Current Events > 58+ dead and 1300 missing as floods hit west Germany

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Eastern Germany and Bavaria, as well as parts of Austria, have now also started flooding
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crazy.

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The number of people who have died in the extreme flooding in Germany has risen to 156, authorities say. Koblenz police said on Sunday that another 12 bodies had been found in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate overnight, bringing the number of fatalities there to 110.

Officials in the neighboring state of North Rhine-Westphalia reported 45 deaths by late Saturday evening. At least one person is now known to have died in floods in the Bavarian district of Berchtesgadener Land close to the border with Austria and the city of Salzburg.

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Hmmm. Supposed to be in Salzburg in 2 days but Hallein is flooding and the Salzach in the city itself is getting pretty gnarly. But its supposed to stop raining after today or tomorrow. Guess ill keep an eye on it

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Jesus christ dude

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Going to be helping in the area all next week.

crazy shit I live in Cologne which is perfectly fine and half an hour drive and it looks like you are in a warzone.


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ALIEN_WORK2HOP posted...

Going to be helping in the area all next week.

crazy shit I live in Cologne which is perfectly fine and half an hour drive and it looks like you are in a warzone.

Good man, thanks. Ich liebe NRW

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Alteres posted...

That article doesnt give much info on the cause, just says because of the rains.

This sounds unusual as hell though, or is heavy flooding common in those areas?

RIP to those lost.

it literally just rained non stop and really hard for a week or so. Really crazy shit.

actually it was really only one or two days were it was unusually bad

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It was raining and storming like crazy last night here in Vienna too

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Absolutely terrible :(

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Shezarr posted...

Hmmm. Supposed to be in Salzburg in 2 days but Hallein is flooding and the Salzach in the city itself is getting pretty gnarly. But its supposed to stop raining after today or tomorrow. Guess ill keep an eye on it

Stay safe, man
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Cologne police said in a statement on Sunday that they had managed to reach 700 people who had been declared missing. There are now just 150 people who they have not yet been able to get hold of in the regions around Cologne and Bonn.

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It's going to get worse

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teep_ posted...

Stay safe, man

For sure, thanks dude. Worst case ill stick around in Wien or hit up Graz or Prague

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So is this all rainwater?
I know Belgium was hit hard as well.

This is absolutely crazy.
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SiO4 posted...

So is this all rainwater?

Seems that way.
Europe just isn't used to this shit, in contrast to the Great Plains over in North America.

Questionmarktarius posted...

SiO4 posted...

So is this all rainwater?

Seems that way.
Europe just isn't used to this shit, in contrast to the Great Plains over in North America.

I don't have a source so I'm not sure how true this is, but this is considered a 1 in 25,000 year event
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teep_ posted...

I don't have a source so I'm not sure how true this is, but this is considered a 1 in 25,000 year event

...which is the midwest equivalent of "next Tuesday" - and that's only slightly exaggerated.

teep_ posted...

I don't have a source so I'm not sure how true this is, but this is considered a 1 in 25,000 year event

Ya, I would think so...

So The Rhine is overflowing, and just about everything else?
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I think it's less so the Rhine and more so the smaller rivers
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teep_ posted...

I think it's less so the Rhine and more so the smaller rivers

Ya, this seems very inland.
I trust Germany to be able to handle this.
But it does really suck.

And when you say a once-in 25,000 year event I think of the Glaciers melting.
As for rainfall, that is just amazing. ((It's not Glacial level of runoff))

I really need to check this out more closely.

I hope you haven't been impacted too much.
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just usual stuff happening on the planet

yep

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https://i.imgur.com/evK0NI0.gifv

SiO4 posted...

I hope you haven't been impacted too much

I'm OK. This is all happening a few hundred km to the west of me
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teep_ posted...

https://i.imgur.com/evK0NI0.gifv

I'm OK. This is all happening a few hundred km to the west of me

That is good.

But it also explains why Belgium has been dragged into this.

I actually had a flooding dream the other day...well before I knew about this. ~True story.

This really sucks.
Rain, absent of the ocean and tides...etc...is an amazing outcome to this. Inland.

For what it's worth, I'm glad you're safe.
~It's one less thing to think about...your personal safety.
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my brain refuses to comprehend how "much rain" and "high water" can do all this

all the technological advancements of modern civilization and yet here we are

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Choco posted...

my brain refuses to comprehend how "much rain" and "high water" can do all this

all the technological advancements of modern civilization and yet here we are

That is a stunning amount of rain.
Mother Nature doesn't give a fuck about us.

There is several damns in my region that are placed to hold back water, and create energy, that were originally realized to stop flooding way downstate.
There is a CEman whose father works at one of the energy plants.

But ya, Nature will always take its course.
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just got back from day 2 of making supply runs there from a local company that is gathering supplies to the local towns and cities.

Catastrophe doesn't even begin to describe it...more like apocalypse...some of those towns really look like war zones....Bundeswehr, Police, Firefighter, Red Cross convoys everywhere, cranes, all sorts of heavy machinery, helicopters flying around with supplies, looking for people, airlifting them out, cars mangled into buildings, pavement ripped off of the streets, collapsed bridges, railroad tracks that looked more like rollercoasters, huge piles of rubble line the streets, busted trees everywhere....complete chaos occasionally.

Then you have the little moments that really get you, 80 year olds by themselves bringing wheelbarrows full of mud out of their homes, police not letting you into towns because search dogs are looking for bodies, or because helicopters are landing...I talked to a soldier with an ISAF shirt on today and he said he had been all over the middle east and it wasn't as bad as some of the shit he saw the last few days. There are still some towns where only the helicopters can get to...almost a week after the flooding.

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cleared out a house today. The entire living room was full to the ceiling with trees, mud, rubble of all sorts. Two houses down the road there was a body in the basement.

Insane stuff

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That sounds horrifiying

Friends of mine were able to help out and sent back pictures. I don't think I've ever seen anything that even comes close to that level of devastation in my life
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teep_ posted...

That sounds horrifiying

Friends of mine were able to help out and sent back pictures. I don't think I've ever seen anything that even comes close to that level of devastation in my life

Do you have the pictures?
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