(14 Aug 2002)
Night shots:
1. Wide shot of sandbags in central square in Old City
2. Police with flashlights in square patrolling sandbags
3. Long shot down Vltava river with castle illuminated on hill
4. Close up of river water
5. Police walking through streets of Old Town
Day shots:
6. Helicopter flying over river, flood water high up side of Charles Bridge
7. Close up of helicopter
8. Helicopter flying over river
9. Wide of bridge over river
10. Close up of statue on edge of same bridge with water flowing past it
11. Wood floating on river
12. Boat club building deep in water where Vltava has burst banks
13. Long shot down river with swirling waters
14. Wide of military personnel on bank of river, water is nearly up to road level
15. Various of military unloading sandbags from trucks and making barrier by river
16. Various of police vehicles patrolling empty streets, UPSOUND (Czech) of loudspeaker calls for remaining people to evacuate
17. Pan across empty streets
18. Long shot down road with sandbag barrier
19. Long shot down of flood water covering part of road
20. Various of flooded part of road, with water at level of some street signs
21. Various of two men in a dinghy in flooded road, water covers some ground floor windows
22. Road junction submerged in water
23. People standing at edge of pavement, water in roads
24. Partially submerged shops, UPSOUND of siren on emergency vehicle
25. Men waiting by side of road
26. Water flooding from drain
27. Various of people walking through town in bathing suits carrying belongings
28. Flooded road junction
29. Various of man in canoe, passing shops with water half way up ground floor windows
30. Wide of high river level in Old Town
31. Close up of river water passing lamppost
32. Police watching river from bridge
33. Half submerged car
STORYLINE:
Police cordoned off Prague's Old Town and ordered residents to evacuate on Wednesday as emergency workers tried to save the historic district from flooding that has swamped parts of Europe and killed at least 89 people.
Cascading toward the tourist center of the capital, the engorged Vltava River punished the Czech Republic with the worst flooding since 1890.
Officials said at least nine people died after more than a week of heavy rainfall.
Hundreds of thousands of Czechs fled the onslaught of the Vltava and dozens of other rivers, searching for higher ground amid torrential rains that have soaked the continent for a week and a half.
About 70,000 inhabitants of the capital's 1 million people left their homes, city officials said.
Sirens wailed through deserted streets as the evacuation progressed, spurred on by water lapping up to within half a metre (1.5 feet) of the edge of the barriers. Helicopters surveyed the area overhead.
Prague municipal workers arrived at City Hall before dawn to save documents in offices in the river's path. Residents in the former Jewish quarter, the site of a centuries-old cemetery and several synagogues, were also ordered out.
Much of the capital remained without electricity, and at least three streets in the city's centre were accessible only by boat.
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