After attending an emergency briefing in southwestern Poland, Donald Tusk reassured the public that the forecast was “not overly alarming” and that there was no reason to expect an earthquake of a scale sufficient to threaten the entire country.
Poland’s He said the territorial troops were on standby, and in one of the four southern provinces MalopolskaAbout two million sandbags were stockpiled, with another million remaining in Lower Silesia, the area around Wrocław.
“If there’s something that we can anticipate and something that we want to prepare for, it’s of course localized flooding or what we call a burst flood,” he added.
Thousands of high-rise apartment dwellers in Wroclaw were forced to take the stairs after elevators were shut down due to flooding concerns, according to local media.
The Polish Institute of Meteorology and Water Resources later extended the highest alert level from four southern provinces to the mouth of the Odra River in Szczecin, which flows into the Baltic Sea.
Austria According to the Austrian Federal Institute for Geosphere Research, it was the hottest August since records began.
Many areas are now warned of 10-20cm of rain in the coming days, with some places receiving well over 20cm, particularly in mountainous areas. The regions of Upper Austria, Lower Austria and Northern Oberstienmark.
