Central European nations are bracing for severe flooding, which is expected to impact the Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, Germany, Slovakia, and Hungary this weekend.
Residents have been urged to prepare for probable evacuations.
Some public activities scheduled for the weekend around the country have been cancelled at the request of authorities, including football matches in the top two leagues.
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Meteorologists say a low pressure system travelling from northern Italy was predicted to dump high levels of rainfalls in most parts of the Czech Republic, including the capital and border regions with Austria and Germany in the south and Poland in the north.
Central Europeans are especially wary because some experts have compared the weekend forecast to devastating floods in 1997 in the region, referred to by some as the flood of the…