Heavy rainfall over Europe during the the past week has swollen many rivers past their flood stage,
wreaking havoc unseen in decades across Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, Slovakia,
Poland and the Czech Republic.
At least 18 people across the region have been killed,
and tens of thousands have been evacuated.
In Germany, the crest of the Elbe River is now approaching the North Sea,
as the swollen Danube River is surging toward the Hungarian capital of Budapest.
Collected here are images from the past several days of those affected by these historic floods,
even as meteorologists predict more rain over the coming weekend. [36 photos]
위의 영문서문을 대충의역하면...
"지난주 동안 유럽 전역에 최악의 호우로 수 많은 강들이불어 위험 수위를 넘어
수십 년간 없었던 혼란을 불러일으키고 있는데 독일에 걸쳐 오스트리아,
스위스, 헝가리, 슬로바키아, 폴란드, 체코 공화국. 지역에 걸쳐 적어도 18 명이 사망하고
수 만명이 대피했습니다. 독일에서는 불어오른Elbe강뚝이 무너져 점점 북해에 접근하고 있으며
불어오른 다뉴브강은 헝가리 수도인 부다페스트 쪽으로 파도처럼 밀려오고 있습니다.
여기모은 이미지들은 전례 없는 기록적인 홍수에 피해를 입은 지난 몇 일간의영상이며
기상청은 오는 주말에 더 많은 비가 예상된다고 합니다."(씨밀래)
The city hall of Grimma, Germany, surrounded by floodwater, on June 3, 2013. Flooding has spread across a large area of central Europe following heavy rainfall in recent days. Eastern and southern Germany are suffering under floods that in some cases are the worst in 400 years. Tens of thousands of Germans, Hungarians and Czechs were evacuated from their homes as soldiers raced to pile up sandbags to hold back rising waters in the region. (AP Photo/dpa, Jens Wolf)
A firefighter climbs up a flood barrier to check the nozzle of a hose squirting rising groundwater back out into the flooding Elbe River in the city center in Dresden, Germany, on June 6, 2013. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) #
A Red Cross member talks to residents from his boat in the flooded center of Passau, Germany, on June 3, 2013. Raging waters from three rivers have flooded large parts of the southeast German city following days of heavy rainfall in central Europe. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader) #
A statue in the floodwater of the Moson branch of River Danube in Gyor, 120 km west of Budapest, Hungary, on June 6, 2013. The River Danube is expected to peak on June 10 in Budapest, close to its highest level ever, 25 cm higher than the record levels of 2006. (AP Photo/Csaba Krizsan) #
Shipping containers, partly immersed in water at the flooded harbor in Riesa in the federal state of Saxony after the Elbe River broke through its banks, on June 5, 2013. (Reuters/Thomas Peter)#
The door of a flooded house in the village of Lounky, Czech Republic, on June 6, 2013. Tens of thousands of Germans, Hungarians and Czechs were evacuated from their homes on Wednesday as soldiers raced to pile up sandbags to hold back rising waters in the region's worst floods in a decade. (Reuters/David W Cerny)#
Members of the emergency services drive next to a barrier to protect the village of Stein-Krems in Lower Austria from the flooded Danube River, on June 4, 2013. (Reuters/Leonhard Foeger) #
Rescue forces from the THW (Technisches Hilfswerk) place big sandbags on a dam and a street which is flooded by the swollen Danube River near Fischerdorf, Germany, on June 6, 2013. (Joerg Koch/Getty Images)#
A resident named Sandra fetches groceries and other necessities with a rubber raft through a flooded street near the swollen Elbe River on June 7, 2013 in Elster, Germany. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)#
A young boy looks out from the back of an army truck that is evacuating people from the flooded village of Devin, in Bratislava, Slovakia, on June 5, 2013. (Reuters/Radovan Stoklasa)#
An oil sheen caused by flooded heating oil tanks from households, on the floodwater of the Danube River near the Bavarian city of Deggendorf, on June 7, 2013. (Reuters/Wolfgang Rattay)#
A church stands partially submerged in the floodwaters from the swollen Danube River in Marbach, some 90 km (56 mi) west of Vienna, Austria, on June 3, 2013. (Reuters/Heinz-Peter Bader)#
Workers clean the streets of the historical city of Passau, which was flooded by the swollen Danube River and the Inn river (above) on June 6, 2013. (Joerg Koch/Getty Images) #
Members of emergency services travel by boat along a flooded street in the center of the Austrian village of Emmersdorf, on June 3, 2013. (Reuters/Leonhard Foeger)#
A girl from the village of Mlekojedy stands with her dog in front of the flooded road to her home, near the city of Litomerice, Czech Republic, on June 5, 2013. (Reuters/Petr Josek)#
An aerial view shows buildings flooded by water from the River Danube near the Bavarian village of Deggendorf, on June 6, 2013. (Christof Stache/AFP/Getty Images)#
Residents are carried to their homes in the bucket of a front-loader, in the eastern Bavarian village of Niederalteich, on June 6, 2013. (Reuters/Wolfgang Rattay)#
Emergency crews pump water at a dam along the flooded Danube River near the village of Deggendorf, Germany, on June 6, 2013. (Christof Stache/AFP/Getty Images) #
Oil flows into floodwater from some of the houses in Fischerdorf, Germany, inundated by the swollen Danube River, on June 6, 2013. (Joerg Koch/Getty Images) #
A family canoes past vehicles stranded on the A3 autobahn after the swollen Danube River burst its banks in Deggendorf, Germany, on June 7, 2013. (Joerg Koch/Getty Images)#
