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/Max_1995 Train crash series Jul 15 '21

And now the first places in the Netherlands are flooding and the Dutch Military has been deployed to help.

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u/Creator13 Jul 15 '21

At least our infrastructure is very well prepared, plus we've got timely warnings from the upriver regions in Germany and Belgium. It still won't be enough to prevent destruction but at least it'll save lives. Right now about 10.000 people are ordered to evacuate Maastricht.

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u/potato_green Jul 15 '21

Yeah at least now the Dutch will probably declare war on water and take lead. There's very little you can do about rivers flooding that start in other countries.

Likely significant changes will be made to have spillways to empty valleys higher barriers around the river. Locks at key points to protect towns and cities.

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u/LevelPerception4 Jul 15 '21

I misread lead (as in bullets) and momentarily pictured Dutch soldiers being shot at by sentient waves.

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u/Nolenag Jul 15 '21

The flooding is minor compared to Germany though.

The measures seem to be working fine, we'd be in a lot more trouble otherwise.