The flooding in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands is just awful.
Dozens of lives lost already, and the rain - after weeks of wet weather - just keeps falling...
(photo @lci)
"The extent of flooding in Pepinster, eastern Belgium, is unprecedented..."
Authorities in the Belgian city of Liège call for evacuation of neighborhoods along the river...
rtbf.be/info/societe/d…
Altenburg (Altenahr), Germany...
mdi.rlp.de/de/service/pre…
Before/after: Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany:
bbc.com/news/world-eur…
"Climate scientists shocked by scale of floods in #Germany: Deluge raises fears human-caused disruption is making extreme weather even worse than predicted"
theguardian.com/environment/20…
The point is not that extreme weather events didn't happen before, but that now, they are happening more frequently.
"Events that were once in 100 years are becoming commonplace. Freak weather is increasingly normal."
#ClimateCrisis
#Erftstadt, Germany.
Netherlands: Two #Maastricht neighborhoods evacuated due to floods; 10,000 people seek shelter
nltimes.nl/2021/07/15/two…
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