Residents battle against the waters in stricken Erftstadt, cut off after floods caused landslides

Record ID: 1627080

  • Title: Residents battle against the waters in stricken Erftstadt, cut off after floods caused landslides
  • Date: 16th July 2021
  • Summary: ERFTSTADT, GERMANY (JULY 16, 2021) (REUTERS) FLOODED DOWNTOWN OF ERFTSTADT WOMAN IN ERFTSTADT (IN FLOODED AREA BUT NOT IN ERFTSTADT-BLESSEM), WALKING OUT OF HOUSE WITH BUCKET, POURING WATER INTO STREET VARIOUS OF RESIDENTS FILLING SANDBAGS DESTROYED SURFACE OF HIGHWAY LEADING TO SEVERAL PARTS OF ERFSTADT WATER FLOWING OVER UNDERMINED PARTS OF THE HIGHWAY WATER FLOWING ACROSS HIGHWAY WATER FLOWING ONTO HIGHWAY FROM UNDER A SOUND PROTECTION WALL SIGN INDICATING VARIOUS DIRECTIONS IN THE AREA OF ERFSTADT AND PAN TO FLOODED ROAD WATER FLOWING OVER ROAD WATER FLOWING UNDER A BRIDGE FLOODED STREET LEADING TO A HOUSE HOUSE WITH FLOODED ROAD WATER FLOWING INTO A CRATER IN DESTROYED ROAD WIDE OF WATER FLOWING INTO A CRATER IN DESTROYED ROAD FLOODED ROAD LOCKED AUTOBAHN EMPTY HIGHWAY WATER-LOGGED ON AND OFF RAMP ON HIGHWAY DIRECTION BOARD WITH LOCATIONS BLACKED OUT VARIOUS OF HOUSES OF ERFTSTADT IN THE DISTANCE CORDONED-OFF OFF-RAMP ON HIGHWAY
  • Embargoed: 30th July 2021 12:52
  • Keywords: CLIMATE FLUT KLIMA UEBERSCHWEMMUNG. catastrophy debris extreme weather flood
  • Location: ERFTSTADT, GERMANY
  • City: ERFTSTADT, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Disaster/Accidents,Europe,Floods
  • Reuters ID: LVA001EM3B03R
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:With the roads to Erftstadt still blocked, one of Friday's flooding hotspots where several houses in the Blessem part of Erftstadt were several houses had collapsed on Friday morning and others on the brink of collapse, the residents were busy preparing sandbags so other parts of the town west of Cologne would not suffer the same fate.
    Roads around Erftstadt were impassable as they were washed away by the floods. Rescue crews tried to reach residents by boat and had to rely on walkie-talkies to relay information.
    Entire communities lay in ruins after swollen rivers swept through towns and villages in the western German states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate, Belgium as well as the Netherlands.
    More than 1,000 people were missing and more homes were destroyed in flood-stricken regions of western Germany and Belgium on Friday where waters were still rising and the death toll was already at about 117. Some 114,000 households in Germany were without power and mobile phone networks collapsed in some flooded regions, which meant that family and friends were unable to track down their loved ones.
    (Production: David Sahl, Thilo Schmuelgen, Ute Swart)
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