It rained heavily for over 24 hours. Streets have been flooded, houses have collapsed and entire places are under water. In North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate, over a hundred people died in a flood disaster as of Friday afternoon. Dozens more are still missing
The next few days and weeks will show more precisely how big the damage is. But climatologists already agree that such storms will happen more frequently in Germany in the future. A consequence of the climate crisis.
So we should prepare for such extreme weather conditions in Germany. But what can that look like? Christoph von Eichhorn from the SZ knowledge team explains in the podcast that above all we have to adapt our town planning: “The goal must be to hold back this water for as long as possible through vegetation but also, for example, through green roofs. Something like that can help The peak of this tide does not come so abruptly, but is spread over a long period of time. ” Although the individual cannot acutely do anything to prepare, he can help fight the climate crisis.
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