How severe is the flood damage in Germany? | DW News

Parts of northern Germany are hit by floods after days of heavy rains. Rising floodwaters have put dykes at risk of collapse. Our reporter went to a village in Lower Saxony, which was hit particularly hard and is now bracing for the danger of collapsing dykes

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[BenjaminMilekowsky]

Hope it's getting better now, send prayer from indonesia to the people of germany❤

[leanneblake]

From Australia, my heart goes out to Germany .💞

[colgategilbert]

My sympathies to the German Peoples. We just went through something like this in the North Eastern US over the summer. My town gets floods as a regular feature every decade. I hope it gets better.

[dm]

Floods in the winter, drought in the summer. But this is fine.

[KxNOxUTA]

Floods here, floods in the UK, earthquakes and tsunami in Japan. It's all happening at once. And then ofcourse war is still ongoing around the corner. Hopefully ppl do a good job of caring for each other as good and as long as possible. Each within our means.

[janetmontgomery-rj]

My sympathies to people in Germany and Europe.. Indeed everywhere.. affected by these floods and awful weathers

[rob.maramé]

This could happen again and again and, as climate trends and instabilities intensify as predicted by climate data and modelling, may become increasingly worse

[janetmontgomery-rj]

They did predict climate change decades, ago. Governments and big. Businessman did not want to listen or act because they didn't want to loose money by making necessary changes in practices policies industry etc. to reduce impact of climate change

[AnimilesYT]

Due to climate change we can expect events like this to be more common. Here in the Netherlands we have a lot of farmers who fight back against policies to protect nature and fight climate change, so I hope they'll soon change their minds. After all, floods, droughts, and other extreme weather can be very damaging to their business as well as explained in this video. I really hope governments all over the world take these risks more seriously and spend more on preventive measures

[MrBoliao]

And next thing the rivers are dry in the summer. I think you need more water storage

[bingo]

Very rainy winters also in southern Sweden, since 2015..2016..

[ozehtdz]

Is it only me, or someone else gets this feeling of living in what once was just a catastrophic movie...😢

[Rugged-Mongol]

This should have been wonderful, winter snow that would've gradually melted away in the spring if only it weren't for this climate crisis caused by net excess emissions.

[Simonb]

If you don't invest in water management, you will get this every year. The Dutch invested 2, 3 billion euro's in 25 years in giving space for the rivers in the winter. There is hardly any major flooding. Only some flooded meadows and basements.

[susanwestern]

It looks the same in Tewkesbury and Loughborough in the UK.

[yardman]

You know whats even scarier, this is only the beginning and knowing the Netherlands Germany Belgium are all flood risk countries Makes me wonder where one would go in emergency

[SonnyDarvishzadeh]

Earth balances itself, with us or without us.

[marshal]

So people choose not to help their own in a time of crisis? Is that the case?

[XonyaTheBest]

God Almighty please help your children, help your people and stop the rain. My prayers n sympathies to those affected

[Automedon]

I sometimes wonder, with the number of flood occurrences in the world, at what point will insurance companies and governments no longer be able to cover the damages?