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Czechs Snowed Under, Slovaks Fear Floods


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Even in Prague, the usually almost snow-free Czech capital that got pummelled by a mighty snowstorm and is now under more than 20 inches of snow. Prague’s suburbia and some parts of the country have had the highest snow falls in 30 years, and the accumulation is helped by the snow sticking and not melting.

In Slovakia, some 300 kilometers southeast of Prague, snow is scarce even in the hilly parts of the country. But rain downpours have raised the specter of floods, namely in the Danube river valley, the home to Bratislava, the Slovak capital.

So while the Czechs are digging trains tracks out of massive snow layers the Slovak weather office has issued flood alerts (level 1 out 3) for several smaller rivers in southern and central Slovakia. More on this in Slovak here.

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