Poland braced for more floods

Thousands of workers scrambled to reinforce dykes with sandbags and evacuate villages ahead of a 65-mile-long flood wave coursing down Poland’s largest river today after a week of torrential rains.

The surge moving north in the Vistula River threatened dozens of villages in central Poland after a week of storms and floods that killed at least 25 people and caused tens of millions of pounds in damage in the south.