MICHAEL HOLMES, WORLD NEWS: Huge areas of Eastern Europe are battling flood waters caused by heavy rains and melting snow. Hungary, Romania and the Ukraine are witnessing some of their worst flooding in years. Ten deaths are already blamed on the high waters. CNN's Mark Armstrong has more.</s>MARK ARMSTRONG, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This street in northern Romania has been under water for a week now. Rising waters across the region have ruined farm land, destroyed roads and bridges and brought homes crashing down. Heavy rains and melting snow combine to push streams and rivers way above usual levels. The Romanian government says damage estimates are already over $50 million, and it put over 2,000 soldiers on rescue duty. Across the border in Ukraine, a similar story.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): it's not the first year that we have floods like this, but this year there's so much more water.</s>ARMSTRONG: Boats are the only way to get around, and some people have had to welcome some unusual guests into their homes. In neighboring Hungary, a flood alert is in force along 130 kilometer stretch of the Tisza and Bodrog Rivers, where residents are working around the clock to reinforce flood barriers and save what they can.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): The water rose by 37 centimeters since yesterday morning. We can hardly bear it. We work day and night. We are building this damn for the third time. We have worked throughout the night in shifts.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): It is over there where all the water was rushing in last night and flooded the yard. It was scary. The water now flows in there and flows out over there.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): The mayor's office is trying to help out. The people there gave me these trousers and helped me pack up my belongings. But now I've come back to try to salvage anything I've left behind.</s>ARMSTRONG: The Hungarian government has declared a state of emergency and put the armed forces on alert, and people downstream of the floods are now preparing for the worst. Mark Armstrong, CNN.
Severe Flooding In Eastern European Countries