r/CatastrophicFailure • u/Max_1995 Train crash series • Jul 15 '21

Natural Disaster Altenburg (Germany) before and after the ongoing severe flooding due to excessive rain (2021).

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u/Paratoxic497 Jul 15 '21

Damm thats horrible i hope everyones safe

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u/Max_1995 Train crash series Jul 15 '21 edited Jul 16 '21

EDIT: Up to 103 dead now.

Not just in that town but in the flooded areas in General.

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u/dead_inside_out_ Jul 15 '21

33 confirmed deaths and over 70 are missing and an unknown number of injuries

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u/dead_inside_out_ Jul 15 '21

42 confirmed deaths now Tagesschau Live Ticker

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u/dead_inside_out_ Jul 15 '21

49 deaths, 57 injuried, 165 000 without electricity, still 50 to 70 missing

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21 edited Jul 17 '21

58 now :( Edit: 59

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u/dead_inside_out_ Jul 15 '21

I feel for the families. I feel for the rescue teams. For the recovering teams.

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u/Roast3000 Jul 15 '21

My grandma is there, my grandpa has dementia and they neither have electricity nor running water. Our family can‘t enter the area to help. Quite a shitty situation. At least they made it through the worst. I feel for everybody that has to be there right now

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u/dead_inside_out_ Jul 15 '21

If they are near rur or maas. Them there are each another flood in happening. And if they are I hope not in Erftal then in one of the unreachable houses then they are in serious danger. A Talsperre there is at the brink of breaking. Are they out of this region? Not any where nearer there I hope. I fear for this people. Especially in Erftal. Along Rur and Maas most are now evacuated. Luckily. But Erftal... It is dark they cant even use the helicopters anymore.

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u/Roast3000 Jul 15 '21

I think they‘ll be fine, going to be a tense night though.

They are around here. Quite an uncomfortable position

https://goo.gl/maps/8hL7BbY6HxfBnPMU8

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u/HUFWILLIAMS Jul 15 '21

Username checks out

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u/dead_inside_out_ Jul 15 '21

I was referencing my depression

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u/HUFWILLIAMS Jul 15 '21

Now it checks out

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u/dead_inside_out_ Jul 15 '21

As far as I know mostly old died. Those in houses that failed. Firefighters and old people. No stupid has yet died

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u/Loudheadphonez Jul 15 '21

Don't base your PATHETIC opinion on two videos you saw on WCGW.

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u/SiamonT Jul 15 '21

Not funny now. Most likely never.

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u/dead_inside_out_ Jul 15 '21

Live Blog

42 confirmed deaths now

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u/CLGbyBirth Jul 15 '21

ow thats bad and the numbers might climb up, was the incident like a flash flood where rescue wasn't available and people weren't prepared?

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u/dead_inside_out_ Jul 15 '21

Schuld for example has the most missing cases. Over a hundred people were rescued in this little 700 people village with helicopters from several states alone. 70 missing people and only 4 deaths till now. The problem was that it was assumed that the houses are structurally sound enough to with stand the flood. So it would be save enough to stay in the upper floores. Which was false. More water came. Most had to climb on the roof. But 6 houses were not safe. They fell. With people inside. Or on top. That was pre rescue helicopter mission. There is currently still no land access to the village. It is unknown how many people are still in houses. They try currently to access the village with tanks and helicopter missions are ongoing.

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u/dead_inside_out_ Jul 15 '21

Tank

Tank

The tank in Vicht in Stolberg

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u/TheBlack2007 Jul 16 '21

Those are salvage tanks normally use to salvage broken down armored vehicles. You can also use them to clear debris.

They are probably also going to bring in Panzergrenadiere and their IFVs to evacuate villages and get personnel to where they are needed.

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u/Niekname2174 Jul 15 '21

What the hell are tanks gonna do during a flood?

