Poland hit by floods after days of rain

Three days of heavy rain have wreaked havoc in south part of Poland, local media reported on Monday. Pawel Fratczak,spokesman of National Headquarters of the State Fire Service, said that there are 35 locations registered water levels above normal standards, while in 51 locations surging water had exceeded the alert level. Lower Silesia, located mostly in the basin of the middle Oder River, has the worst situation. Jaroslaw Wojciechowski, chief of Lower Silesia's Crisis Management Department, announced that households that suffered damage will receive aid up to 6000 zloty (about 1,845 U.S. dollars) per family.