvina district is among them due to a flooded power substation in the town of Pudlov The city has set up several centres where residents can recharge phones or power banks the town hall said that the backbone internet line to the district has snapped probably due to a landslide of waterlogged soil Internet problems were also addressed this morning by the regional office two elementary schools will remain closed on Wednesday schoolchildren will not return to their desks immediately Mayors in affected areas said there would be problems with the location of polling stations Hepatitis A vaccination is also being prepared in the flooded areas Work is underway to guarantee the supply of medicines and regional health stations are preparing to test wells The State Material Reserves Administration activated the KRIZKOM crisis information system yesterday morning through which flood-hit municipalities and regions can now request equipment from the state reserves The Czech Association of Insurance Companies said today that insured damage after the floods will reach CZK 17 billion About half of this damage is to households and the other half to businesses the August 2002 floods were the biggest catastrophe in the history of the Czech Republic following which they paid out CZK 36.7 billion the floods have caused more than CZK 200 million worth of property damage to the state forest management company Lesy CR The Czech Confederation of Industry and Transport wants to negotiate support from the government for the damaged companies or a programme to help with costs not covered by insurance at least CZK 95 million has been donated to collections organised by NGOs to help people affected by the floods More than half of this amount has been raised by People in Need The weather forecast for the next few days is positive across the country Flood conditions in the Czech Republic decreased yesterday; by 4pm there were flood stages in place at 137 places according to the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute The threat remains on the Dyje (Thaya) River at the Morava River from Olomouc and on the lower Elbe The Elbe is expected to peak in Usti nad Labem this afternoon “We expect peaks and more significant drops on the Luznice and Nezarka rivers during the night and on Wednesday,” the meteorologists said adding that the drops in levels will be gradual Extensive flooding has plagued the Czech Republic since Saturday with heavy rains hitting Moravia and Silesia in particular as well as the north-east and south of Bohemia the water has risen to a level described by meteorologists as extreme flooding The floods have so far claimed three lives Advertise with us Privacy Policy Brno Daily is a Czech media outlet for expats Our partners Your request has been blocked by our security system due to potential security concerns Please contact us for assistance Soldiers dropped sandbags from military helicopters to reinforce river embankments and evacuated residents as the worst flooding in years spread Tuesday to a broad swath of Central Europe Heavy flooding has affected a large part of the region in recent days There have been at least 16 deaths reported in the flooding which follow heavy rainfall across the region Other places are now bracing for the flood waves to hit them including two central European gems: Budapest a city in southwestern Poland on the Oder River its old town filled with architectural gems 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 which are expected to be breached by rising waters later in the day The lower half of the city's iconic Margaret Island was also closed firefighters and soldiers spent the night using sandbags to reinforce river embankments appealed for volunteers to fill sandbags on Tuesday morning "We and our animals will be extremely grateful for your help," the zoo said in its appeal The city said it expected the flood wave to peak there around Friday though some had predicted that would happen sooner Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk met with a crisis team early Tuesday and said there are contradictory forecasts from meteorologists Tusk's government has declared a state of natural disaster across the affected region of southern Poland residents spent the night fighting to save Nysa after the Nysa Klodzka River broke its banks the day before The town mayor Kordian Kolbiarz said 2,000 "women the elderly" came out to try to save their town from the rising waters forming a human chain that passed sandbags to the river bank "We simply … did everything we could," Kolbiarz wrote on Facebook "This chain of people fighting for our Nysa was incredible waters have been receding in the two hardest-hit The government approved the deployment of 2,000 troops to help with clean-up efforts The damage is expected to reach billions of euros The Czech government also scrambled to help local authorities organize regional elections on Friday and Saturday as several schools and other buildings serving as polling stations have been badly damaged a planned evacuation of some 1,000 in the town of Veseli nad Luznici could be postponed as the waters had not reached critical levels so far 20: A massive flood wave moving across Central Europe was threatening new areas and raising concerns among residents and leaders It also prompted European Union head Ursula von der Leyen to plan a visit to the region on Thursday Heavy rains also caused flooding and evacuation of some 1,000 residents in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna The death toll was rising in Central Europe as receding waters were revealing the huge scale of the destruction caused by exceptionally heavy rains that began a week ago Czech Interior Minister Vit Rakusan said the death toll had risen to five in the hard-hit northeast Czech Republic That brings the death toll so far to 24 in the region Authorities have also reported seven deaths each in Poland and Romania Authorities across the affected region have deployed their militaries In the two hardest-hit regions in the northeast Czech Republic troops joined firefighters and other emergency officials to help residents with clean-up and recovery efforts Army helicopters have been used to distribute humanitarian help while soldiers are building temporary bridges after many were destroyed in the flooding Some 400 people remain in evacuation centres in the regional capital of Ostrava and are not able yet to return home In the country's southwest near the border with Austria the water level of the Luznice River has reached an extreme level but the evacuation of 1,000 people in the town of Veseli nad Luznici was not necessary for the moment flood waters continued to rise on Thursday as authorities shut down roadways rail stations and ferries along the Danube River water spilled over the city’s lower quays and threatened to reach transport infrastructure like trams and metro lines homes and restaurants near the riverbanks were inundated as officials and volunteers continued to place sandbags to reinforce levees including members of Hungary’s water authority and military have been mobilized to assist in flood preparations Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in a news conference Thursday morning Inmates from prisons had also been mobilized to help fill sandbags The Danube rose nearly one meter (3.3 feet) in 24 hours and by Thursday morning stood at 771 centimetres approaching the 891-centimeter record set during major flooding in 2013 the high water reached the city of Wroclaw and a stretched-out wave was expected to take many hours Concerned by the scope of the destruction and the need for immediate aid Prime Minister Donald Tusk invited von der Leyen to Wroclaw to see the situation with her own eyes Government leaders from the Czech Republic Slovakia and Austria are also to be present about a thousand residents were evacuated in the northern region of Emilia-Romagna after it was hit by torrential rains and severe flooding overnight Phone : +977-1-4222921 Email : risingnepaldaily@gmail.com Acting Editor-in-Chief(Print) : Bhimsen Thapaliya