Freak floods ravaging Western Germany, Belgium, Luxemburg, and The Netherlands

Here's an article that, unlike Cunt OP's choice, is NOT behind a paywall.

The article I posted is not behind a paywall, idiot R1. Perhaps you should learn how to use the internet.

That's horrible unlike the US, the little towns in Germany are beautiful.,

Doesn't GGG live near a bridge?

Men in the midst of a table float here lay dee oh dee lay dee odaloo!

R4 hahahahaha ymmd

OP, it's behind a paywall for me.

Ah, I'm here in an European country, perhaps the site is being blocked in the US?

German Gay Guy, I hope you didn't get your lederhosen wet.

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They should have done a better job with flood control.

Nothing to see here. What climate change?

NOTHING BAD HAPPENS IN EUROPE AMERICA SUCKS

You were doing ok until the posted by line.

^r14 is a nazi apologist

R15 is slipped the arm sleeve on her straight jacket.

A little context there, Yankee Doodle.

[quote]Doesn't GGG live near a bridge?

More like under.

I imagine Germany will have tornado seasons in the not too distant future.

Instead of adding more immigrants, they should've taken that $

& built more/better dams & wider/deeper creeks.

Trust and believe, r19, We know how to take a non-native alien population and put them to work.

There was a major tornado, a F4 one, a few weeks ago in Southern Moravia (Czech Republic).

The poor people involved. It's over a wide area.

Hope people are safe tonight.

Nobody is safe anywhere anymore. I’m so sad for the younger generations. I believe that we have fucked up this planet beyond repair.

^things change

I WANTED TO MAKE A THREAD ABOUT THIS!!

Anyway I am fine, I send my love, Dataloungers. Don't worry. (I know you did.)

I lost everything!! Please send me money!! Can I have your stuff?

If you live in a Country that gets occasional high rainfall there is a trick.

Don't live at the bottom of a valley or near the banks of a river. Ideally live slightly up a hill and definitely avoid historic flood plains.

That's nice, R27, but if you work in a low-lying area, or have to commute through a low-lying area, you're still fucked.

R28 I live in Manchester, UK where it can rain for over 20 days a month year round. You do everything you can to avoid anything low-lying (work, travel, living) with our climate.

R2 This is the message one gets

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So it IS behind a paywall, you FAT WHORE

How come no droughts or floods in Russia?

Russia flooded quite badly in Amur Oblast and in southern Krasnodar Regions a couple of weeks ago.

US news generally focuses just on The US excluding everything else.

80 people dead confirmed.

^And that's just the death toll in Germany.

Fucking hell, now where am I supposed to move and escape the desperate dog-eat-dog multiculti Orwellian Tory hellscape that is become Britain?

The Netherlands was top of my list, followed by France and then Germany. Do I need to emigrate to fucking Japan or something?

It's a lowland area. This happened again and again in the last centuries, but more frequently in recent decades. Just read an article that the moon is 'wobbling' at the moment, which, along with climate change causes the more devastating floods.

Just texted with a friend of mine who lives near a water reservoir there, called Steibach Talsperre, which is up to the rim full and its dam is close to bursting, which means they have to pack up and leave asap.

*Steinbach Talsperre

More than 90 people confirmed dead in Germany, at least 12 dead in Belgium. Particularly in Germany many people are still missing.

This is getting more terrible by the hour.

Try Vienna R35. Great food, lovely people, great architecture, culturally rich city.

More than 100 people dead in Germany, just confirmed.

And people are trapped in houses undermined by water in some town close to Cologne, with no way of getting them out.

Ahrweiler

BENELUX lowland countries head for the hills!

German moron, hahaha

You don't need to understand German to get what happens in this vid.

The stupid things people do for twitter likes.

How comes so much of it looks like the river of chocolate in Willie Wonka.

In the past week alone we've had flooding in Tokyo, New York, London, Western Europe. A record tying 131 degrees in Death Valley, Fires in 12 state.

It’s all because of the moon wobble, head for the hills!

The moon wobble won’t happen until sometime in the 2030s.

As the video at R44 highlights, people have no basic understanding of how fucking DUMB so many Germans are. I lived there for several years--in an area that would flood--and people would always try to cross deep water in their tiny ass cars. It happens in the US too, but more often than not they're driving pickup trucks or jeeps.

This is so sad and I hope and pray my friends across the country are safe. Unfortunately, this entire situation was unpredictable. These cities have existed by rivers for centuries and have rarely if ever seen flooding of this magnitude.

I personally think the death toll will be higher than expected because of people living on the streets (Roma) or those unable to swim...especially in strong currents.

r47, don't forget, it hit 123 degrees in Canada!

Now we have the fires.

