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As the death toll from flooding in Germany passed 100, and more than a thousand people remained missing, striking aerial photos from the town of Erftstadt-Blessem showed the scale of devastation ...
Floods started in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland on 14 July 2021 after record rainfall across western Europe caused multiple rivers to burst their banks. [ 15 ] The European Flood Awareness System (EFAS) issued alerts of life-threatening floods in advance, which, although very vague, were delivered to national authorities.
In June 2024, significant flooding struck Southern Germany, striking the most in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria.Dozens of villages had to be evacuated across Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria due to the straining and potential failure of several dams and dykes caused by the persistent heavy rainfall. [8]
The 2024 Central European floods were a series of floods caused by a record heavy rainfall generated by Storm Boris, an extremely humid Genoa low. The flooding began in Austria and the Czech Republic, then spread to Poland, Romania and Slovakia, and then onwards to Germany and Hungary. As of 28 September 2024, 27 fatalities have been reported.
Aerial footage released on July 18 showed the town of Altenburg in Ahrweiler, Germany, flooded as the death toll in the country rose to over 160.German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited the village ...
More than 20 people have died and dozens of people were missing Thursday in Germany and neighboring Belgium after heavy flooding turned streams and streets into raging torrents, sweeping away cars ...
2023 Danube floods Hungary: 12: Heavy rains 2024 2024 Germany floods: Germany: 9: Heavy rains 2024 2024 Central European floods: Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, Slovakia, Germany, Hungary and Romania: 27: Heavy rains 2024 2024 floods in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Bosnia and Herzegovina: 27: Heavy rain 2024 2024 floods in Spain: Spain: 227: Heavy rain
ERFTSTADT, Germany/WASSENBERG, Germany (Reuters) -The death toll in devastating flooding in western Germany and Belgium rose to at least 170 on Saturday after burst rivers and flash floods this ...