Germany and Belgium, Europe floods: More than 190 dead

[arista]

https://news.sky.com/story/germany-and-belgium-floods-at-least-44-dead-and-more-than-70-missing-after-heavy-rain-12356134


[Houses have been washed away with many
others in danger of collapsing,
dozens of people are missing or
stranded and 200,000 properties were
without power after two days of heavy rain causes
rivers to burst their banks across
Western Germany and neighbouring Belgium.]



[Flash flood chaos in Europe: At least 67 dead across
Germany and Belgium and scores more
missing as buildings are destroyed and
families left trapped on rooftops after
heavy rain strikes the continent
Torrential downpours struck parts of Europe
overnight, triggering flash flooding
after days of heavy rain
45 people died in Germany alone with
70 missing across North Rhine-Westphalia
and Rhine Palatinate states
Town of Schuld, south of Bonn,
particularly hard-hit after six homes were
swept away and others damaged
Eight people reported dead in Belgium while
a 15-year-old girl is missing after floods in
the country's east
Evacuations also underway in Netherlands,
Switzerland and Luxembourg after
rivers burst their banks]


https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/07/15/14/45483887-9790683-image-a-253_1626356487129.jpg

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9790683/Five-dead-50-missing-floods-destroy-buildings-Germany.html





This is Brazil's Leader's Fault.

[user104658]

It’s all going a bit to **** isn’t it? The world, that is. Faster than expected I think.

[Cherie]

Pestilence..now floods..it’s coming

can’t imagine the terror of having your house swept away

[joeysteele]

A nightmare.

[arista]

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[arista]

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[AnnieK]

Just shocking....so many missing too:sad:

[arista]

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[Crimson Dynamo]

Jet stream break up

[Nicky91]

Germany now more than 80 dead

[bots]

this isn't your standard type of flood. The water level was up to the top of signposts in the street just to provide some context. This is certainly a weather event

[Nicky91]

NL
https://www.dutchnews.nl/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/ANP-433963672-560x423.jpg

King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima visited Valkenburg, flown to Limburg by helicopter immediately after Prinses Amalia's graduation ceremony of her school


There, the army has been brought in to build an emergency bridge over the river Geul after the original bridge was washed away. The Geul itself has been turned into a wild river dozens of metres wide, which has brought muddy water to low-lying parts of the town.

‘We will only see what the damage is when the water has gone down,’ local Anita Auijlen told Dutch media. ‘We had just started painting downstairs and we’ll have to start again.’

In nearby Meerssen, Michel Lillu said the cellar of his home was completely filled with water. Lillu has lived in the town for 27 years and dealt with floods before. ‘It’s not nice, but these things happen,’ he said. ‘And then what do you do, but clear it up?’


https://www.dutchnews.nl/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/ANP-433946098-560x373.jpg
Flooded campside in Roermond

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2021/07/limburg-floods-are-officially-a-disaster-high-water-is-now-moving-downstream/

[Crimson Dynamo]

now 90 dead

[Crimson Dynamo]

24 hour rainfall totals in the worst-hit areas around 160mm

(London had 101mm for their recent event)

[Nicky91]

every town now which is close to the rivers Rijn and/or Maas, are now closely monitoring the situation



PM Mark Rutte had given his sympathies for neighbouring countries as well as willing to help out wherever possible, and has said affected people in Limburg can always contact The Hague to report any damage they have, and they will be helped out very quickly in restoring their homes, without any costs for those people since this officially was called a Disaster by him, and when officially a disaster, there are no costs for restoring damage to homes, cars, or people who need new refrigerators

[user104658]

It’s only going to get worse for the rest of this decade and into the 2030’s. Governments need to be investing heavily in flood defences.

They won’t, of course, they’ll wait until it happens and then bawl “no one could have known!!”.

[arista]

[European floods latest: Helicopters deployed to search
for survivors as new pictures show
aftermath of deadly European floods]


https://news.sky.com/story/european-floods-latest-hundreds-missing-as-rescue-efforts-continue-and-more-rain-forecast-for-today-and-weekend-12356895

[Crimson Dynamo]

more than 100 dead and this figure is set to rise a fair bit it seems

below is a landslip - scary

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/live-experience/cps/624/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2021/7/16/b2526296-2b07-4b8e-b722-0b9e8e38c779.jpg

[arista]

Yes so much Rain, in such a short time.



The Brazil Leader is in Hospital
due to his injury giving him trouble,
when he was stabbed when he got Elected,
He has let Farmers burn half or more of the amazon.
They are now using the land for Cows and the like.

[user104658]

Yes let’s blame Brazil. :facepalm:

[bots]

more than 100 dead and this figure is set to rise a fair bit it seems

below is a landslip - scary

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/live-experience/cps/624/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2021/7/16/b2526296-2b07-4b8e-b722-0b9e8e38c779.jpg

the devastation can come incredibly quickly when nature bites back, scary stuff indeed

[arista]

Yes let’s blame Brazil. :facepalm:



Many are Blaming Brazil.

[user104658]

Many are Blaming Brazil.


