Posts Tagged ‘EU Floods’

I Have Never Seen The Righteous Forsaken or Begging For Rain… Update (7-17-21): At least 125 people have died and 1,300 unaccounted for after devastating floods ripped through western Germany and Belgium.  Rescuers are frantically searching flooded towns in Rhineland-Palatinate, a southwest German state bordered by France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and North-Rhine Westphalia, a western German state.  Thousands of people are homeless, and the German army has deployed 900 soldiers to assist rescuers and the clean-up effort.  The photographs below show the extent of the damage. Some meteorologists have said the weather event was considered a “100-year rainstorm.”  Rescuers walk the streets of a shopping district in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany. Many of the shops have been devastated by the flooding.  Flooding in parts of the Blessem district of Erftstadt, Germany, wiped out homes, streets, and infrastructure.  Here’s what remains of a neighborhood…