Excerpted:<BR><BR>"I am fine, thank you for worrying. Unfortunately the city and also others in the country (like Cesky Krumlov, beautiful <BR>Renaissance city in the south) were hit badly. People are great, not panicking and helping each other and the rescuers. Charles<BR>Bridge is fine, but our oldest stone bridge in Pisek from 13th century is demadged. Fortunately, the barrier wall saved the Old <BR>Town although some of the buildings are partially under the water.<BR><BR>It's not fun but I am having some kind of optimism especially when looking how everything is run perfectly."<BR><BR>If anyone needs a personal tour guide for Prague, Sabina is great and inexpensive.<BR><BR>[email protected] <BR>

This great to hear - I sent Sabina a quick note but had not heard from her yet. I'm still going to Prague at the end of October (even more so now - so as to contribute to the economy)<BR><BR>The Danube is expected to crest in Budapest this weekend. Go to this live webcam and you can see how high the Danube is:<BR><BR>http://www.irisz.hu/webcam_hun.html

Any onsite posters in Budapest? Is the Danube staying inside its' banks in Hungary?<BR>

Suzi, that is still to see. The town is declared to be in emergency alert.

Some virtualtourist.com friends mentioned that they are sandbaggig around the Parliment - Margaret Island may be partially flooded - the roads along the Danube banks have been closed. <BR><BR>You can check the actual water level information on the following (Hungarian) page, unfortunately no pics: <BR><BR>http://www.vituki.hu/hydroinfo/vituki/arvizm.htm <BR><BR>Foly&oacute; means river