Yes the masses love a scapegoat.

https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/styles/original/public/2020-08/co2-emissions-per-country-chart.jpg

Emissions data.

And that huge chunk that’s China is largely due to being the manufacturing base for Western consumption.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Analysis this week showed that over a quarter of the Amazon rainforest now emits more carbon than it absorbs.

Most of the emissions are caused by fires, many deliberately set to clear land for beef and
soy production. But even without fires, hotter temperatures and droughts mean the south-
eastern Amazon has become a source of CO2, rather than a sink.

The government of Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been harshly criticised for
encouraging more deforestation, which has surged to a 12-year high, while fires hit
their highest level in June since 2007.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/14/amazon-rainforest-now-emitting-more-co2-than-it-absorbs

[user104658]

Yes the situation with the Amazon is terrible but it has become “a net contributor” by a thin margin. How people are interpreting that as “all of this is because of the Amazon” I have no idea, when the simple fact is that the #1 contributors to carbon emissions by a mile are the US and Europe.

Imagine being like “Hey this is all your fault! You chopped down the thing that was sucking up all of our carbon emissions :fist: “

[thesheriff443]

You gonna get flooding because the world is flat that’s just common sense

[Nicky91]

at least it's no heatwave which are worse

[Nicky91]

Netherlands: we got charity fund Giro 777 active to raise money for Limburg

the raised money will used to restore the affected towns/cities and rebuild/renovate everything damaged

[Nicky91]

update NL

more evacuations ongoing in North-Limburg (hospital in Venlo also evacuated into a temporary hospital, more away from the river areas)


cities of Arnhem, Nijmegen are closing their docks



and more worrying in South-Limburg, in Meerssen, there is a huge breach in a dike across the Juliana channel

loads of sirens throughout the area, more because a very large area will be flooded

[Parmy]

The worst floods since the 2nd world war..

I wonder what caused them that time..

[Crimson Dynamo]

more here on the devastating landslip

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9794425/Germanys-flood-death-kills-81-1-300-missing.html

[Crimson Dynamo]

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[Crimson Dynamo]

Still 1500 missing :(

[arista]

On Ch4HDnews a Green MP
in Germany, said corpses are in many basements in villages.

[Niamh.]

Bloody hell, scary stuff

[Crimson Dynamo]

The UK High pressure stopped it moving away for 3 days

[Crimson Dynamo]

150 now

[Nicky91]

https://www.dutchnews.nl/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/ANP-433989995-560x377.jpg

NL: a drone's view of the flooding in Limburg

[Oliver_W]

The clip of the campervan being crushed to almost nothing by the flowing water was really scary. With water that strong, I'm surprised there are as few deaths as has been reported...

[arista]

From SkyNews report in Germany
some warnings got out
but many did not.


Next Time they need Loud Sirens
before the Flood

[Cherie]

https://www.dutchnews.nl/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/ANP-433989995-560x377.jpg

NL: a drone's view of the flooding in Limburg

Crazy

[Vanessa]

My cousin lives in Germany.
Thankfully her area is far away from the flooding, but she told me that the situation there is catastrophic.
Many people sadly died.

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/07/16/11/45519585-9794425-image-a-117_1626430148906.jpg

[Nicky91]

Netherlands: already 1 million euro raised in Giro 777 for Limburg action

[Crimson Dynamo]

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[Nicky91]

Netherlands: already 1 million euro raised in Giro 777 for Limburg action

as of today 3 million raised for Giro777 for Limburg

[Nicky91]

https://www.dutchnews.nl/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/ANP-434020199-560x384.jpg
''a local in the village Arcen reinforces his garden wall''

The high volumes of water which have caused flooding in southern parts of Limburg reached the north of the province on Saturday, with evacuations in Roermond and Venlo.

Some 10,000 people in Venlo and several thousand in Roermond were told to leave their homes overnight as a precaution. In some places, dykes and river walls have been reinforced with sandbags by the army working together with volunteers in an effort to keep out the flood waters.

The water level in Venlo is expected to reach its peak at 7pm on Saturday evening and could last until Sunday evening, officials say.

In the far south, where hundreds of people had been evacuated following a reported breach in the Juliana canal wall, officials now say water and sand had been seeping through at the bottom of the dyke instead.

Nevertheless, the floods have caused widespread damage. Valkenburg was hit by the worst of the flooding and one bridge was washed away. There the clean-up operation is now under way.

https://www.dutchnews.nl/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/D00311E1-99C1-48BB-AB7A-16F00EAC34A2_1_201_a-560x425.jpeg
''clean up operation underway in Valkenburg''

Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte has visited the worst affected parts of Limburg on Friday evening and said the country had been fortunate not to have any deaths, as has happened in Germany and Belgium.

Climate change

Asked if the floods should be looked at in relation to climate change, Rutte said that was ‘undoubtedly the case’.

‘There really is something going on here,’ Rutte said, before going on to say it would not be appropriate to make firm statements at present. ‘We need to find out together how it is that so much water fell for so long,’ the prime minister said.

