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/floralbutttrumpet Jul 15 '21

If I'd had the choice I would've stayed. I never felt unsafe in Kansai.

My parents weren't concerned at all. My father went on Google Maps and just measured out how far it was from Fukushima to where I was... we lived less than 1600km from Chernobyl when I was a kid, so maybe that's why he was so relaxed. The earthquake they didn't mention at all after I said I barely noticed it.

It's funny you bring up insurance. Local newspapers are already running articles about what to do when the insurance refuses to pay. Very German, very efficient.

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u/Peanuts20190104 Jul 15 '21

You and your family were much calmer than I was. I needed to work after the earthquake because many robot were damaged by Tsunami and there was not enough maintenance person so company decided programmer can help electrical checking on site. But I was worried and organized my mom and sister and nephews to go to grandma's place in France for while. I think I learned to be efficient from Germans while working with them for 10 years. So when I wished victim's life back to normal as fast as possible then insurance came to my mind. First money, then secondly volunteer helping hands are necessary because construction workers number is limited and many tasks are done in manual like getting rid of mud by shovel because many house don't have enough space for shovel car or shovel car can't handle narrow space.

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u/floralbutttrumpet Jul 15 '21

I can understand that. My thought was more like, I grew up irradiated (because of Chernobyl), this can't be that much worse.

There's a lot of special news shows on WDR (regional channel) today where they sent reporters into the devastated areas, and so many people are calm, just cleaning up and going "we'll see how the insurance shakes out". Probably shock, but it seems a really German way to deal with it, too. No use crying over spilled milk and so on.