The floods of the past weeks affecting Central and Eastern Europe are not over yet. MTI, a Hungarian news agency, reported that since May 15 temporary flood protection arrangements had to be implemented on 930 km of riverbanks, using 3.6 million sandbags and asking for more from EU civil protection mechanism. Hungary has been offered 2.12 million sandbags by Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands.
Bloggers took photos around their homes in areas affected by the natural disaster. One of them was Basesoft from Szikszó, a town in northern Hungary. He wrote in a comment (HUN) on his blog (HUN) that the photos did not show the worst situation since they didn't have the time to take photos then.
Read more: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2010/05/27/hungary-bloggers-photo-and-video-reports-on-the-flood/
