Europe hit by devastating floods
Permalink | August 26th, 2005
Devestating floods have hit many countries throughout Europe including Austria, Romania, Switzerland and Germany.
In the Swiss capital Bern helicopters have been used to pluck people from rooftops and residents are braced for more rescues amid rising water levels.
Elsewhere in Europe, people face a massive clean-up task as they return to flood-damaged homes.
Forecasters warn there is still rain ahead, but it has eased in many places.
BBC weather expert John Hammond predicts “more rain at the end of the week, but nothing on the scale of what we have seen.”
