Floods in parts of northern Europe after heavy rains • FRANCE 24 English
cars are underwater basketball courts flooded and entire streets are washed out in brebach Germany following two days of continuous rainfall that has affected nearly the whole zand state and caught locals off guard my bedroom is downstairs and has never been underwater before this is the first time today floods in my room that was the worst that could have happened to me some 40 km away residents of hemog woke overnight to Mercy services at their doors water levels had risen unprecedentedly fast they had to evacuate it’s been here I was born and raised here but a flood like this I have never witnessed and neither have the people in our town by Saturday afternoon Germany’s chancellor Olaf Schultz had arrived to zand praising the work of volunteers he noted the need to keep preparing for events like this in some places in the state Germany’s Weather Service measured more rainfall in 24 hours than in the whole month of April over the Border in Belgium residents vary sandbags in attempt to protect their properties it’s a situation all too familiar in Central Europe after catastrophic floods 3 years ago hit many of the same regions we’ve ruined the climate ourselves that’s the problem and I think more water is going to fall I’ve been here 11 years 2021 was the first this is the second in France too streets were completely submerged in the Northeast Melle region levels reached as high as 40 cm in some areas and were yet to hit their Peak
Heavy rains caused flooding in parts of Germany, Belgium, France and the Netherlands overnight into Saturday (May 18), swamping streets and buildings and sparking evacuations.
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26 comments
German guy" we ruined the environment" still no german would abandon their private cars and demand for the govt to link the country with efficient oublic trnp
So sorry for everyone affected, but please don’t call these regions Central Europe, it’s really on the western end almost
well .. the extra water from all the melting glaciers and polar caps has to go somewhere . it can't just stay in the sky indefinitely- > RAIN! .it's all headed for the ocean anyway , the the rising sea level is coming for YOU!
🇧🇷 stop climate manipulation, chemical trails, destruction of forests, pollution and CO² emissions, reforest and clean up the environment 🇧🇷
Rise your hand from ethiopia
40cm is nothing compared to Brazil’s over 5 METERS. An entire state (Rio Grande do Sul) has been completely wiped off the map.
Homes and businesses mentioned every time. But what about food growing areas? No wonder we're in a food crisis!
Continue to drive your SUVs, cars, scooters; instead of subsidising sustainable green farming, give farmers bribes; make laws than to stay in power take them all back… I wonder when people will understand the old way of living is over.
Strange. Here in Sweden we have had highpressure with warm temperatures the last 7 days. And it looks to continue next week.
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C'est malheuresement.
And here in Jamaica I am roasting 🌅🌅
Is it flooding in Edegem, Belgium? I have a dear friend who lives there and she is 80 years old.
Thank you!
😢 its getting so hot🥵🥵
Upgrade or blame climate change, which costs less witches
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If only they had voted for the Greens in Germany. They know better how to manage the land and environment.
Forests in Canada are so envy
Flooding all over the World… end of the World getting closer 😮
Restore wetlands
This is so weird. Here in the Philippines where it should always be raining, it's so hot and hardly ever rained. April heatwave is something we have never had before. Temperature daily is 35C which isn't normal to us.
UK hot and sunny 🌞
These heavy floods have nothing to do with climate change, change is happening in the world for a reason
Aqueduct pipelines should have been built decades ago, send the water to Spain and Portugal.
Ooooh! A visit from Chancellor Scholz – now THAT should solve all their problems.
Ursula Von Der Leyen European Commission and Sholtz deserves to resignation the Joe controversy illegal constellation conspiracy satellites Biden closing the Ramstein base in Germany leaving gone home usa.