Central Europe under water | DW News

Floods are still making their way through parts of Central and Eastern Europe where the situation remains critical. Tens of thousands have been forced to flee the rising waters. In some areas, where it has receded, residents have started to assess and clean up the damage.

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[akl]

This is "easy" mode. In 10-15 years the games we play to survive will become "hard"

[patrickcowan]

That's it. Im selling one of my mansions and two of my four executive jets, i must do my part.

[hariom]

Seriously, still there is a doubt and we are debating whether this continuous disasters are because of us ? Look at our consumption based philosophy, those hunger for GDP and promotions to consume as much as we can. Nature is taking it back what belong to her !!

[butchfajardo]

It has been said decades ago! The number of rain will not increase but the amount of water the rain will pour will hugely increase! And temperatures will increase. The hot will get hotter and the cold will get colder. It's happening globally now.

[slartybarfastb]

I suspect rain had something to do with this.

[karenn]

Lets just keep helping each other in times like these because these occurrences will continue

[mikatu]

We need to work on adapt instead of keep blaming "man-made climate change".
Stop restricting rivers and start widening them where needed. Stop building everywhere and stay way from water-courses. Start building protections against floods, instead of complaining when the water comes rushing in.
Humans survived for millions of years by adapting but now we have a hubris that makes us think we can stop climate change instead of adapting to it.
This happened in the past and will keep happening in the future. We need to deal with it, not fight against.

[rogerwilco]

After the 2001 flooding the Netherlands did change a lot of infrastructure to better handle floods in the future. We widened river beds, created more green spaces and increased water catchment areas.

[KA-jmcz]

EU have to hire Finnish and Sami shamans.
They know weathers.

[pointblank]

There's a big hot summer. Then the water evaporates and becomes clouds. Then those clouds fall back down somewhere. Sounds like a seasonal thing.

[pointblank]

"Man"-made? Are you saying women can't ruin the environment, DW?

[Gutowski]

Cloud Seeding taking it to a higher level..

[klikklakis]

Climate change is indeed responsible for major storms. But not as the media likes to tell us. Stronger storms are a function of greater temperature and pressure differential. The planet is cooling but not evenly. Tropics are hot and put a great deal of moisture into the atmosphere. Cool air aloft condenses the moisture and causes "atmospheric rivers" of exceptional rain to fall over areas where the pressure is low and the temperature loft is cooler than usual. California was hit earlier this year and now it is central Europe. The super cyclone that just hit Chain is another one. Anomalies will be come more frequent as these factors increase.

[jollyjokress]

So what do we learn? ➡➡ Diverse and dense vegetation prevents quick drying out of soil. Thus, even when heavy rainsfalls occur after dry periods the water has a chance to go into the soil instead of just running off its surface.

For a little more background: in a bare soil dryness will cause the soil particles just to stick together. And the dryness of the material itself will repel the water (its a physical thing). But vegetation is moist, the soil material in between is moist so new water will attach more to the avaiable water and can flow. Furthermore, deep and dense pipes of the root networks (this is where biodiversity plays a crucial role), also those of dead roots (where the roots are already decoposed but leave behind their pipes) and the animals that burrow in the soil cause a lot of paths that lead the rainwater down to the groundwater.

[michaelmazowiecki]

Downpours resulting in 40cm per m2 rainfall in several days will always result in flooding, the more so that river flood plains have been embanked, narrowed and built on.

[man]

Why they don't generate electricity from more water?

[beyondresearch]

Maybe it's time to start monitoring the Weather Engineering now? The EU Security Council called for an end to wether engineering at least across Europe, but no one is going to stop at their other 50 countries from doing it...

[joskabouw]

Mother nature will always look for its new balance... which is the equivalent of constant change.

Just the way mother is actions <> reaction

[procurepro]

Its sad an terrible. In poland a rest of country is raising funds to help. I would expect more help from EU

[mytorment]

You let the Son drown in the flood Francis 🥺