- Title: Roads around German town of Berchtesgaden impassable after overnight floods
- Date: 18th July 2021
- Summary: BERCHTESGADEN AREA, GERMANY (JULY 18, 2021) (REUTERS) GAPING HOLE WHERE ROAD COLLAPSED AND FLOODED RIVER RUNNING UNDERNEATH CLOSE UP OF ROAD RIPPED AWAY WIDE SHOWING RIVER AND DESTROYED ROAD RUBBLE IN RAGING RIVER FLOODED RIVER RAGING PAST ROAD THAT HAS FALLEN INTO RIVER ROAD THAT HAS FALLEN INTO RIVER, VARIOUS CITY SIGN FOR BERCHTESGADEN BISCHOFSWIESEN, GERMANY (JULY 18, 2021) (REUTERS) WATER BEING PUMPED OUT OF HOUSES BY FIRE SERVICE, VARIOUS DAMAGED NEIGHBOURHOOD WITH STONES BROUGHT BY THE FLOODS, WATER RUNNING ONTO THE STREET FIREMAN AT WORK FIREMEN AND TRUCK/RESIDENT IN RUBBLE THAT CAME DOWN WITH THE WATER FLOODED NEIGHBOURHOOD WITH STONES AND DEBRIS THAT CAME DOWN WITH THE WATER RESIDENTS WALKING THROUGH RUBBLE AND STONES THAT WERE BROUGHT DOWN WITH THE WATER, VARIOUS FLOODED RIVER RUSHING PAST FALLEN TREES, VARIOUS WATER RUSHING FLOODED RAILWAY WITH MUD CRANE WORKING TO FREE RAILWAY SLUDGE ON TRACKS
- Embargoed: 1st August 2021 10:11
- Keywords: Berchtesgaden Floods Flut Germany Hochwasser Klima Ueberschwemmung climate
- Location: BERCHTESGADEN AND BISCHOFSWIESEN, GERMANY
- City: BERCHTESGADEN AND BISCHOFSWIESEN, GERMANY
- Country: Germany
- Topics: Disaster/Accidents,Europe,Floods,Editors' Choice
- Reuters ID: LVA001EMDASLJ
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Roads around the German town of Berchtesgaden were impassable after they were hit by heavy flooding on Sunday (July 18).
Flash floods hit southern Germany on Sunday, killing at least one person and adding to the devastation after flooding in the country this week that killed more than 150 people.
The Berchtesgadener Land district in Bavaria, which borders Austria, became the latest region to be hit by record rainfall and ensuing floods.
Sunday's death brought the death toll to 156 in the country's worst natural disaster in almost six decades.
Some 110 people were killed in the worst-hit Ahrweiler district south of Cologne. More bodies are expected to be found as the flood waters recede, according to police.
Over the past several days the floods, which have mostly hit the states of Rhineland Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia, have cut off entire communities from power and communications. In North Rhine-Westphalia at least 45 were killed.
Finance Minister Olaf Scholz told weekly Bild am Sonntag that the government would be readying more than 300 million euros ($354 million) in immediate relief and billions of euros to fix collapsed houses, streets and bridges.
Scientists have long said that climate change will lead to heavier downpours. But determining its role in these relentless rainfalls will take at least several weeks to research, scientists said on Friday.
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