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Central Europe braced for worst flooding in years

Sandbags are being prepared in Austria, Czech reservoirs emptied, and flash floods expected in Poland.

At least this time it is taken more seriously than in 2002.

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So will this be the fifth "once in a century" flooding since the beginning of this century?

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- I recently listened to a podcast about food prevention, and one mayor went on record saying they don't want to build floodplains to alleviate flooding issues downriver because the last flood originated somewhere else.
  
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It took me a bit to find the live map so I'll just leave the link here for anyone interested. Unfortunately it doesn't zoom out more.

https://www.zamg.ac.at/cms/de/wetter/wetteranimation/aladin_animation.php

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- https://www.wxcharts.com/
  
  This may be better, you can set the cumulative precipitation so it gives better picture of the situation.
  
  This was posted 2 days ago on mastodon. The guy makes info graphics for CHMU (Czech meteorogical institute).
  
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  Nice, thanks! This does look a bit scarier.
  
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  Ohhh. This is great!! Thanks :)
  
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Anxious Dresden sounds

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- Yeah they asked to lower the level of Elbe, denied...
  
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Yesterday was published map of expected flooding. https://www.irozhlas.cz/zpravy-domov/povoden-voda-rozliv-zaplavy_2409132312_cib

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