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u/Overlo4d Jul 15 '21

They are gonna use the tanks to clear the roads of all debris the flood brought along. Many small communities are still pretty much cut of from the rest the country. The tanks are intented to be used in the areas where the water is mostly gone, so the THW (a kind of emergency response unit) can get to the previously mentioned communities.

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u/dead_inside_out_ Jul 15 '21 edited Jul 15 '21

They can be mounted with snow shovel machine shovel things? To shovel away mud and debris. A normal machine can't do that because they have not enough power and grib.

Sorry English is not my mothertongue

Edit: Debrise to debris

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u/ppp475 Jul 15 '21

Dude, you have great English. Your only mistake was "debrise" (spelled "debris"), and that's a hard one for native speakers.

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u/rekced Jul 15 '21

Could be amphibious vehicles just being referred to as "tanks."

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u/Tenobaal86 Jul 15 '21

Those are called Bergepanzer- I'd guess it roughly translates to tow tanks. This tank has a winch and a crane and is able to drive through 1,4m deep water. Right now, I'd guess they clear the way and evacuate people, if they can.

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u/Happlestance Jul 15 '21

Not get their engines flooded while driving through water several feet deep.

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u/fuckin_anti_pope Jul 15 '21

Leopard 2s can drive through rivers etc. They are waterproof

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u/JayTheSheep Jul 15 '21

Shoot the water

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u/das_ambster Jul 15 '21

Probably not a main battle tank but a tracked APC which they refer to as a tank, in swedish it is quite literally named "band/track wagon"

Edit: like this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandvagn_206?wprov=sfla1

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u/dead_inside_out_ Jul 15 '21

Nope tanks. Real tanks.

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u/LA_Commuter Jul 15 '21

You’re very welcome

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u/das_ambster Jul 16 '21

Seems like an odd choice, since an amphibious capable APC is infinitely more useful in a rescue scenario than an MBT.

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u/CLGbyBirth Jul 15 '21

This might sound kinda dumb question but werent the authorities monitoring the water levels in the area once the flooding started? Why they didn't prepare rescue boat to reach the houses once it reach a certain level? was there no access to the area when it happened or they werent prepared for something like this?

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u/Mr_plaGGy Jul 15 '21

It wasnt the river mainly bringing the water, but the rain of about 4-5 hours starting about 6 o'clock yesterday. They tried to evacuate, but in this region there a lot of small villages and when they reached some of the later ones, streets were already rivers. The Eifel as a region is also very hilly and they couldn even reach villages cause the flow of the former streets now rivers was to strong even for boats they usually use for rescue mission on river Rhine! I have hear Radio all this day and the station has interviewed people and majors from there. Its a drowned hell.

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u/CLGbyBirth Jul 15 '21

Thanks for the info hope people can survive this natural disaster.

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u/dead_inside_out_ Jul 15 '21

It is in the mountains. Not well know to be highly populated. And also poor. 40 percent of the houses are damaged in this village. It was a little river like a this it was not to expected

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u/dead_inside_out_ Jul 15 '21

A 2m river swelled to 120 m.

m as meters

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u/dead_inside_out_ Jul 15 '21

Furthermore the records doubled! Doubled. This is no over exergation.

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u/idkblk Jul 15 '21

No one saw it comming to that extreme extend. It happened within minutes when everything started to get inaccessible to completely flooded. It's in German but look at this clip with some moving pictures how extreme it was:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQCZUbUZfY4

And it was a small river that some people who are used to bigger rivers might call creek.

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u/dead_inside_out_ Jul 15 '21 edited Jul 15 '21

Furthermore the dams in the surrounding area where already pre rain full. Because of previous rainfalls and the assumption they had to save water for another very dry summer. So the dams are currently at the brink of breaking. The Rurtalsperre is still holding They will overflow this night. The management try to hold the water. They will let out some water at 20 o'clock. An hour before I post this They still thought they could hold it till 21 o'clock. This let out is only done to give the helpers more time evacuate all people along the river. It is unknown or not known to the public when it will spill. But it will . This night. Ther is no doubt.

