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00:00They need to act fast. These residents in south-west Poland are rushing to block a fierce
00:06flow of water from entering their homes by lining up sandbags. Unusually strong rainfall
00:11and high winds have caused the nearby Biala River to surge as Storm Boris batters its
00:17way through Eastern Europe.
00:19It's disrupting other countries like Romania, particularly in the east, where hundreds of
00:24people have been rescued from villages like this one where water levels rose up to two
00:29metres flooding houses.
00:32I tried to save a maximum of stuff in my house, but it was all lost as the water came too
00:39quickly.
00:43Storm Boris has also raged through the Czech Republic, where almost 50,000 homes were left
00:49without electricity on Saturday as river waters reached dangerously high levels, prompting
00:55the evacuation of hundreds.
00:58We were ordered to evacuate, so we don't want to complicate things like getting stuck and
01:04then mobilising someone who could be more useful somewhere else, rescuing people or
01:09something like that.
01:13Austria, Slovakia and Hungary are also battling the storm, as Austria suspended its rail services
01:19in the east due to a risk of river flooding and Slovakia declared a state of emergency
01:23in its capital, with authorities fearing that such extreme weather conditions are the consequences
01:29of climate change and are becoming more frequent on the European continent.