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Massive Flooding in Germany, Belgium
You may or may not have heard or read of this by now -I see some U.S. sources are covering it- but there has been massive, record-breaking flooding in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium in the last 36 hours or so. As of this writing, 101 are confirmed dead and 1,300 missing. Part of the A1 Autobahn has been destroyed and the damages to roads, bridges and buildings is going to be measured in the tens of billions of Euros by the time everything is done.
For those who read German, here are two pieces, one from Die Welt online (which has video); the other from Die Süddeutsche Zeitung online:
Unwetter: Mindestens 105 Tote – Hochwasser in NRW noch nie so verheerend – WELT
And for those who read Dutch, here is a piece from Het Reformatorisch Dagblad which includes a photo gallery:
Geëvacueerde inwoners Roermond kunnen nog niet terug
Published in General
I have seen these reports. The nature and fury of our world amazes (and horrifies) me.
Rescue, Peace, and Safety to all.
🙏
That level around Köln is
about five feetabout six inches in our measure.Edit: I read cm rather than mm. My error. Still a good lot of rain.
That screams geo-engineering to my simple mind.
Someone on a Facebook group about horses said that a lot of this flooding is in agricultural areas and people are missing horses and cattle, no electricity, no internet. Some have said they are worried about the Steinbachtalsperre dam failing.
My error. Only six inches.
Still, seems a great outlier data point.
Praying the dam holds. 🙏
I’ve been in Joliet whe we got over 13″ in a day.
History is full of those. No geo-engineering necessary. Here is a highway in Texas a few years back:
A tropical storm came along and just sat over Houston for days, raining, raining, raining. Places like New Orleans and the Netherlands are very susceptible to these sorts of unusual weather events because they are beneath sea level. A few days ago, we had a highway or three closed down in Detroit because of flash-flooding. They were inundated. But that was an event that happens every few years. When an unusual event emerges, which they do, we suddenly want something to blame, like climate change. But the truth is there has always been variance in the climate, and that can mean very high variance indeed over three hundred years or so.
Yeah, yeah. I already corrected myself.
I was gone before July 18th of 1996, but that is impressive:
Almost 17″ in Aurora? Did they threaten a messenger from God, or what?
Sorry about that. I should have IMed you instead. I thought better of it. My bad.
The Wall Street Journal has been covering the flooding. Is your family alright? Of course, the usual suspects are blaming “global warming”.
We here in Western Washington haven’t had any precipitation for about six weeks.
Nah, no big deal. It had already been quoted.
Yikes. I am flying into Dusseldorf on Thursday.
And the Western US is having the worst drought in decades. Weather.
Remember to come down slowly in an open area. Shoot for the airport.
They are. It’s held so far, but authorities are still warning people to stay away from the area. The number without power has fluctuated between 100,000 and a quarter of a million.
In the Austin area we generally got 39″ a year…in two installments.
But seriously, the situation in the Ahrweiler area, around Köln and Koblenz, is quiet dangerous.
That looks like the year we left, 2015. There was massive flooding in the Austin/Bastrop area right after we came to Germany.
That was Katy Highway near Houston, and may have been a couple years later. I think I uploaded the picture to Ricochet not long after it happened and it’s dated as August 2017, although I could misremember.
Seneca, Illinois got 4 1/4 to 4 1/2 inches in three hours four days ago. A bridge partially failed. A Ford truck partially fell in. The driver had a hell of a time getting out.
Dang.
I think it’s a F-250 XL. The extra length was more handy than usual, in this situation.
James Bond in the rain.
I was aiming for this PIT. How did I hit here?
I liked it.