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I'm lucky seeing as my house is built ontop of a hill, but a lot of the villages and towns around me have been hit pretty hard:
We've only been without power for ~16 hours for now
We've only been without power for ~16 hours for now
Damn this is awful, hopefully the raining will slow stop/not start again. The high death toll is harrowing.
To get an idea of how widespread the heavy rainfall was, here's a map of Germany. Everything in violet (and above) is basically "insane for 72 hours" territory and roughly equivalent with 1-4 (for the grey part) months of rain in most places.
For the Americans, 1 inch is about 25 mm, so 100 mm is a bit less than 4 inches.
Catastrophic amounts of rain, people literally dying, houses being destroyed or even completely wiped off the map.
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Like how tonedeaf do you have to be to reply to this thread like that?
I hope that it ends (or at least lightens up) soon. This is absolutely awful.
Californians: Lol SeNd SoMe To Us!1!
Like how tonedeaf do you have to be to reply to this thread like that?
I hope that it ends (or at least lightens up) soon. This is absolutely awful.
There were warnings that these were going to be a bad few days, but I think the intensity still surprised a lot of people. More than 40 dead is extremely harrowing.
Also, flooding usually happens at the end of winter, not in the middle of summer. If there is flooding in summer, it's usually on a very small scale (one town or city) due to thunderstorms, not due to widespread heavy rainfall across two states, like now.
Floods are somewhat regular, but nothing even close to this scale. It's a freak flood breaking all previously recorded highs by a huge margin.
Shit, my mom just arrived there yesterday to visit family. Guess I just have to wait for her to reach out and try not to worry too much…
It hasn't rained in Germany since yesterday night and we hope that there's no heavy rain tomorrow. The Mosel river is already going back, but it's crazy how it still rose quite a bit even after it stopped raining for almost a day, likely thanks to the stuff it carries and the side rivers that lead into it.
Death toll in Germany has risen to 58:
At least 58 people have died in parts of western Germany amid heavy rains and flooding, local police said on Thursday. Most of the deaths have been reported in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate.
The flooding has heavily impacted transport in the region, which lies near the borders to Belgium, Luxembourg, France and the Netherlands. Weather forecasters say more rain is expected in the coming days.
www.dw.com
At least 58 people have died in parts of western Germany amid heavy rains and flooding, local police said on Thursday. Most of the deaths have been reported in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate.
The flooding has heavily impacted transport in the region, which lies near the borders to Belgium, Luxembourg, France and the Netherlands. Weather forecasters say more rain is expected in the coming days.
Fatal flooding in Germany — as it happened – DW – 07/15/2021
At least 58 people have died and many more are missing as western Germany deals with the effects of massive flooding.
www.dw.com
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It's a once-in-a century event in a lot of places but it's not without precendent in middle europe.
The Elbe flood 2002 and the Heinrichsflut 1965 were also very catastrophic.
We really needed rain after the last dry summers, but not like this...
There are regular spring floods due to snowmelt, but not nearly this extreme, and towns are prepared for that. Something of this scale in summer is pretty damn rare... or was
There are regular spring floods due to snowmelt, but not nearly this extreme, and towns are prepared for that. Something of this scale in summer is pretty damn rare... or was
There's still an immident danger coming from multiple dams in NRW.
The Steinbachtalsperre (see above) is severly damaged and the Rurbachtalsperre is expected to overflow uncontrolled this evening.
It's cruel you see. Rainy areas will see more flooding and drought areas like California will get even more dry. Nobody wins.
Fucking hell. Those pictures are unbelievable...
I sincerely hope all of German and Euro Era and your loved ones stay safe. This is horrifying.
I sincerely hope all of German and Euro Era and your loved ones stay safe. This is horrifying.
There were some serious floods in 1993 in The Netherlands (which also hit the province of Limburg hard).
1995 also had some serious flooding with one of the biggest evacuation-operations in our (Dutch) history:
I cant really speak for Germany, but Netherlands is the lowest country in Europe and basically a big delta for some of Europe's biggest rivers so we're 'relatively' prepared. After 1993 and 1995 a lot of work was done to make things safer and I can imagine that will now happen again.
Even though we weren't hit hard where I live and we had no rain today, I do have a friend who lives in Erkrath which was hit quite a bit harder. She is okay though and her home hasn't been damaged. She did tell me though she heard so many sirens during work, mostly firefighters.
But seriously, some of these videos are just completely nuts. As many other germans I have seen flooding on the news here and there, but not like this.
But seriously, some of these videos are just completely nuts. As many other germans I have seen flooding on the news here and there, but not like this.
I don't have a source handy but yeah, pretty sure this is true.
More heat means more evaporation means more energy for storms.
There's some more complexity to it than that, obviously.
Y'all stay safe. Floods like this are absolutely terrifying. My heart goes out to anyone who lost property, homes, or god forbid loved ones in the flood.
Fatal flooding in Germany — as it happened – DW – 07/15/2021
At least 58 people have died and many more are missing as western Germany deals with the effects of massive flooding.
m.dw.com
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Same here, I'm having some friends over in the attic but it looks like the garage will have some guests too.
As horrible as it is, I'd probably rather live in a country with too much water and flooding than a desert. I'm from Australia and we're going to get messed up hard by climate change. All our cities are on the coast too.
RIP. Was there anything the city could have done to warn these people first? Or did this rain just come down harder than expected?
Climate scientists shocked by scale of floods in Germany
Deluge raises fears human-caused disruption is making extreme weather even worse than predicted
www.theguardian.com