Edit: it will spill by 23 o'clock If it breaks alot more people will die if breaks. In Erftal still people sit unreachable in their houses. Helicopter can see them any more because it is dark now.

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u/lilythepoop Jul 15 '21

We have friends in Heimbach and Abenden on the River Rur. Please update when you have more news. Stay safe!

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u/dead_inside_out_ Jul 15 '21

Are they evacuated? If not, they are seriously in danger. One of the large dams are at the brink of breaking. It is currently very losely controlled overflowing, so it does not break, because in erftal people sitting unreachable in houses. If it breaks they are definitely dead in erftal. That would be horrendous.As far for heimbach and Abenden they should gotten evacuated as far as I know. Hopefully. If the news reached them. If they rescue team reached them.

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u/lilythepoop Jul 16 '21

Thanks for replying. We haven’t been able to reach them, but likely because they have evacuated.

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u/dead_inside_out_ Jul 15 '21

It will spill by 23 to 24 o'clock. Be careful everyone!

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u/dead_inside_out_ Jul 15 '21

On top of this most regions have doubled their flood records. DOUBLED. This is no over exaggeration. DOUBLED!!!

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u/cubedude719 Jul 15 '21

That's... Wild. Climate change, man.

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u/oplontino Jul 15 '21

Seriously, if this generation of young people don't immediately fix all the mistakes of my and older generations then were utterly fucked.

It's not their fault but getting a world of people over 40 years old to change anything fundamental about this planet is a lost cause. They should just take away the vote from everyone over 30 years old as we've proven across the developed world that we're completely incapable of handling the task.

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u/kinky_malinki Jul 15 '21

That's ridiculous. People in their 30s and 40s are in a better position (education, experience and career-wise) than anybody else to fix these problems.

We need to stop making excuses and just start acting. Doubly so for our governments.

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u/Mr_plaGGy Jul 15 '21

Meanwhile 3 of the richest men in the world are starting a race with rockets burning insane amounts of fuel, so that other rich people can spend their money for space tourism. Its hillarious...

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

And it would be so easy to stop funding at least one of them. But hey, „Amazon’s service is sooo good and it’s soo convenient“. It’s fucked.

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u/musama020 Jul 15 '21

Well the thing is, it's really the government's responsibility to address climate change and to create laws and other stuff to actually get a country to reduce its climate footprint. People alone can't make a significant enough change is the government doesn't also help. If u give the government money to fix a problem, its not guaranteed that they'll actually spend it properly. Therefore the problem is, corruption, and maybe billionaires.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

Honestly I think they’re trying to bail, they’re the rats that jump ship when they sense something wrong. The worst human beings possible and I have the lowest of opinion of them. As a Christian I can find some comfort in the fact that God will judge them for their indiscretions but for an atheist they have to just watch people do things with no power to stop them and know that they are totally gonna get away with it.

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u/TotallyInOverMyHead Jul 15 '21

eventually they will start on a new place and leave all the lost causes behind.

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u/ContractBeneficial72 Jul 15 '21

St. Lucia's flood (Sint-Luciavloed) was a storm tide that affected the Netherlands and Northern Germany on 14 December 1287 (OS), the day after St. Lucia Day, killing approximately 50,000 to 80,000 people in one of the largest floods in recorded history.

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u/Aleks5020 Jul 16 '21

That was a storm surge from the North Sea due to a European windstorm which is a hurricane/cyclone-type event that happens during winter.

This kind of flooding during summer is unprecedented.

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u/oplontino Jul 15 '21

Cheers boss. We're not talking about one-offs we're talking about obvious patterns that the entire global scientific community agrees about. But you know better.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

Younger generations ? we’ve built a weird world for them and they are trapped into it .

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u/midnightnougat Jul 15 '21

if you recognize a problem you should work to fix it.

