German officials said Friday their warning system, which includes a network of sensors that measure river levels in real time, functioned as it was supposed to. The Extent of Flooding in the Hardest-Hit Areas of EuropeĪ preliminary analysis of satellite imagery shows wide areas of flooding along rivers in western Germany and neighboring countries. At least 20 were reported dead in Belgium.Ī European weather agency had issued an “extreme” flood warning after detailed models showed storms that threatened to send rivers surging to levels that a German meteorologist said on Friday had not been seen in 500 or even 1,000 years. Frightened residents were being evacuated in the shovels of earth movers.īut nowhere was affected more than Germany, where hundreds were still unaccounted for and the death toll had reached 106 and was expected to rise as rescue workers combed through the debris. The scenes of devastation from the floods came from all around Western Europe as the death toll passed 125 on Friday, with another 1,300 people still missing.
Rescue workers toiled on Friday night to reach people in remote German villages hit by some of the most severe flooding Europe had experienced in decades, as questions began to be raised about lapses in the country’s elaborate flood warning system. Rhein-Erft-Kreis/Cologne District Government, via Associated Press The death toll has passed 100 and hundreds more people remain missing in Belgium and Germany after strong rains caused rivers to burst and wash away buildings.
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