In Glucholazy, in Poland’s southwestern Opole area, firefighters piled up sandbags as residents had been evacuated.
An analogous effort is going down in Krakow, Poland’s second largest metropolis, with residents supplied sandbags for flood safety.
Glucholazy resident Piotr Jakubiec mentioned he had ready sandbags and pumps to divert the water however that it was “unattainable to foretell what is going on to occur”.
“That is the second time in my life that I’ve seen such a phenomenon. It is a nightmare for the individuals who reside right here,” he mentioned.
One other resident, Zofia Owsiaka, mentioned everybody within the city was “scared” and there appeared to be “no hope of the rain stopping”.
Within the metropolis of Wroclaw 1000’s of residents had to make use of the staircases of high-rise blocks as a result of lifts had been shut as a flood security precaution, native media reported.