Flood Death Toll Rises as Europe Counts Cost of Storm Boris
- Rainfall raises Danube flows to statistical 85-year high
- Poland, Czech Republic, Austria set aside funds for cleanup
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Floods ripped through central Europe killing at least 17 people, as governments across the region took emergency measures and prepared to spend hundreds of millions of euros on the cleanup.
Flows in the Danube — Europe’s second-longest river — were at levels statistically likely only once every 85 years, after Storm Boris dumped torrential rain on Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary. Red weather alerts remain in place, with thousands of people already evacuated over the weekend.