Ten Romanian Counties Affected By Recent Floods, Storms

The ten affected counties, located in northern, central and northwestern Romania, saw damaged buildings, roads, bridges, railroad segments, households and submerged farmland areas.

Local emergency committees and volunteer emergency services rallied 530 firefighters and 160 volunteers, who took part in damage control efforts from Monday morning until Tuesday morning.

Local authorities in northwestern Bihor county removed 280 villagers from their homes, faced with the impending overflow of a local river. Over 16 hectares of farmland and 500 meters of a county road were submerged in the flood.

In northwestern county of Cluj, authorities rescued five people from the flood, including three children. A sixth victim was carried away by the stream, and an 84-year old woman died Tuesday after drowning in her flooded yard. The county also saw the flooding of over 300 households and some 200 hectares of farmland. At least nine bridges were damaged or destroyed and two villages were temporarily cut off from the main road.

Hundreds of households, basements, company headquarters, streets and public institutions were flooded in the counties of Alba, Arad, Timis, Zalau, Suceava, Mehedinti, Neamt and Mures. Several towns in these counties reported fallen trees, which damaged cars and caused streets to be temporarily closed down.

Three trains were briefly stuck in northeastern Suceava county, due to the flooding of a 50-meter railroad segment. A southwestern customs in Mehedinti county was flooded, and alluvial deposits were reported on two national roads in northeastern Neamt county.

The extreme weather is expected to continnue, as Romania's hydrologists prolonged the code orange and code yellow alerts for river overflows until June 28. The alerts target the Danube and the rivers in twelve western, southwestern, central and northwestern counties.

Romanian meteorologists issued Tuesday a new code yellow alert for heavy rainfall, strong wind and hail, valid from Tuesday noon until Wednesday evening, for the eastern region of the country, the Danube Delta and all hill and mountain areas.

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