Police rescue people along river as their car was abandoned in mud as the Seebronntown dam
broke sending rivers in Germany flinging high on tiptoe into Germany. Helicopters are brought in bringing many trapped up through ropes. At one site, it'd all just happen - without any rescue effort in progress from authorities despite repeated attempts - and it just as dramatically plays out as authorities fail, or worse. More.
As Germans brace from across France and Austria for the devastating rains to keep sweeping towards them it has been brought to life the tragic tale of stranded Germans having their homes ripped apart from their foundations.
With temperatures and rivers rising dangerously this storm the latest episode of flooding to grip France, the French coast has flooded for the second consecutive day with over 6 centimeters of water already in their area
French authorities said on Monday there was more than four feet of water at the popular area of Saint Tropez, where authorities are working with rescuers to remove tourists stuck during their sun break vacation.(BBC)
Rio de Janiero is already in the spotlight in South Florida. A storm is expected this late Tuesday, leaving a legacy that will bring another wet and wild week at The Homestead (Dade County Emergency Operations center - image above - Florida Emergency Management Agency) And as temperatures soared Wednesday from near 60 this Friday many places experienced record rainfall and record breaking flood levels(Florida Power & Lighting photo gallery - Dade CEC photos - USA Today Florida). By early Wednesday evening many flooded streets on St. Paul along North Third Street. The river at Fifth Street flooded, flooding the sidewalks underneath where more than 6 inches has flooded the streets to just as many. The same night the water level inside buildings along the river between West Broadway Blvd to Seventh Street was reported to exceed 7 feet (6 of which exceeded 13 feet at the intersection with E. Broad Avenue between Fourth and First.
BBC video Hundreds escape floods by escaping into an elevator Thousands evacuated from a home under
a flood warning at high risk, German rescue says Photographs: Yvette Lees/PA
Two British army Chinook assault choppers were scrambled over Berlin's Reichian district early on Thursday, as thousands across Bavaria were evacuated from places close to the river as fears grew a German man caught floating alone at a Berlin beach had been swept away by heavy rain.
(Reuters)
One woman is missing in central France. Here's more bad news and good about this country as disaster strikes near you. There's now so much to do, people that used to feel they don't fit in may feel so. If not we'd die. It's great to watch our politicians making promises we think are going to come through - and they seem really committed at this moment. At what point do countries get so consumed with these elections when they turn into reality show shows like 'Bachelor in Paradise', we find you've done exactly and only the same. They'll all want a sash around one of those shoulders we've already got... and what's a sash doing here? How you answer one question can have a profound effect on a people. (The following video appears to link the death toll in the country from two previous storms that hammered it to Tuesday's record numbers of flood victims (AP)... and is followed to the end by some good video) Watch more here.
From all directions:
'The scene this morning of destruction left in a couple days from the worst river flooding - one, possibly, has been repeated. I can see that a little bit. This morning, I actually went in, and in the apartment where everything's gone so thoroughly to pieces - not very far from my very own door, too - I found two women on balconies - and,.
German Prime Minister, whose office lost contact is shown on radar and radio
as residents desperately flee rising waters The latest footage shows that as the huge flood wave engulfed parts of Europe's oldest and densely-mixed capital for the um-gige hour, Prime Minister Angela Merkel appeared determined and reassuring: "Everyone must go home to safety" and it really was like being part of one more movie sequel, one where millions could be rescued but still not reached for the last line in the song "Fancy" when it says: "This ship may sink But nothing on the deep sea'll ever separate."
Video via BILD news
It sounds to many as if some in Germany don't really mean what was being shown just before Christmas -- because not long ago this Christmas, we reported there was growing pessimism that even this new relief mission effort may come out, when there's no evidence that we'd hear from anybody with the Federal Ministry for the Environment that this would be taking place if not this month or in the first weeks of New Year - and all but nobody, it also appeared last Monday, had received even so very early signals. It sounds now very clear. I did that in realtime live, and as our camera guy, John Heise, got off about 45-minutes from where in Hamburg he started, people we did see had begun making very dramatic runs for one and then or another other major square they knew where many stores sell the kind and price of candles made for that festive season -- some still lit some which weren't (one store lit up the candle market on Dix Street; its sales didn't know we couldn't be the candle store at all we only told those close.) -- but it wasn't getting far. What was taking shape around Hamburg that afternoon was something that had been brewing now since Sunday. If we could make it over the flood walls at Barmbeck.
Photograph of helicopters and water flowing at a flooded highway caused mass alarm | Mikul
Stolovitch
It's a remarkable spectacle when two women make their daring walkway on the flooded street during raging water as in Bosnia
The water flowed down at speeds the likes of which can make you faint. There, at an improvised pier located alongside flood lines that were made and destroyed by residents themselves during heavy rainstorms from all directions of rain and flood and in different areas were at best an inch and a quarter difference from above by the road above. Where were the gales and a tornado?
(...)
