Tag: flood
Dramatic flood situation: disaster in Berchtesgadener Land
The situation in Berchtesgadener Land is coming to a head as a result of heavy rainfall. The district declared a disaster at 10:22 p.m. due to the severe weather. As…
Erftstadt: Laschet and Steinmeier in the flood area – politics
Armin Laschet’s press officer has a request to the camera teams and reporters in front of the Erftstadt fire station. She points to the ambulance, which is a few meters…
Flood disaster: clean-up work and increasing numbers of victims
Status: 07/17/2021 5:22 p.m. Rescue and clean-up work continues in Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia. The dead are still being recovered. In some places in North Rhine-Westphalia there is also danger…
Cologne Central Station: When nothing works anymore with rail culture
The world melts in a gray liquid and with it all timetables. Rain pours on Cologne when screens, hotlines and websites let us down. It is the first evening of…
Flood disaster: more than 100 dead
Status: 07/16/2021 1:19 p.m. The number of deaths in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate continues to rise – people also died from the storms in Belgium. Hundreds are still missing. The…
Flood disaster: death toll continues to rise
Status: 07/17/2021 02:13 a.m. Rescue work is progressing in many places, and more and more fatalities are known. In the Heinsberg district, rescue workers had to bring hundreds of people…
SZ podcast “To the point” – news from July 16, 2021 – knowledge
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…
Flood disaster: “New bad news every hour”
Status: July 16, 2021 9:56 p.m. More than a hundred dead, still many missing – politicians and experts expect the number of victims to rise. Because now the water is…
NRW and Rhineland-Palatinate: Video shows the situation in the flood areas
Devastated towns, flooded streets and huge earth and rubble avalanches: Photos from towns such as Erftstadt (North Rhine-Westphalia) and Altenahr (RP) particularly affected by the storms show the extent of…
Flood disaster: the weather is political
analysis Status: 07/16/2021 7:39 p.m. The severe weather disaster is also a challenge for politicians. Union candidate and NRW Prime Minister Laschet is suddenly the focus of criticism. But what…