If the power and network fail, the television, laptop and cell phone are useless. So how can people be warned of a disaster like a flood? For Georg Rose, head of Radio Wuppertal, one thing is clear: through the radio. How exactly such a warning system could work.
Would people in the areas affected by the flood have gone to safety if they had been warned differently, more extensively, more specifically or in some cases at all? Politics and the media in Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia have been dealing with this question for weeks. Georg Rose, editor-in-chief of Radio Wuppertal, learned about his Use on the night of the flood from July 14th to 15th much praise. Even before an official warning was received, he and his team, who otherwise only work in the studio during the day, started a special broadcast. Until five in the morning they broadcast in the dark and bristled with the blackout. The journalist would like the warning and information system in Germany to be reformed. He has drawn up a claim document that SZ has exclusively.