Reutlingen, Germany, was hit by a catastrophic flood

[JustJohn or JJ]

In a shocking turn of events, Reutlingen, Germany, was hit by a catastrophic flood and hailstorm today. The picturesque town turned into a scene of chaos as torrential rains triggered flash floods, inundating streets and homes.

[karl]

J.J.

Yes, that is most dramatic weather to hit this city, this time of year is uncertain as the snow is melting in the high mountains with nowhere to go except downstream. With this, is seasonal change time with mother nature on the rampage as demonstrated in the film.

Reutlingen is Swabian capitol city of Baden-Württeburg district, an industrial area and is well known for very narrow roadways in and about the city. My self-have never been there and hold no interest is such a trip, nothing against the city though. It is lousy weather to hit though and makes if difficult for people such as times we are living through is not enough.

I would wonder though of those folks taking such risks traveling so briskly in such dangerous flowing water.

Some tourist views of the city in better times:

www.bing.com/images/search?q=reutlingen%2c+germany&qpvt=Reutlingen%2c+Germany&form=IQFRML&first=1


Karl

[pieter]

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[Jaga]

This is really a disaster. Was it last year that something similar happened in another part of Germany? Europe did not have that many climate change caused disasters in the past.

[pieter]

Jaga,

The problem in Germany, Belgium, some parts of France, Poland, the Czech republic and other parts of Europe is that we have often densly populated area's, with densly build villages, towns and cities, with narrow roads, bridges, viaducts, with a lot of trees, rock and earth formations of hills and mountains. In the Dutch sense I mean the South-East Limburg region with it's hills. Often centuries old and sometimes even thousand, 11 hundred or 1200 years old or older. Some buildimgs, houses and churches and other constructions are build with bricks, others with sandstones, others with what we call natural stones (Natursteinen in Germen, kamienie naturalne in Polish, Natuurstenen in Dutch, Pierre naturelle in French), and the concrete-, metal-, and glass constructions of the 20th and 21th century.

Often in Europe houses, farms, restaurants, Hotels and other buildings like government offices or shop buildings are build near rivers, on mountain slopes, under, next or near rock formations or under mountain slopes. With the heavy weather conditions of the last couple of years, these houses, buildings, company offices, shops, restaurants, hotels and schools are in danger to be demolished by water streams, mudstreams, folling rocks or rockformations, falling large trees or debri of other collapsing buildings, or cars, vans, busses, cranes, caravans, campers and other floating stuf that comes with the incredible and unstoppable water streams or mud streams or folling rock formations which broke loss after large water masses shoved them.

Rivers, mountain slopes, large rock formations and mountains need space, you can't build on river beds or on the sides of rivers, or under or near hanging rocks or forests or large trees on mountain slopes. But people did that for centuries, and they still do that today. Thus with large water or hail masses or severe drought, water masses and rocks, trees, and earth changes. They expand and shrink. It is like the tides in the sea. Because we Europeans didn't give rivers space, and also didn't thought about falling rocks, falling stones and falling trees we build next to large and small rivers, rocks, mountains and lakes. Nature gives and takes and does not take into account Human possessions nor human lives. So many people die or get wounded by the extremely strong and heavy forces of nature. The only future solution will be build better constructions and give rivers space and don't build near large rocks.

Pieter

[pieter]

he Algemeen Dagblad (English: "General Daily Paper") is a Dutch daily newspaper based in Rotterdam, Netherlands.



Part of a rock mass fell down and missed a Swiss mountain village. The villagers were lucky that they survived it.

In the Swiss mountain village of Brienz, part of an already threatening rock mass fell down in June 2023. At first light the damage appeared to be minor: the rolling rocks stopped just in front of the first building. In May 2023 all residents of the village were evacuated due to the impending collapse of the 500,000 cubic meter rock mass.

[pieter]

7 sep 2023 #Greece #climatechange #floods
Storms have dumped vast amounts of water on southeastern Europe, with Greece recording the highest level of rainfall since at least 2006. The floods in Greece follow weeks of drought and wildfires. The government says climate change is to blame.

[pieter]

[pieter]

Spain

[Jaga]

Here is another flooding because of the dam collapse that happened in Libya just yesterday. They fear that thousands of people may de dead.

[Jaga]

Washington Post has a good report with videos that are shocking:
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/12/libya-storm-daniel-derna-flooding/

[pieter]

Jaga,

The situation in Libiya is terrible and horrible. Unfortunately for the Libiyans most attention goes to the earth quake victims and damage in Morocco, because much Moroccan migrants live in West-European countries.

It comes with emotions of the people. This is 2021.

Rescue worker emotional due to the damage done by the water in a Roman Catholic church in Limburg, Southern Netherlands. Maybe the guy is a priest?

Pieter

[pieter]