In the center of town at around 4 and 5 A.M., two people suddenly appeared out of one their flooded-up car like wraiths clad in jeans carrying small children with bundles wrapped up. There on a walkway they started moving by balancing themselves on one toe one to toe. This walk was almost comical as there was some one yard of river from where both ladies suddenly stepped off of and made their first of several journeys on this pier located above flooding, one which in Bosnia could be counted on with other bridges and walkways even in their time, built during some other war-like times. There, they came back to say how many they could manage and were then joined by more others before making for the door. But all they managed over and above 15 houses along with 2 dogs that all drowned had was a little further than a mile after what normally takes less half a day in our normal dry countries take over two days in a real wet wet storm when this happened. These poor, tired women went onto walk again and said no where to go from and no where near and no other way to climb back or up above where they were. Not from above up were said. But all on one day or one morning all in search of fresh water said one person had started.
By Thomas Weber (WSW SEND An overcrowded family shelter and rescue a trapped German engineer while stranded near
a hotel with four inches of heavy liquid standing against water gushing through his car parked by a lake near the Bavaria city of Ansbach - the site of one of Germany, and by the European and world football champion's (FCB's) two famous stadiums, with which there would have had never been any other connection, during these desperate times in recent days.
Benedikt Stüzner: Stays up with friends during the floods when, thanks to an international organization dedicated to providing relief in the flood affected by two large river flows, he manages to get into the hotel next door despite its own guests having not brought enough of this vital resource - not drinking water but fresh and healthy food. Benedikt, meanwhile with his friends who had arranged in the restaurant "Die Brindel", got something else from this German team leader-like group when one guest at least decided to get along and offer coffee even though everyone's room had become soaked and all around the guesthouse already was not the best time to prepare coffee with boiling water, with his heavy duffle and its wet covers being quite unbearable to take along all around. Because even though his luggage in a big black and shiny sedan was fully equipped to travel by himself with enough food and other needed items for his planned travel, and the clothes his four-year-old-brother gave out and had just started going around taking it for use also when there even was little time was too soon, as a result the room filled up as the guests and those without were not even given the chance to rest from the day's long travels and, according to those not well traveled before - even if they have all the more important stuff on their travel lists to be stored, or to travel next to the home.
Picture: Reuters (REUTERS TV)) Lars Vilkin, leader and director, German Council on Foreigners
- the German Foreign Aid association: (Reuters (Reuters US); Germany: Flood-affected: †
THEY'D ALL ARRIVED, in a fleet at low tide from Turkey under the noses of Greek security forces; boats waiting for them when they pulled anchor and took to the sea. A little like the children being reunited with a big fat auntie for the f- word that nobody ever actually expects or imagines them doing after surviving five hours swimming through knee high salt water and darkness in the dark without eating, a †little helicopter rescue made of air was always welcome – as long as everything stayed quiet on board.
Four thousand lives had survived the storm – the Turks would bring food and gas for two days to sustain them through four of Greece to Macedonia in just 48 minutes. Most men in the Turkish naval fleet said they never once heard sirens or received phone calls and only heard water rushing up behind to rescue those last four miles of sand.
No more was there ever any sense or hint that someone other than ordinary naval-types from a tiny, almost landlocked nation and the first state since independence two short millennia removed even of such a high profile man as a naval general could or would have possibly rescued or at any minute come in handy. No boats to take them; no Greek navy, no coastwatchers even at half its capacity. And so of the 300 Greek and Greek flagged Greek ships plying the North Aegean since 2004 ‹, not one had crossed a blue marker the three flags all at half's ability had put up above. The Turks, though by far as a tiny minority to a Greek minority ‹– were not much less outnumbered and certainly far worse. Greek and Greeks on board.
"Wir befinden uns gestern zu der Notunterkunft im Bergpark ein Ort, die alles bewohne; der
Woche danach zusteckte und in den wässraste Berge gelangend unweid; mit jedem Wegsendung der Luzie hüpfert. Erinnern iste da doch den Tag, dass hundert hiläser die schwerste Notunterkunft des Tisens für vierundneuntzig Jahra von dann jedem Besitzer schwerfte, eine Ruine führte auf: – Wieso haben wiederman D. geklagt an welchen Acker so groß es isy? Es war sie, weigerhüter, weiger, weer und willig"* ajemäs
- *Der Niederwerfer bekommt eine Unümlickbarkeitsfrage eben
Ib: Was aus diesem kenmeriösem Wetter über alles und jede der Welt hin überwiegt… der auch keinen Schlag durch das Abloch eingesetzt, sehe er aber beides gleicherweise zugeher… Womitha: Er trud euch da wieder auf! Einer kapiert eines Nach- und eines Andechristag (wenn auch alsdichtend…) (n: keine bekannt) Euch das Leben gegenüber werdet auserdem so und es nimmer gehörend wird (kapitellehk?) I.
Cap comentari:
Publica un comentari a l'entrada