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Horrible fires in the US and Canada. Just yesterday, big floods in China's province Henan.
Just a week ago, ist started raining around here where I live. And then it just wouldn't stop. It just rained heavily. Now, whole villages have dissapeared, we have about 170 deaths to mourn and still people are missed.
Fo instance, there where small rivers, little bachs, which would rise up to 3.60 meters when they show high water. Last week, however, by this example, the water rose up to 8.70 meters. Within just an hour or so. So this maybe gives you an idea, what was happening here then.
Still, many villages have no energy or communication, Drinking water has to be brought in by lorries.
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waterrats
Horrible fires in the US and Canada. Just yesterday, big floods in China's province Henan.
Just a week ago, ist started raining around here where I live. And then it just wouldn't stop. It just rained heavily. Now, whole villages have dissapeared, we have about 170 deaths to mourn and still people are missed.
Fo instance, there where small rivers, little bachs, which would rise up to 3.60 meters when they show high water. Last week, however, by this example, the water rose up to 8.70 meters. Within just an hour or so. So this maybe gives you an idea, what was happening here then.
Still, many villages have no energy or communication, Drinking water has to be brought in by lorries.
The amount of rain that fell in Germany, from 3.9 to 8.1 inches, which is common in Louisiana on the lower end and not really a big deal on the upper end (last week the area where I live, specifically, got 8 to 11 inches of rain within something like 12 hours) is astounding given the topography and how that much rain is not common.
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waterrats
Horrible fires in the US and Canada. Just yesterday, big floods in China's province Henan.
Just a week ago, ist started raining around here where I live. And then it just wouldn't stop. It just rained heavily. Now, whole villages have dissapeared, we have about 170 deaths to mourn and still people are missed.
Fo instance, there where small rivers, little bachs, which would rise up to 3.60 meters when they show high water. Last week, however, by this example, the water rose up to 8.70 meters. Within just an hour or so. So this maybe gives you an idea, what was happening here then.
Still, many villages have no energy or communication, Drinking water has to be brought in by lorries.
The amount of rain that fell in Germany, from 3.9 to 8.1 inches, which is common in Louisiana on the lower end and not really a big deal on the upper end (last week the area where I live, specifically, got 8 to 11 inches of rain within something like 12 hours) is astounding given the topography and how that much rain is not common.
Indeed!
You know, in the valley "Ahrtal" for instance, people live close to the little river since hundreds of years; in the case of the village 'Ahrweiler' now since 1100 years. So people built houses near the riverside and in general, it has been save ever since. There were some floodings during this amount of time, alright, but what has happend here went completly off the scale.
A workmate of mine saw a woman trying to cross the street although it was flooded and that woman was carried away by the waters out of sight and drowned. They found the corpse only days later.
That's what it was like. Any rivulet turned into a river and took everything left and right with it. Several houses were completely destroyed, leaving only empty space where they once stood. The town where I lived just 2 years ago: the main road turned into a river with water 1.5 meters high raging through the central shopping street. One corpse found under a car the next day, in the middle of the street ...
Really frightening.
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waterrats
Really frightening.
Hopefully no one will build that close to the river again. It will happen again. It will happen near by. This year, next year. Soon.
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GasLightStreet
Ida is coming. This will be interesting.
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SomeTorontoGirl
It’s a bad one DGA. A friend’s daughter squeaked thru Hope minutes before the slide and barely made it back to Van. Stay safe out there.
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Stoneage
I hear about the flooding in Western Canada, British Columbia. They are talking about a phenomena called "atmospheric rivers" here. Sounds frightening. Stay safe everyone.
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DGA35
I live near Vancouver and we had historic rainfall a few days ago! My hometown got almost 300mm of rainfall in just 2 days! All highways are shut down due to mudslides, the province declared a state of emergency today and the government is sending in the armed forces to help out! In Abbotsford, just outside Vancouver, the highway is flooded over from a river just across the US border overflowing its banks. That land is all farm land but used to be a lake until it was pumped out in the early 1900s and there is a risk the pumping stations might fail due to all the high water. If they do fail, the Fraser River would start flowing in and the area could be under 12 feet of water!
About an hour north of me, the town of Merritt had to evacuate due to flooding of the river there. 4 months ago, the town was on evacuation alert because of forest fires from the record heat we got!
Luckily the rain has stopped but it's going to take a while to get things back to normal. With all the highways closed, people are trying to stock up on food like at the beginning of covid, so grocery stores have no milk/bread/eggs/produce and gas stations are running low! There are over 1000 people stranded waiting for the highways to open to get back home.