At least 106 people dead in Germany - and about THOUSAND people missing.

The problem with those missing is that telecommunication infrastructure has been severely damaged in the flooded regions so there will be lots of people who simply can't call relatives and friends to tell them they're safe - but there ought to be also be quite a few fatalities among those missing.

Another problem: the river dams in that region (and there are a fucking lot of them), many of them being damaged or structurally weakened.

Fuck.

[quote] Do I need to emigrate to fucking Japan or something?

You will be most welcome, R35-san.

Ach du liebe!!!

This is fucking awful! I lived near the Erft river for a while and I'm horrified at the video and photos coming out of the region.

These were flash floods. Not something that was anticipated. One of the videos I watched said this region had two MONTHS worth of rain in two DAYS. Completely unexpected. Some of the flooding happened in the dead of night. I can't imagine how terrifying that must've been.

Here's a non paywall link to a German news source. It's in English but has multiple language options.

Stay safe, my German friends!

Sincerely praying for you safety our German friends.

Freak? Try: the new normal.

This is terrible, it's such a beautiful country and many of those beautiful homes are really old and works of art.

I wish we could have split the rain with them to put out our fires.

Thank you, R56, R57

So sad. This is just horrible. I hope the rain stops.

[quote]and about THOUSAND people missing.

Did you check the attic?

About 130 people in Germany confirmed dead now. The death toll rises as the water subsides, resulting in more and more drowned people being found.

The loss of life is what stands out,

Northern European Countries occasionally flood, it's well known, there aught to be plans in place, Loss of life is usually very small (someone rescuing their dog).

This is a monumental failure on the part of the German Rivers/Environment department.

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The same thing happens in the UK every year (without the death toll).

I bet we don't start dredging again now that we are out of the EU, unless Boris can afford a riverbank house?

Yes, the UK has resumed dredging since the Somerset floods and the finalisation of Brexit.

r60 and r64. This has nothing to do with bad environment or river management. This was just the huge amount of rain in between a very small time frame. They never faced a flood before and it's not a low level region. Those are small, sometimes tiny creeks which were filled with an immense amount of water in between hours. The water was running down hills as well.

There were warnings before, this low pressure area was moving from the south since days and also caused other damages the days before in the southwest, which had not that destructive impact like in NRW.

They could do nothing, other than just leaving their houses in advance. And most happened during the night.

What utter nonsense, R65. Go fuck yourself, Brexit cunt.

Sorry r60. Wanted to address r50.

Amen, r69. Because, you know, climate change is Brussels' fault.

Meanwhile, we'll all just hold our breath till England's glorious liberation leads to the new golden age.

FYI re R68's post:

NRW = Nordrhein-Westfalen, one of Germany's federal states where hell broke loose, with the other state being RP = Rheinland-Pfalz

Are floods "biblical?" Like Noah?

R68 I'd doubt that there is any low-lying land in the whole of Europe that has never flooded, it might be infrequent but it happens.

It's why most of us choose to live on slightly higher ground.

Tales of the riverbank is best left to the animals.

Freak droughts here, freak floods there, Covid-19 everywhere.

Hmmmm, r35.....

Apologies r54!

R66, after the 2014 floods the local people pushed until dredging was started up again. That with other flood defence measures mean this area has not had serious flooding since then despite comparable rain fall. There are places which will always flood which you would expect in a wetland area but not villages cut off for weeks on end. There were arguments initially from conservation people about the effects of dredging on wildlife but the huge numbers of wildlife killed by the flooding ended that argument.

R67, the dredging in Somerset began before Brexit.

Could this be Jehovah's punishment for starting the two world wars?

r74. The most damages occurred not in low lying land. As you can see in the pics, there were houses destroyed, that were more than 400 years old. This small creeks may get some times a little bit higher.when it is raining for days. This time it was raining with an amount of water normally coming down in two months. This happened in between hours. There was a highway flooded up to 12 meters.

A friend of mine lives in Switzerland and has been complaining for nearly two months about the constant rain. Their city is not flooded but the river through the centre is muddy, high, swiftly flowing... it looks like a spring thaw not the middle of July.

And here's Flagstaff, Arizona on Thursday.

It's kinda hard not to worry we're totally fucked.

R83 One thing I don’t understand is the constant shrieking and inaction, you’ve just seen a car float down the road and you have two in the driveway. It would behoove them to either pull them into the garage or if possible drive them around to the backyard. But no, let’s instead continue to film and chant “come inside”and “OMG.”

R80, Jehovah here. Yes, I decided to wait about a century; I'm getting slower in my Eternal dotage.

Watch out for the frogs.

I used to live in that region and have been trying to contact everyone I still know there, very harrowing.

