[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

[parmnion]

The worst floods since the 2nd world war..

I wonder what caused them that time..

[LeatherTrumpet]

more here on the devastating landslip

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...0-missing.html

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Still 1500 missing

[arista]

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

[Niamh.]

Bloody hell, scary stuff

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The UK High pressure stopped it moving away for 3 days

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150 now

[Nicky91]

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]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

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.

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[Nicky91]

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

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[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

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

as of today 3 million raised for Giro777 for Limburg

[Nicky91]

''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.


''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.


''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/2021/0...e-change-link/

[Nicky91]

https://azeritimes.com/2021/07/17/me...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

[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