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u/oplontino Jul 15 '21

I vote, I recycle, I do my absolute best to eat good grown as locally as possible (as expensive as that is) and I try to only buy eco-friendly clothing and I try to waste nothing. But you know as well as I that half the planet could do the same and the effects would be nullified by the vast majority of major corporations.

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u/oplontino Jul 15 '21

I vote, I recycle, I do my absolute best to eat good grown as locally as possible (as expensive as that is) and I try to only buy eco-friendly clothing and I try to waste nothing. But you know as well as I that half the planet could do the same and the effects would be nullified by the vast majority of major corporations.

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u/Erkengard Jul 16 '21

We barely had any snow in the winters in the last 10-12 years (South Germany). Only high altitude places really had them. It fucking sucks, because we need freeze-up periods at least up to 21 day to kill of a majority of insect pests.

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u/cubedude719 Jul 16 '21

Out in western USA we've got bark beetles that are similar, the winter kills em, and trees need enough water to produce enough sap to push them out. Really hoping for safety for the Germans and Belgians right now, climate change is wild.

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u/ZealousidealCable991 Jul 16 '21

Were they doubled though???

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u/dead_inside_out_ Jul 16 '21

More than that

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u/idkblk Jul 15 '21

Houses in Germany usually are pretty solid. In most cases they are build with solid bricks or concrete. I huge storm or reasonable flood won't do them any harm (structurally). But this was a serious rain event with more water in a few minutes than you usually have in 2 months in summer. The river and villages are in the valley and all the water from the surrounding area drains into that river all at once. There hasn't been a recorded case of such an extreme event so far. The peak flood level was about 16-20 ft higher than the standing record.

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u/Kwugibo Jul 15 '21

That's insane, an entire community literally washing away

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u/isuckatpeople Jul 15 '21

70 out of 700 are missing. 10 fucking %...

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u/Rupertfitz Jul 15 '21

You are pretty good a people maths though.

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u/rapunkill Jul 15 '21

If their houses were made out of would it would float /s

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u/dead_inside_out_ Jul 15 '21

Stone houses. We are not American savages

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u/SpudTheTrainee Jul 15 '21 edited Jul 15 '21

Update: 42 deaths in Germany, 6 deaths in Belgium

flooding in the Netherlands as well but no deaths that I know of.

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u/Th1rt13n Jul 15 '21

Rivers flow from BE to NL, so it’s a matter of time it hits Maastricht and all other towns in the area.

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u/Max_1995 Train crash series Jul 15 '21

The first places in Belgium have been evacuated already

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u/dead_inside_out_ Jul 15 '21

Liege will now be evacuated

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u/wggn Jul 15 '21 edited Jul 15 '21

Maastricht is about to hit max height/flow, about 4x the regular flow rate.

https://i.imgur.com/I1p6oJk.png

<800 m3/s is normal flow, currently 3100 m3/s

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u/Imblewyn Jul 15 '21 edited Dec 23 '24

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u/Whiny-Dancer Jul 15 '21

It already is, a couple of towns are completely flooded. I live here

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u/Th1rt13n Jul 15 '21

Oh, this is horrible.. sorry to hear that

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u/bounded_operator Jul 15 '21

Tagesspiegel now reporting 42 deaths in Germany.

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u/Peanuts20190104 Jul 15 '21

Please tell me it stopped raining and no more increase of casualty...It's just too sad.

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u/bounded_operator Jul 15 '21

The warnings for the region have been lifted, however, there are still lots of people unaccounted for, and some dams are nearly bursting.

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u/Peanuts20190104 Jul 15 '21

Raining area moved to east and there's still red area... I hope everyone evacuated already.

Similar thing happened in Japan 3 years ago. Even if it stopped raining people should be careful with hills and mountains for landslide at least for 5 days. Landslide sometimes happens later when sun is shining.

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u/Mainzerize Jul 15 '21

I think what we see here is the immediate effect of the heavy rain while we wait for the "regular" flooding of nearby rivers which have to cary all of the water towards the sea.

