Workers use heavy machines to tear down a damaged bridge in the flood-hit town of Ahrweiler, Germany, on Friday, July 23, 2021. With the death toll and economic damage from last week’s floods in Germany continuing to rise, questions have been raised about why systems designed to warn people of the impending disaster didn’t work.
Sirens in some towns failed when the electricity was cut. In other locations, there were no sirens at all; volunteer firefighters had to knock on people’s doors to tell them what to do. The German weekly Der Spiegel reported that in one suburb of Wuppertal, north of Cologne, people were warned by a monk ringing a bell.
German authorities did receive early warnings from the European Flood Awareness System. These made their way through official channels, putting firefighters on heightened alert as well as smartphone users who had installed disaster warning apps, but such apps aren’t widely used. “People are looking at a life in ruins here. Some have lost relatives, there were many dead,” said Thomas Linnertz, the state official now coordinating the disaster response. “I can understand the anger very well. But on the other hand, I have to say again: This was an event that nobody could have predicted.”The head of Germany’s federal disaster agency BKK, Armin Schuster, acknowledged to public broadcaster ARD that “things didn’t work as well as they could have.
Despite a heavy flood in 2016, nobody had expected the waters of the Ahr River to rise as high as they did in his community, Lemke said.
I guess the answer is man is fallible! So sorry for the victims and their families!
AlexandraChalup Scientists and activists have been screaming about climate change and disasters like this for decades We’ve been warned. Over and over and over and over and over
Don't Ignore: People don't understand the severe IMPACTS of floods like this. And therefore don't know what to do. Every City,. County, State, Country and region needs to prepare for these unusual floods. AND they should include topographical maps. - been in one
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You'd think they would've had a far more developed emergency system. As terrible as the US is at most government-type-things, they at least have that down.
Alhamdulillah....O Allah, make them an example and tear them apart...
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