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Post by pieter on Jul 16, 2021 9:55:15 GMT -7
It started like this and got worse as heavy rainfall worsened the situation. It went on and on in the Southern parts of the Netherlands and Germany and in the Eastern parts of Belgium close to the German Luxemburg, German and French borders. I didn't heard anything about Fance yet, but they will have some troubles in the border regions as well.
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Post by karl on Jul 16, 2021 21:11:19 GMT -7
Pieter
It just seems like a nightmare with such wide spread flooding and disaster beyond emagination. With dikes being broken possibly worse upon worse. This will not be forever, but only in memories, then once the waters recede, work of clean up and rebuilding. For as with this is not enough, those high waters will also be laden with diseases from raw filth washed in to it and carried forth to where ever.
I do hope with trust you are ok and your home location is untouched.
Karl
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Post by Jaga on Jul 16, 2021 22:36:57 GMT -7
Even the main US news are reporting about the bad situation especially in Belgium and Northern Germany. But the news about other countries - like Netherlands or Poland are not reported.
In Poland weather is also very strange - strong rains, even in Warsaw there were some flooded streets, also very strong winds. I guess, we are dealing with global warming.
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Post by kaima on Jul 17, 2021 8:35:14 GMT -7
Even the main US news are reporting about the bad situation especially in Belgium and Northern Germany. But the news about other countries - like Netherlands or Poland are not reported. In Poland weather is also very strange - strong rains, even in Warsaw there were some flooded streets, also very strong winds. I guess, we are dealing with global warming. Yes, the news is quite selective, but then it must be, you have to choose a topic and its limits and report upon it. A full, comprehensive 'report' or story would take a book to cover properly, and by then it is no longer news but reportage on past history. That is the nature of journalism, as I am sure Pieter can confirm! Friends in Germany have posted that the local village volunteer fire department has moved with their equipment from the village to an assembly point hundreds of miles away to be dispatched by the local authorities to where they can best be matched to needs in the affected areas. For Americans it is equivalent to our post-hurricane actions when volunteers from around the country assemble to repair destroyed infrastructure and bring life essential services back on line. Completely missing from the news was the flooding a week earlier in SE Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine in the Carpathian Mountains. Severe cloudbursts flooded villages and destroyed infrastructure. The roadway below my aunt's house was washed out by the rushing water coming down one small valley and the hillside ditch next to the lane leading up to the farmhouses. Let me see what I can include from the village of Jarabina, a Rusyn / Lemko village bordering on Poland in the Stary Sanc / Stara Lubovna area. This is where the US Marine flag raiser on Iwo Jima was born, Michael Strank.
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Post by pieter on Jul 17, 2021 17:18:14 GMT -7
Kai,
You are absolutely right that the news is limited. I didn’t hear about SE Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine. Probably I missed some Polish-, Czech-, Slovak and Ukrainian news I couldn’t and can’t follow. The the flooding a week earlier in SE Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine in the Carpathian Mountains as you describe Ron, is similar to the flooding in the Moselle Valley (German: Moseltal), a region in south-western Germany
Severe cloudbursts flooded villages and destroyed infrastructure in the Moselle Valley, the Belgian Ardennes mountains, and the Carpatian mountains. The fact that the roadway below your aunt's house was washed out by the rushing water must have been very inconvenient, scary and difficult for your aunt and her neighbors.
I hope that that that roadway can be repaired soon and that life can go back to normal after repairing damaged infrastructure (roads, bridges, houses, community facilities and etc.) is rebuild and restored. The same counts for Germany, Belgium and the South Eastern Netherlands of course.
Cheers, Pieter
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