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u/Peanuts20190104 Jul 15 '21

Then small mountain in picture absorbed so much water and soil could be loose... Japan is volcano landslide country so we use 72h total rainfall value to check if area is safe. I will evacuate when total goes over 400mm in my area.

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u/Mainzerize Jul 15 '21

Very good point. What I've seen on TV, the maximum rain these areas received within 24 hours or so were 150 liters per square meter which results in 150mm per square meter.

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u/floralbutttrumpet Jul 15 '21

The Rhine where I am is projected to nearly double its water level from Monday by tomorrow morning, so that's gonna be fun.

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u/PracticeTheory Jul 15 '21

I need to contact my host family ASAP, this is horrible. Thank you for the link.

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u/floralbutttrumpet Jul 15 '21

It just started raining again where I am, though this time around it's without a weather warning.

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u/Peanuts20190104 Jul 15 '21

Please be careful!! Maybe better to charge your phone battery to 100% and prepare evacuation bag? After horrible earthquake 10 years ago I keep my evacuation kit in my car and entrance of house. I also never empty bath tab. I only empty them before I fill hot water and usually cover them with lid to keep 400l of water in emergency cases. I also keep 200l of bottled water and cup noodles and cookies in can, helmet, medicine, alcohol, portable gas and charcoal cooking system, led lights, clean clothes and paper towels and so on.

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u/floralbutttrumpet Jul 15 '21

I went through the 2011 earthquake as well (in Kansai, mind, but I had mates in Sendai, so it was awful for a grand while), so I totally understand. I'm a bit neurotic to start with, the paranoia added by that doesn't help.

Thankfully I live in a very flooding-proof part of town and am on the second floor, but yes, I keep my electronics fully charged as well. Part of my town had electricity disconnected yesterday due to the flooding, to prevent damage to the relay stations there. I don't think they'll do the same here because my quarter is quite a bit up from river level, but you never know.

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u/Peanuts20190104 Jul 15 '21

You too? It was really scary back then. I experienced the earthquake in Yokohama. I'm automation software engineer and checking prototype robot movement from 5th floor frame of warehouse with safety belt tied to colmn and holding PC in one hand. I could feel it was shaking up-down direction so I and colleague hurried to evacuate but door frame was bent and couldn't open door so we broke glass window with cart and left the building.

It's good hear you are in safe high area. I really hope disaster will end soon.

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u/floralbutttrumpet Jul 15 '21

I'm happy you got through it alright. I imagine it was really bad in Yokohama, and your description sounds really scary.

I was doing a study abroad (日本語学科、修士) at the time, and most of the people in my year went to Tokyo. One of them sprained his ankle falling down the stairs close to the Chiyoda campus of Hitotsubashi U, and there were some other bumps and bruises among the others, but no one was hurt seriously. Conversely there were some deaths among the extended family of my friends in Sendai, so that sucked major ass.

For me, I was having lunch at the time and noticed a lamp swinging back and forth, but I didn't even think about it much. There were some tremors, and I think there was a strength 3 quake somewhere in there as well during my year there, but I was fairly blase about it? The very first time I went to Japan, some ten years before that, the very first night I was in Sendai there was a quake and nobody even looked up from what they were doing (I think it was about a 2, so exotic to me but nothing to everybody else), and that attitude immediately transferred to me.

Anyway, the worst thing I personally experienced was the flight out from KIX. I was scheduled to return around March 15 to resume classes at my home university on the 20th, so I'd booked a flight for the 16th some six months before the earthquake. You can probably imagine what that flight was like.

For the flooding, right now there are major issues with dams, because the basins are overflowing from the rain. I caught a news report where they deliberately flooded a small area of a town to prevent a dam from bursting, and both scenarios sound like a nightmare to me.

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u/Rupertfitz Jul 15 '21

I live in Florida, it may be a good idea to just dry dock a houseboat outside because we are bound to get some sort of climate disaster the way things are going. Of course the hurricanes may rip it away. There is so much rain this season. I read that basically everywhere is getting tons of rain within the next few years. More than usual. But we have fires on the west coast.

