Submitted by Hardscrabble Farmer
When you build your home in a place called Tornado Alley, don’t act surprised when a twister comes knocking. Live in a flood plain, expect floods.
There is a bizarre desire in the human species to deny reality before, during, and after the fact. But here we are, once again looking for someone or something to blame for own poor choices. A quick search of ariel photos of the region beforehand clearly shows that the majority of buildings were all constructed on the nice, wide, loamy floodplain along the banks of some mighty rivers rather than situated above the highwater mark. Never for a moment did anyone ever wonder why it was so flat, swept clean.
Now they know.
Maybe next time will be different.
Striking Photos Show Aftermath Of Europe’s Devastating Floods
Update (1700ET): 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 in Schuld.
Reuters reports 114,000 households in western Germany are without power Friday night.
The Ahr River overflowed and decimated the town of Insul, Germany.
Cars piled up in one German town after intense flooding.
The ground under one town completely gave way.
Images from North Rhine-Westphalia.
Bloomberg shares aerial footage of a massive sinkhole that opened up in western Germany.
Drone footage of the destruction in Germany.
The situation is still ongoing, and deaths may rise into the weekend. There is no telling what damage costs are at the moment nor economic impact.
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At least 1,300 people are still unaccounted for Friday after flash floods in western Germany and Belgium left more than 100 dead and several towns devastated. Rescue efforts continue for the second day as the true extent of this tragedy is only being revealed as floodwaters recede.
According to CNN, 103 people have died in Germany following torrential rainfalls that swept through the country on Wednesday and Thursday. So far, authorities are saying that 1,300 people are missing and the Europe-wide death toll is 117.
The death toll in Rhineland-Palatinate, a southwest German state bordered by France, Belgium, and Luxembourg, has soared to at least 60, the state premier Malu Dreyer said Friday.
Dreyer said there was bad news every hour as rescue efforts continue to find more bodies.
“We have 60 dead to mourn at the moment, and it is to be feared that the number will rise even further,” she told reporters, adding, “We have not yet reached the stage where we can say that situation is easing.”
In North-Rhine Westphalia, a western German state, 43 have been confirmed dead, the state’s Interior Ministry spokeswoman Katja Heins told CNN.
Armin Laschet, North-Rhine Westphalia’s state premier, said the flooding is “a catastrophe of historic proportions,” adding that more fatalities are expected.
Officials believe the high number of people missing was due to a telecommunications blackout after floodwaters knocked out critical telecommunications infrastructure.
Andreas Friedrich, a German weather service spokesman, said the weather event had “very severe precipitation” and was equivalent to about two months of rain.
Axios said, “the rainfall amounts had around a 1% chance of occurring in an individual year, making it a 100-year rainstorm.”
AP reports the German Army dispatched 900 troops to heavily impacted states to assist with rescue efforts.
Thousands of people are homeless as the damage outlined in the tweets below shows entire towns were hit with a wall of water.
Towns in western Germany were devastated by the floodwaters.
More footage.
Rhine water levels are expected to recede in the coming days, but barrage traffic will be disrupted until next week.
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Frau Merkel says bring a lot of masks and hand sanitizer to the clean up.
Compulsory Shit-Shots for all flood survivors and the Reichskanzler will be bringing in some new residents to replace those washed away by way of North Africa, Somalia and Syria, infidels.
Cognitive dissonance is a real bitch!
Here’s OUR … YOUR problem. You have been blessed with the trait of discernment. With each and every passing day, I become more convinced the vast majority of the population is entirely and sorely lacking in this trait. They remain entirely blind to the whirlwind of events happening around us. Blind.
I live in the Forest. I have lived in the Forest since the age of 26, I am pushing 61. I understood wildfire and mitigation when I bought a 300 square foot cabin in the Forest. I have since moving to the Forest MITIGATED my land. I mow, I trim all limbs below 15 feet on mature trees, I make firewood out of the dead ones. Between building a cabin into a home and a shop to work in I MITIGATE. When the fire broke out in 2013 I did not panic, nor run. I packed the important stuff on a pickup and put the mutt in the front. I left a Coleman lantern burning on the hood to help find the truck in the smoke. I took the antique bulldozer that weighs 4000#’s into a crowned fire and cut fire lines around my home and several others, mine and 2 others survived, one burned. Moral of the story? Be aware of your surroundings, plan for the emergencies, don’t just accept what you are told about possible disaster, do your own research and be prepared for any and all emergencies that you can. I feel sorry for the folks in Germany but they set themselves up for a flooding disaster by not doing there own due dilligence on the terrain on which they live.
But… but …. but… I won’t have the time to be with my fake buddies on my ticktocking fakebook
Blaming it on climate change in 3…2…1…
Well …. they ARE blaming it on climate change!! lol
“Catastrophic flooding across western Europe as politicians blame climate change”
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https://generaldispatch.whatfinger.com/catastrophic-flooding-across-western-europe-as-politicians-blame-climate-change/
Not letting a good crisis go to waste.
Climate change yes. But not in the way that they are saying. One of the aspects of Grand Solar Minimums is that they are much wetter, this is why they can be the start of a global glaciation cycle.
Not only did it rain for over 4 weeks but temperatures went way below the norm. In the town I live, the highest temps we had usually in late afternoon were in high 60’s very low 70’s. One morning I even wondered if I should turn the heater up… then I man up. No joke.
Few days ago I even mention on another site I was teaching my veggies to swim.
You forgot all the folks that love ocean views but hate hurricanes.
They weep for the loss and then ask who’s going to help re-build.
While we subsidize their insurance because if it was priced to risk, no one would live within 50 miles of the Atlantic south of the Mason-Dixon line.
I would.
I doubt Germans are that stupid. They knew. They took a gamble. Sure, build elsewhere! Easy to say, harder to do. Here’s the problem.
Germany compared to USA
But, there are 83 MILLION crammed in that small area.
It’s all about LEBENSRAUM.
I think they should invade Poland. Take back the western half of German ancestral lands. Then take Belgium. Maybe France. Oh wait ….
Don’t think Germany would have a chance trying to take Poland in this day and age.
You got that right.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/07/16/exclusive-double-standards-says-poland-government-as-brussels-and-warsaw-set-for-showdown-over-eu-court-ruling/
Sign of the times. Over population and a lack of land to build on.
In all of the photos the high ground remains untouched by the flood. There’s also no buildings on it.
I understand the reasoning- it’s easier and less expensive to build on flat ground than on a hillside and the view of the river is better if you are right on the banks.
But when a flood happens, all of that goes right out the window.
Pretending that floods are solely the result of “climate change” when anyone with two eyeballs and a heartbeat can clearly see that it is a periodic occurrence is sophistry. There’s a reason the banks of rivers are swept flat, there’s a reason the soil is richer on these plains and it has to do with the nature of watercourses. This isn’t trig, it’s common sense. You don’t build on the edge of a cliff or a caldera, you don’t build on a floodplain or a fault line unless you want to eventually lose everything you ever had at some point including your life.
It’s beyond ignorant, it’s pure hubris.
Noticed it as well. All they had to do over time is start to build …. just a few hundreds yards further away FROM THE RIVER! And .. I bet, if one examined historical records, one would have found instances where this region flooded previously. There in nothing new under the sun. Spoken by the wisest man who ever lived.
I learned in escape and evasion school that those that took the easiest path to the next check point got caught. Human nature is such that the people take the path of the least resistance. Those that don’t are exceptions.
We were assigned to a SEER school when I was in Division as OPFOR- I think it was SF- and we caught 90%+ of the guys in the course just by waiting for them along the stream beds. They all thought they could follow the water course to the checkpoints (easier to navigate) without being detected. Over and over despite the course material they were just taught they made the exact same mistake like this time it was going to be different. And they always acted surprised, like they couldn’t believe we’d see them coming. It was embarrassing. The ones who avoided detection were always the ones who would take the most difficult path and do it under the worst conditions because their desire to succeed was stronger than their impulse to do something fast and easy. I remember we had one guy who just waited us out. I think he stayed out there three days without moving knowing that sooner or later we’d come looking for him thinking something had gone wrong and he was injured or lost, He just hunkered down and hid himself so well we walked right past him and then he just strolled on in, eaten alive by chiggers and dehydrated, but he he did it. Little guy but a survivor type to the max.
Human beings are domesticated animals with highly specific traits hardwired into their DNA that very few are able to overcome, even when their very survival depends on it.
Be the loose cow.
Fond memories of Abba from SERE course. That and a phone book upside the head…repeatedly lol. We never had anyone make it without being captured. Kudos to that troop.
Best prep for that course is Fight Club and Apocalypse Now on repeat and zero fucks given.
SERE: survive, evade, resist, escape
Herer in the good old USA they build in the flood plains, and of course buy flood insurance.
Rebuild, wait a few decades and do it again.
Weather is a weapon
We are not an intelligent species….there may be a few intelligent individuals, but as a species
we are NOT INTELLIGENT. We are merely clever. There’s a world of difference between
the two.
Yes, I agree about where and how you Build and what can be expected at some point. However I think the weather is definitely part of WWIII.
People can look at the evidence- the totally unreal outcomes in the California fires (now Canada) etc. the admitting of weather manipulation going WAY back, articles stating (I think it was VW) asking them to stop the rain over their plant, on and on.
Just like the plandemic something’normal’ gets weaponized and it’s obviously easy to hide it from most of the people.
Emf weapons are real and very quiet.
Well they call that region the “low countries” for a reason. Floods there have never been uncommon historically. I guess because there hasn’t been one in recent memory this is suddenly a shock.
Armin Lasche the so called successor to Angela Merkel appears to be laughing during a support speech for the victims of the flood.
Interesting and nauseating at the same time:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/07/merkel_blames_climate_change_for_germanys_bad_floods_but_real_reason_was_botched_local_warning_system.html
So, how does a warning system take the blame for the floods? All the warning system can take credit for is the possible saving of some lives. Everything else that happened was unavoidable, not withstanding Hardscrabble Farmer’s point.
They are leftists they can blame whoever they want (or that’s what they think but the situation is changing, the “serfs” are awakening