- Title: Flooding hits German city of Goslar
- Date: 26th July 2017
- Summary: GOSLAR, GERMANY (JULY 26, 2017) (REUTERS) FLOODED RIVER AND HOUSES NEARBY WITH WATER RUSHING PAST THEM FLOODED RIVER SANDBAGS OUTSIDE HOUSES BLOCKING THE FLOODED RIVER FLOODS MAN WALKING THROUGH WATER PAST SANDBAGS MAN STEPPING OVER SANDBAGS TO ENTER HOUSE RIVER THAT BURST ITS BANKS AND FLOODED HOUSES NEARBY PEOPLE LOOKING AT THE RIVER FROM A BRIDGE AND TAKING PICTURES, VARIOUS PEOPLE TRYING TO GET ROUND THE CORNER OF THE HOUSE IN THE FLOOD MAN SWEEPING WATERS AWAY FROM DRAINS, VARIOUS (SOUNDBITE) (German) RESIDENT THOMAS GOETTER SAYING: "It started this morning all of a sudden, I looked out of the window at seven o'clock and thought, ah its ok, we still have a metre's room, but by the time I had got dressed I saw the first water break through. So I got the first car out, but by the time I came to get the second one out it was too late, it was so fast you can't imagine it, I could never have imagined it." SANDBAGS PILED AGAINST A DOOR WITH WATER UP AGAINST IT WATER IN THE GARAGE (SOUNDBITE) (German) RESIDENT THOMAS GOETTER SAYING: "So far we aren't doing too badly, at least so far... We have shored up the door with sandbags and nothing has got into the house yet, it is just a metre and a half, or a good metre in the garage. And at the front we have been lucky, we have stopped it with sandbags and it has worked, it is just around here that is flooded." MAN SWEEPING WATER AWAY PATHWAY UNDER WATER CAR IN FLOODED STREET, VARIOUS (SOUNDBITE) (German) RESIDENT BAERBEL, SAYING: "I think it is a big catastrophe, for Goslar and for all the residents here where all the cellars are flooded and everything, I can't remember we had it in this form before, it's really bad." MAN PULLING SANDBAGS OUT OF HIS CAR PEOPLE SHORING UP THE RIVER BANK WITH SANDBAGS PEOPLE CARRYING SANDBAGS ALONG THE HOUSES FLOODED RIVERS
- Embargoed: 9th August 2017 18:59
- Keywords: weather Goslar rain flooding
- Location: GOSLAR, GERMANY
- City: GOSLAR, GERMANY
- Country: Germany
- Topics: Environment,Weather
- Reuters ID: LVA0016RCTZD3
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- Story Text: The German city of Goslar issued a disaster alert on Wednesday (July 26) as murky water flooded the city centre.
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.
Local media reported that other nearby towns in the state of Lower Saxony had also been flooded. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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