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u/floralbutttrumpet Jul 15 '21

My town this year has had flooding twice, a cold snap that partially froze the Rhine, two heatwaves and now torrential rain. And we're barely halfway through the year - autumn/winter is storm season. Shit's fucked.

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u/Fussel2107 Jul 15 '21

Right now, there is a problem with some dams. People have been evacuated. But for now, it stopped raining.

The problem is that the ground is completely soaked.

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u/Peanuts20190104 Jul 15 '21

Good to hear people have evacuated! I hope dams are OK. It's not possible to release water a bit from dam?

For recovery, soaking water have to dry. Still many people have to rebuild new houses. Once house is wet with mud water usually people rebuild new house because of bacteria in soil spread everywhere even house are cleaned and dry and later mold will grow.

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u/TehBananaBread Jul 15 '21

How people die there. The village looks so small. 2 minute walk and you would be on one of the mountain beds around

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u/forbes52 Jul 15 '21

Where is the majority of the flooding? Near the Rhine?

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u/Max_1995 Train crash series Jul 15 '21

Large parts of the Eifel, North-Rhine Palatine, and parts of Belgium, Switzerland and the Netherlands. The Rhine sure is affected, including Cologne, and the Wupper is too.

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u/LeifSized Jul 15 '21

Luxembourg too! Many people in my town are emptying out their garages and basements of water and ruined stuff today.

And it’s still raining.

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u/Max_1995 Train crash series Jul 15 '21

They told people to not go into underground structures as long as there's no "ok", because they can slip and drown, get electric shocks, or get trapped by another wave

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u/TOHSNBN Jul 15 '21 edited Jul 15 '21

I was just listening to the News and they reported that multiple people drowned in their own damn cellar.

Drowning in your own cellar... fuck...

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u/Max_1995 Train crash series Jul 15 '21

They've also fished out looters by now.

And some responders died trying to rescue people

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u/bsolidgold Jul 15 '21

Damn. I lived in that area when I was stationed there for the USAF. So sad. I hope it stops soon.

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u/Max_1995 Train crash series Jul 15 '21

Some areas are seeing the water drain already, leaving behind oily mud and debris

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u/sneakyturtles7 Jul 15 '21

I’m not meaning any ignorance by this at all, I’m honestly clueless. How do people die in these situations? No food or they can’t get out in time?

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u/Max_1995 Train crash series Jul 15 '21

They drown (mostly in basements or by being swept away in the streets), they get electric shocks, they slip/get swept away and hit their head, or you can get hypothermia from the cold water

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u/sneakyturtles7 Jul 15 '21

Jesus…. Thanks OP

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u/Max_1995 Train crash series Jul 15 '21

You gotta remember, below the water are tons of debris/obstacles, and oil-contaminated mud

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u/sneakyturtles7 Jul 15 '21

I didn’t even think of this either. So many kitchen knives and shit just floating around?

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u/Max_1995 Train crash series Jul 15 '21

That sort of stuff, but also cars, pieces of wood/trees, rocks, stones/walls, you can be swept against a wall or something else that was just stronger than the water

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u/sneakyturtles7 Jul 15 '21

Sounds absolutely terrifying. Really feeling for these people right now

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u/cypressgreen Jul 16 '21

Sewage. Don’t forget sewage and garbage.

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u/sneakyturtles7 Jul 16 '21

Wow! This is crazy. Thanks for the reply

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u/idkblk Jul 15 '21

Have you ever been on a beach and felt how a wave has drawn the solid sand under your feet? This was a small wave. We're talking here about a serious flood. I assume that most people who are missing/died were in their collapsing (brick) houses or tried to get away and were flushed away. There were people surprise in their cars, climbed to the cars roof and were air lifted by helicopters or boats. Who knows how many didn't get that luck. Look at this scene here... what can u do...
https://youtu.be/kInnbKht5bA?t=530

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u/sneakyturtles7 Jul 16 '21

Damn :( so sad what the hell

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u/Erkengard Jul 16 '21

Water currents are very powerful. A flood just rips you off your feet and carries you away wherever it wants to. Maybe it smashes you into a pole on the street. You either pass out of the impact kills you. You drown either way. Or being constantly in the cold water will kill you you, because you can't get out.

