In less than an hour, the sand is gone. Just a few days ahead of the expected peak of the flooding, there's a mixture of panic and hope in Wroclaw. But many people are also just curious.

It passed the test by effectively flattening the Oder's giant flood wave as torrential rains inundated Central Europe this month. Mindful of the 1997 disaster, residents of Opole and Wroclaw ...

Other places are now bracing for the flood waves to hit them, including two central European gems: Budapest, the Hungarian capital on the Danube River, and Wroclaw, a city in southwestern Poland ...

Sandbags have been dropped from military helicopters to reinforce river embankments and evacuated residents as the worst flooding in years ... was also closed. In Wroclaw, firefighters and ...

"We are working around the clock… There are always people willing to help," said Marcin Janiszewski, spokesperson for Tarczynski Arena Wroclaw and coordinator of flood-related activities.

In Poland, the flood wave reached the city of Wroclaw on Thursday. According to the crisis management team, the water level is 6.31 metres, but the situation is beginning to stabilize. A water ...

It passed the test by effectively flattening the Oder’s giant flood wave as torrential rains inundated Central Europe this month. Mindful of the 1997 disaster, residents of Opole and Wroclaw ...