German politicians earlier made a link between the floods, which have cost over 100 lives in Germany, and climate change, as have Belgian and EU leaders.

Downstream

Meanwhile the water and safety boards in Brabant and Gelderland provinces say they are not expecting any problems when the high water volume from both Limburg and Germany reaches them via the Maas and the Rhine.

https://www.dutchnews.nl/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/ANP-434022955-560x345.jpg
''Arcen, near Venlo as seen by a drone''

‘The flood plains will fill up, but that is what they are meant to do,’ a spokesman for Gelderland-Zuid safety board said.

Although the river levels will rise considerably, they will be well below the maximum level the dykes can take. ‘The Maas does not have much space when it enters the Netherlands and all the rain water from the hilly region is an added impact,’ Freek Jochems of the Rivierland water board told website Nu.nl.

‘But the river is much wider in Brabant and Gelderland so the water level does not rise as much,’ he said. ‘We are expecting record volumes of water, but without any major problems.’

Campsites

Some cattle may have to be moved to higher ground and campsites along the edge of the rivers will have to be evacuated, Nu.nl said.

Footpaths and cycle lanes across the flood plains are also being closed to allow small animals to get to safety without being disturbed by walkers and cyclists.

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2021/07/venlo-and-roermond-ready-for-high-water-rutte-sees-climate-change-link/

[Nicky91]

https://azeritimes.com/2021/07/17/merkel-to-visit-disaster-zone/

chancellor Merkel to visit disaster zone, she will visit the commune of Schuld, which had been hit hardest by the natural disaster

During the visit, Merkel will be accompanied by the PM of the Rhineland-Palatinate Malu Dreyer.

[Nicky91]

pictures of Merkel's visit to some of hardest hit flood hotspot Schuld

https://www.bavyeratv.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/219340891_4196734027084968_5327495722902063797_n.j pg

https://www.dewezet.de/cms_media/module_img/26051/13025883_1_articledetail_kanzlerin-im-katastrophengebiet-begleitet-von-rheinland-pfalz-ministerpraesidentin-malu-dreyer-hat-angela-merkel-den-hochwasser-hotspot-schuld-besucht.jpeg

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[Nicky91]

Netherlands: charity fund Giro 777 now at 3.7 million





Germany's ''RTL sommerspiele'' celeb olympics also has raised a decent amount of money too to help out people affected by these floods, and RTLde has opened the ''wirhelfenkindern'' charity organization now especially too for this weather catastrophe

[Crimson Dynamo]

money cant buy old photos and memories that the floods have washed away

[arista]

[Rescue workers and volunteers are
digging through sludge in parts
of western Europe,
where the number of people who died
in flash floods is now over 180 - and
as the rushing waters reach Austria.]


https://news.sky.com/story/germany-and-belgium-floods-at-least-170-killed-as-officials-warn-risk-isnt-receding-12358036

[Crimson Dynamo]

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[Nicky91]

4IQMFyoyXFA

fearmongering title much lol



update on Limburg: most places the water levels are going down towards normal again


Giro 777 for Limburg amount now: 5 million euro

[Nicky91]

also in Germany water levels are going down to more normal levels again

and the crisis situation seems to be coming to an end


death count at 160, and many of the reported missing had been located/found


and now over 2.500 people have been deployed to help out restoring the power grid, clean up all the debris, pump all the water out






back to NL, Limburg Giro 777 now at 5.7 million euro

[Livia]

I have friends and family in Germany, near Wesel, a little north of the bad floods. Thank God they were all unaffected apart from one farm suffering flooded fields. Heart breaking for people who've lost loved ones and/or their home.

[Nicky91]

NL: Limburg the military will now help out with cleaning, fortifying with more sandbags across the river, and rebuilding of homes

[Nicky91]

lots of trash has gotten into the river Maas, which needs to be removed either

[Ammi]

…it’s horrendous and surreal as we’re in the grips of a heat wave, that there would be such devastation so not that far away….the rebuild will be a very costly thing and hopefully will receive much aid and that has to be the focus now…poor, poor people…

[Nicky91]

they prepare themselves now for another upcoming storm


and now it is again a Code Orange weather alert

[Crimson Dynamo]

they prepare themselves now for another upcoming storm


and now it is again a Code Orange weather alert

yes its a low that approaching Marc in Cornwall at the moment and heading for Holland

https://expert-images.weatheronline.co.uk/daten/proficharts/web/en/ens/2021/07/24/basis00/nlnl/pslv/21072418_2400.gif

[Nicky91]

Germany's channel Sat1 showed a recap documentary about this tragedy in some of worst affected areas last night in their show AKTE


showing the destruction, but also the aftermath and now rebuilding/restoring everything


poor 86 yr old woman lost her daughter, but also many photo albums and diaries lost in the flood :( she even cannot enter her home the normal way anymore, now she has to climb a hill and then climb down onto her terrace via a stool, which is difficult for someone her age :sad:

[Nicky91]

https://twitter.com/sat1/status/1419056755049439236

Germany's channel Sat1 its charity show for floodings

raised 31.155.340 euro

:clap1: :clap1: