The swollen Meuse river "is going to look very dangerous for Liege", a nearby city of 200,000 people, warned Wallonia regional president Elio Di Rupo. In Belgium, the army has been sent to four of the country's 10 provinces to help with rescue and evacuations. Gerd Landsberg, head of the German Association of Towns and Municipalities, said the cost of the damage was likely to run into "billions of euros". "Houses were largely swept away by the water and some collapsed," the Cologne local authority said on Twitter, while a spokeswoman for the local government told AFP there were "confirmed" deaths. Several people were dead and missing after a landslide in Erftstadt-Blessem in NRW, local officials said on Friday. READ MORE: Death toll from rains and floods in Germany, Belgium continues to rise "The number of victims will likely keep rising in the coming days," he added. Regional interior minister Roger Lewentz told local media that up to 60 people were believed to be missing, "and when you haven't heard from people for such a long time. In Ahrweiler, around 1,300 people were unaccounted for, although local authorities told Bild the high number was likely due to damaged phone networks. The number of casualties in Rhineland-Palatinate has reached 60, bringing the national toll to at least 103, authorities said Friday.
"My empathy and my heart go out to all of those who in this catastrophe lost their loved ones, or who are still worrying about the fate of people still missing."
#GERMANY FLOOD SINKHOLE FULL#
"I fear that we will only see the full extent of the disaster in the coming days," Chancellor Angela Merkel said late on Thursday from Washington, where she met with President Joe Biden. In Germany's hard-hit Ahrweiler district in Rhineland-Palatinate, several houses collapsed completely, drawing comparisons to the aftermath of a tsunami.Īt least 24 people were confirmed dead in Euskirchen, one of the worst-affected towns just to the north. Luxembourg and the Netherlands were also hammered by heavy rains, inundating many areas and forcing thousands to be evacuated in the city of Maastricht. Hundreds were unaccounted for in the country, while the death toll in Belgium jumped to 23 with more than 21,000 people left without electricity in one region. And overnight another 50 centimetres were added," said Christoph Buecken in Eschweiler in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW).Īdding to the devastation, several more people were feared dead in a landslide in northern Germany on Friday triggered by floods.
"We rushed home and found ourselves waist-deep in water. Residents were shocked by the damage as floodwaters continued to rise overnight. "Our flat, our office, our neighbours' houses, everywhere was under water." "Everything was under water within 15 minutes," Agron Berischa, a 21-year-old decorator from Bad Neuenahr in Rhineland-Palatinate state, told AFP news agency. Some districts were completely cut off from the outside world.
Streets and houses were submerged by water in some areas, while cars were left overturned on soaked streets after flood waters passed.
#GERMANY FLOOD SINKHOLE TORRENT#
Unsuspecting residents were caught completely off guard by the torrent dubbed the "flood of death" by Germany's top-selling daily Bild. Several more people were feared dead in a landslide in northern Germany on Friday triggered by floods. In partnership with the Springfield-Greene County Parks Department and Ozark Greenways, floodplain and riparian corridor acquisitions are often utilized for the development of parks and trails in addition to flood hazard reduction and water quality enhancement.The death toll from devastating floods in Europe has soared to at least 126, most in western Germany where emergency responders were frantically searching for missing people. Since 1993, over $12 million has been utilized for these property acquisitions. These acquisitions provide benefits to the public in terms of flood control, stream and groundwater quality protection, wildlife habitat, and recreational uses. Storm water bond issue funds allocated for this program are used to make voluntary acquisitions of flood prone properties as well as undeveloped acreage in floodplain and sinkhole areas and along riparian (stream) corridors. The Floodplain Acquisition Program was formed after the flood of 1993, when several homes in the Ferguson Sinkhole area were heavily flooded.
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