How do you think we feel?

I lived near the Erft which has flooded and covered Erftstadt. That wasn't a "river" as most Americans think of it. It was what we would call a "creek".

It was so low and gentle, you could hop stones across it. I walked across it numerous times. It was ankle deep. A little bubbling brook through Bad Munstereifel that has turned into a six foot deep overflow of raging torrent sweeping away cars and houses.

Shit like that just DOES NOT HAPPEN overnight. Ever. Anywhere but especially not THERE. There's a reason those houses are 500 years old. Because shit like that NEVER HAPPENS. It's not because they were built too close to the creek.

The Erft through Bad Munstereifel sat lower than the town in places. There were stone walls built up along it through parts of the town since the town was higher.

This would be like the normal wash off from your lawn sprinkler turning into the Mississippi River OVERNIGHT. It's shocking.

It's terrifying for those who lived through it and heartbreaking for those of us who are watching in the US and know people who live there.

Thanks r88 for your very good description. Obviously mine was not good enough.

Sometimes people just don't have any frame of reference, r89. Especially in the US where horrible flooding happens somewhere every few years along the major waterways.

The past five years alone, the Ohio River has flooded twice in the spring due to torrential rain. It's just something that has become more common.

People in the US who live near rivers or streams usually have a living memory of some catastrophic flood. It's hard for them to believe that Germans haven't EVER seen this sort of flooding or even have a living memory of this type of flood.

In the US that we even have a saying, "God willing and the creek don't rise". That's how common flooding can be in "these parts".

Seems that German actor Thore Schoelermann may have been affected in some way by the flooding.

[quote]They never faced a flood before and it's not a low level region.

There have been several floods in the last 100 years and before that too. Cologne is on a lower level than its surroundings areas, yes.

[quote]There's a reason those houses are 500 years old. Because shit like that NEVER HAPPENS. It's not because they were built too close to the creek.

And those houses in Bad Münstereifel will still be there in 500 years. This region had floods again and again during the last centuries.

Link is in German, you can use google translate to better educate yourself before you spew shit on the internet.

Is it just me or is r93 a dickwad?

Dunno r94, but I've always kinda liked the wads that shoot out of dicks.

I guess this is the official thread? Looks like the floods have reached Austria now.

Every 20, 25 years or so, Western Europe gets torrential summer rains and horrific flooding. Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg are hard hit because they're at sea level. That's why they call them the LOW COUNTRIES.

Analysis of flood damages from the 1993 and 1995 Meuse (River, Belgium) floods

Freak floods? Uh, no. The first recorded storm flood in the Netherlands was 838 CE.

So, I get that the alliteration of Freak Floods is just to much to pass up, especially from a news broadcasting angle, but what is the real meteorologist term for them?

[quote]what is the real meteorologist term for them?

The correct technical term is "fucking terrifying" r99.

Naitonal Geographics puts the flooding in Germany into pictoral perspective.

They are reaching Austria? Are they literally moving from the north to the south down the globe so to speak? Are they they same floods draining towards the Mediterranean Sea?

Ha ha!

r102. Ahem no. The European watershed divides Germany in the middle. So those floods in western and Central Germany end up in the Rhine, finally reaching north Atlantic.

The most stuff coming from the Alpes north go the Danube River, ending finally in the Black Sea. There is a small part of the southwest around Lake Constance, that ends up in the Rhine, cause lake Constance is technically a huge bay of the Rhine.

But the flood in southeastern Germany and Austria is caused by the same low pressure system shuffling warm air from the Mediterranean filled with huge amounts of water gained from the Mediterranean sea, crossing the Alpes and then dropping all the water on one place in a very short time frame.

Dutch cow survives 100 kilometre swim downstream in river flood waters

Well, at least the rats in Hamelin must have all been drowned.

It is beyond a paywall, OP.

[quote]So, I get that the alliteration of Freak Floods is just to much to pass up, especially from a news broadcasting angle, but what is the real meteorologist term for them?

Well, if they appear quickly (as these did), they are usually called "flash floods."

R108 So, the alliteration still rings true!

Almost 200 people were dead and more than 700 injured, with many still missing Monday, as Germany counted the cost of the devastating floods and asked whether more could have been done to save lives.

Hopefully, it's a prelude to the end of the world.

Actually, R90, "the creek" refers to the Creek Indians and not water. I didn't know that myself until a few years ago. The saying is denounced as racist, but most people probably think it does refer to water.

So the full connotation is “rise up and kill us all!”

I heard Prussia is gone..

Nope, Prussia isn't affected.

More than 150 people still missing.

Does anyone know if this is the remnants of tropical storm Elsa? This seems to be making it's way west- now Russia.