Swelling of the elbe violating another levee earlier Monday in its relentless march to the north sea, forcing the German authorities evacuated 10 village, and close the country one of the main railway lines.
Because of the surge from the elbe river on east German countryside, there are some relief, further upward river slid back in the capital of the state of Saxony - anhalt magdeburg, from record levels.
In the south, the Danube in Budapest, Hungary, reached a record high on Monday began to ease back on Sunday night. Officials said the escaped major damage in the city, prime minister viktor orban, victor said, soldiers and rescue workers will shift their focus farther south.
Undammed this spring has the elbe river, the Danube river and other rivers such as the vltava and saller 4 excessive, in central and southern Germany, the Czech republic, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary has caused widespread damage. At least 22 flood related deaths have been reported.
German city of magdeburg kill more than 16 feet (5 meters), higher than the normal water level, but at the weekend the elbe river down about a foot (30 cm) on Monday. More than 23000 residents have to leave their homes on Sunday. Officials said the city electric power substation is no longer in danger of water - it will cut off power supply, drainage pumps, to make things worse.
Further downstream in the west of the Philippines baker, Berlin, levee are destroyed overnight, prompted officials to evacuate of 10 villages in the region.
Germany's national railway, said it had to close he baker near a bridge connecting the Berlin, cologne, Frankfurt and Amsterdam used by train. Some trains rerouted to other Bridges in north and south, causing major delays, and the other was cancelled.
Working like crazy for the soldiers and volunteers, in the past week, in order to fill sandbags and strengthen flood defences across central Europe.
Even if all these efforts, "we should accept that we human beings should be modest, even in the 21st century, we do not fully control nature - this is the situation of a lesson," state of Saxony - anhalt interior minister, holger Stahlknecht, told ZDF television.
He said it was too early to analyze, if any, might have to do be better prepared for the flood.
In Budapest, the Danube river on Sunday night about a foot (31 cm), more than the previous record, peaked in 2006.
"Capital, flood peak," Mr Orban said, during a visit to northern region near the Danube river in Budapest.
The Danube river in Budapest expand significantly lower, reduce the threat of flood, though Mr Orban has said, in a few locations downstream flood control walls and other defensive measures are strengthened.
On Monday, river water levels fall across the Czech republic, while a thunderstorm caused some local flash floods during the night. , Martin Stovicek, national police chief said, after the country's death toll to 11 Susice XiNaZhen drowned in a river near Slovakia.
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