Latest on flooding in Dresden area
(1 Apr 2006) SHOTLIST 1. Wide shot of flooded Elbe river with temporary flood defences dike and water being pumped back into river 2. Emergency workers next to dyke, water being pumped back into river 3. Water lapping against flood defences 4. Various of residents and emergency workers laying sandbags against dyke 5. Wide shot of flooded river 6. Fire truck and hoses pumping water back into river 7. Various of mechanical digger moving earth 8. Man placing water proof cover onto dyke 9. SOUNDBITE (German): Gerold Mann, Mayor of Wildberg and Klipphausen: "This is an artificial dyke that we have built for the first time. We don't have any stabilisers, we just built it and we have the fear that it will not hold the water back. We fought all night long and we really hope that the dyke will stand." 10. Various of people loading sandbags onto mechanical digger 11. Wide shot of sandbags with people nearby 12. Local resident Carola Mueller hanging laundry in back garden 13. SOUNDBITE (German): Carola Mueller, local resident: "I personally am not panicking, absolutely not, because I know the water level will rise up to seven metres fifty and during the last floods, four years ago, we reached a level of nine metres forty so we had the water 20 centimetres inside our house and therefore I have no panic." 14. Wide shot of river and defences with water being pumped back 15. Various of emergency workers and residents building flood defences 16. Pan of flood defences STORYLINE Residents and emergency workers in the town of Wildberg, ten kilometres (six miles) from the German city of Dresden, were working Saturday to shore up flood defences as water levels in the Elbe river continued to rise. The level in the Elbe measured 7.28 metres (24 feet) at 0830 a.m. local time (0630GMT) and was rising at a rate of one centimetre per hour. Authorities estimate the water will reach a peak of 7.6 metres (25 feet) on Sunday. Officials believe the water level will remain at this height for about a week and the local mayor expressed concerns about whether the flood defences would hold. Residents in Wildberg appeared prepared for the worst. Carola Mueller, a local resident, said she was not panicking because she'd heard that the floods would not be as bad as those nearly four years ago. But the flooded river breached defences in Dresden on Saturday. Approximately 300 people have been evacuated, according to a spokesman for the city. Nineteen families in the stricken part of the city have refused to leave their homes, the spokesman said, and authorities were contemplating whether enact emergency measures that would force them to leave. keyword-floods Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: / ap_archive Facebook: / aparchives Instagram: / apnews You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