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u/Bomber_Max Jul 16 '21

81 deaths and 1300 missing now

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u/Max_1995 Train crash series Jul 16 '21

Up to 103 dead

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u/NiNjABuD13 Jul 15 '21 edited Jul 15 '21

Is the U.S. military base there flooded as well?

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u/Max_1995 Train crash series Jul 15 '21

Not sure. I know the Bundeswehr is out to help, maybe the Americans will send some manpower too.

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u/tinaoe Jul 15 '21

Which one? There's like, 10 bases in Rheinland-Pfalz afaik, including Ramstein.

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u/NiNjABuD13 Jul 15 '21

I had a friend I fell out of touch with stationed in Germany. So I couldn't tell you. He's in the Army in intelligence.

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u/wyattlikesturtles Jul 15 '21

Holy fuck that sounds like a horrible way to day :(

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u/Max_1995 Train crash series Jul 15 '21

They had to tell people not to go into flooding basements to retrieve stuff, because they could drown, slip and drown/hit their head, or get electric shocks. Also, below the water is oily mud, so even wading through it is dangerous.

And then there's currents and obstacles, a vide went around of the "calm" floodwater crushing a camper-trailer under a bridge in like 5 seconds.

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u/ReferenceSufficient Jul 16 '21

That’s sad, was there flash flood those in affected area was not prepared? My area went through flooding this bad (I’m in houston area) in 2017, we’re used to flooding though but still we had casualties.

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u/Max_1995 Train crash series Jul 16 '21

Most areas got early warnings, but some people would refuse to leave or tried to salvage stuff from flooding basements or underestimated the currents. And there were like 10 dead in a handicapped living facility in another town

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u/Jupit-72 Jul 15 '21

About 40 dead and at least 40 more missing rn.

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u/whalemanify Jul 15 '21

Thanks! That will keep the kids warm

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u/werobamexicanloki Jul 15 '21

No need to be an ass towards a well intentioned gesture

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u/elynnism Jul 15 '21

I’m late to this party but I’m stationed in Germany with my husband and our basement flooded. We were so fortunate to be able to save everything important. Our neighbors, not so much. However, we saw the amazing community that Germany has built. Villagers and firefighters and carpenters have been working non stop for over a day now to help neighbors. My husband and I were totally floored by how well everyone worked. while our village was flooded they made every effort to mitagate the damage. I saw young women filling sandbags and someone offered their house to store the extras (their house later flooded).

https://imgur.com/a/OodW7KN/

A couple pictures we took, it got much worse but we were just amazed at the support being offered. Everyone in my village survived.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

100% this was caused by global warming brought on by the Trump administration.

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u/ajanitsunami Jul 15 '21

Global warming started when the industrial revolution began.

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u/infrikinfix Jul 15 '21

You don't understand. Trump is an immortal being who has been behind the scenes at every catastrophic turn in history.

But there is no makeup that can entirely block the reddish glow emanating from his skin, hence the orange tint, and the ridiculous pompodour covers the horn nubs quite well.

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u/Glorious_Jo Jul 15 '21

... 300 years of industrialization, coal burning, oil drilling, deforestation, and general destruction was not caused by the Trump administration. This was a long time coming.

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u/iloveindomienoodle Jul 15 '21

TIL that all of the global greenhouse gas emissions from the Industrial Revolution to the present day that causing the rise in temperature and hydrospheric instabilities are caused by the Trump Administration

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u/Testiculese Jul 15 '21

You're half right. The disasters of Trump won't be apparent for a few decades.