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 ...

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 ...