At least 21 dead in 'catastrophic' flooding in western Germany
Source: The Guardian
At least 21 people have died and dozens are missing or awaiting rescue from rooftops after heavy rain and floods caused buildings to collapse in the western German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and North-Rhine Westphalia.
In the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Schuld, set in the Eifel mountain range, police said on Thursday morning they were searching for about 70 missing people following the collapse of six houses. At least eight people are confirmed to have died, officials said.
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A spokesperson for the Koblenz police told Reuters that an “unclear number” of people needed to be rescued from roofs.
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The full extent of the damage in the region was still unclear after many villages were cut off by floodwater and landslides that made roads impassable. Videos posted on social media showed cars floating down streets and houses partly collapsed in some places.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/14/firefighter-drowns-and-army-deployed-amid-severe-flooding-in-germany
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Now that it's happened both in winter and summer, preventive spending on flood mitigation infrastructure will perhaps affect the EU summer vacation this year.
Good thing global leaders agreed to tax international companies at 15%; that will be just the beginning of climate mitigation costs.
Wishing for a solid recovery for Germany. 
Although we get a lot of rain annually, we're already on track to set records for rainfall amounts this year.
And last winter we had an unusually long spell of below-freezing weather. We can usually keep some annuals planted in the ground year-round. Maybe every 2 or 3 years we have a slightly hard winter, but covering the annuals usually protects them during our normal short cold spells. I lost of lot of in-ground plants last winter due to below-freezing weather for days at a time.
But climate change is a hoax!
