"It was really wild," says Thomas Hofbauer, a resident of Vienna, after heavy rain triggered flooding in the Austrian capital. "There were trees and trunks and all possible debris floating by," he adds, standing next to the Liesing river, which has now subsided in level. At least 17 people have died as Storm Boris lashes central Europe, with torrential rains bursting dams, knocking out power and cutting communities off. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES