Power outages complicating evacuation efforts

Around 118,000 households in the Czech Republic were without electricity on Monday due to the floods and strong winds. This is down slightly from the reported 135,000 power outages on Sunday evening. Although power companies are working to restore supplies as fast as possible, fresh outages have been reported in the course of the day due to more damaged power lines. In some places this has complicated evacuation efforts and communication with the public. The worst situation remains in the Moravia-Silesia Region, where 73,000 households are without power, and in the Olomouc Region, with 29,000 households without power.