Germany suffers severe flooding after heavy rains

Record ID: 904147

  • Title: Germany suffers severe flooding after heavy rains
  • Date: 26th July 2017
  • Summary: SILSTEDT, GERMANY (JULY 26, 2017) (REUTERS) FLOODED HOUSES LEAVES IN FLOOD WATER VARIOUS OF FLOODED HOUSE VARIOUS OF MAN CROSSING FLOODED STREET WITH BIKE SAND BAGS BY FENCE MEN PUTTING SANDBAGS BY FENCE FIREMEN DRAINING FLOODED HOUSES HOSE IN FLOOD WATER VARIOUS OF FIREFIGHTERS MAN TAKING PICTURE OF FLOODED STREET WATER RUNNING THROUGH STREET VARIOUS OF WATER RUNNING UNDER FENCES VARIOUS OF WOMEN WALKING THROUGH FLOODED STREET WITH RUBBER BOOTS AND BARE FOOTED (SOUNDBITE) (German) SILSTEDT RESIDENT, ANNEROSE AHREND, SAYING: "I packed my bag in case it comes again. We were close to being evacuated. The people in that house over there were evacuated but we could stay at home, thank God. It is bad, awful." VARIOUS OF FIREFIGHTERS WORKING (SOUNDBITE) (German) SILSTEDT RESIDENT, ANNEROSE AHREND, SAYING: "I cannot wish this for anybody after being in it. You see the water rising and rising, it has no end and you can't do anything. That is the bad thing, awful." FLOODED FIELD SIGN READING (German): "ELECTRIC MEADOW FENCE" FLOOD WATER FLOWING VARIOUS OF WATER RUNNING THROUGH BROKEN DAM WATER RUNNING DOWN RIVERSIDE
  • Embargoed: 9th August 2017 20:45
  • Keywords: Germany flooding heavy floods weather Germany burst dam
  • Location: SILSTEDT, GERMANY
  • City: SILSTEDT, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Disaster/Accidents,Floods
  • Reuters ID: LVA0016RCVDXJ
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:The German city of Silstedt suffered heavy flooding after a dam burst on Wednesday (July 26).
    Days of heavy rainfall have turned streams into torrents and caused what are usually small rivers to burst their banks, leaving garages, cellars and some houses under water. Parts of the 40,000-strong city were also evacuated.
    Resident Anne Rose Ahrend said she was close to being evacuated and a house nearby had been evacuated as she walked through the floodwaters in the small town in her rubber boots.
    Local media reported that other nearby towns in the state of Lower Saxony had also been flooded.
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