Hungary is bolstering its flood defences as it prepares to become the latest country in Central Europe to be hit by torrential rain. At least 16 people have died in flooding from Romania to Poland. The damage has left thousands homeless and more bad weather is on the way.
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00:00Storm Boris has moved on, but it's left devastation in its wake.
00:08Picturesque towns and villages across Central Europe inundated, roads and rail lines cut
00:14off and tens of thousands of people evacuated.
00:19The border region between Poland and the Czech Republic has been worst affected.
00:24Most of the Czech town of Litovel is underwater.
00:27I was just very, very afraid.
00:30I saw a once-in-a-century flood.
00:3344,000 people from Nysa in Poland are the latest to be evacuated, staff at the local
00:39hospital racing against time to move patients.
00:44Further west in Lasek Drój, a dam burst, sending a torrent of water through the town.
00:51The water was incredible.
00:52It was Armageddon.
00:55The flooding's now receded, but it's left a mess.
00:59Poland's government has declared a natural disaster, unlocking millions of dollars' worth
01:03of emergency funding.
01:06The losses are unimaginable for the city.
01:09The town doesn't have the funds to repair it.
01:11It looks like an apocalypse.
01:14And the flooding continues to spread.
01:16Hungary's Danube River communities have been warned that they are at risk next.
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