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AUTHOR: M.J.
The local floods brought by Cyclone Boris to the south of Poland and the east and north of the Czech Republic claimed the first life in Poland last night, and the Czech Republic is looking for four missing persons.
Thousands of citizens in both countries spent the night in evacuation in front of the flood before it reached their homes. "The first victim has been confirmed, here in the Klod district. 1,600 people were evacuated there, we expect that there will be many more evacuations. The situation in the Klodska basin is the most dramatic," said Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk this morning, who has been visiting the affected areas since the floods began.
In Silesia and the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in the south-west and south of Poland, in the area on the border with the Czech Republic, mountain streams and rivers due to heavy rainfall have turned into torrents and in some places the water is already over the embankment, while the retention and artificial lakes at the hydropower plant are also full. .
In the town of Gluholazi on the border with the Czech Republic, where the floods started and where the water broke through the protective embankments, mayor Pavel Šimkovič this morning appealed to everyone to evacuate to higher ground with the dramatic message "We are sinking".
On Saturday, the firefighters of the State Fire Guard, with the help of the army and the territorial defense, went to the field 6,400 times to strengthen embankments, remove fallen trees and branches that complicate the railway traffic, which is interrupted on 40 tracks, and, from midnight to Sunday morning, in 2,300 interventions.
"The Klodska basin is in danger, where the water level of some rivers has risen dramatically and started to flood. In many places, the water level is stabilizing, and the peak of precipitation has passed. We are counting on stabilization," said Karol Kježkovski, spokesman for the Polish Fire Guard, to Polish private television Polsat.
Due to strong winds and floods, many citizens were left without electricity, and the mobile phone signal is also unavailable in some places.
"We made the decision to start using satellite communication via Starlink, but we should not hope that a connection will be established immediately everywhere," Prime Minister Tusk said this morning.
In the neighboring Czech Republic, the search for four missing people began yesterday, one man in the south of Moravia who was swept away by a swollen stream in front of his house, and three people disappeared after their car fell into the river.
260,000 people are without electricity due to stormy winds and floods in the Czech Republic, in 87 places, mainly in the Moravian-Silesian region in the east of the country, the water level has exceeded the third highest level of flood alert, while 118 places are at the first or second level.
