[arista]

https://news.sky.com/story/germany-a...-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://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-Germany.html





This is Brazil's Leader's Fault.

[Toy Soldier]

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]

[arista]

[AnnieK]

Just shocking....so many missing too

[arista]

[LeatherTrumpet]

Jet stream break up

[Nicky91]

Germany now more than 80 dead

[bitontheslide]

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


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?’



Flooded campside in Roermond

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2021/0...ng-downstream/

[LeatherTrumpet]

now 90 dead

[LeatherTrumpet]

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

[Toy Soldier]

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-...ekend-12356895

[LeatherTrumpet]

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

below is a landslip - scary

[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.

[Toy Soldier]

Yes let’s blame Brazil.

[bitontheslide]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

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

below is a landslip - scary

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

[arista]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Yes let’s blame Brazil.

Many are Blaming Brazil.

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by arista

Many are Blaming Brazil.

Yes the masses love a scapegoat.



Emissions data.

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

[LeatherTrumpet]

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/environm...han-it-absorbs

[Toy Soldier]

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 “