Floods batter southern Germany after Danube river bursts its banks

Floods batter southern Germany after Danube river bursts its banks | DW News

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Ай бұрын

Here in Germany, a state of emergency has been declared in parts of the south, as heavy rains and flooding batter the region. The Danube river has burst its banks and in the southwest, heavy rains triggered a landslide that derailed a passenger train. The army has been mobilized and residents are being forced from their homes.
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@TheSpiralnotebook Ай бұрын

I appreciate the calm, relaxed tone of voice of this reporter. Shouting and adrenaline are not necessary or professional.

@rayhassan3302 Ай бұрын

@Thespiralnotebook; you are correct how voice is calm.

@LaoNiu-yj6nw Ай бұрын

Both the anchor and reporter made a concise and clear presentation. Well done.

@zeronetster Ай бұрын

Dont leave your pets behind

@zaram131 Ай бұрын

‼️‼️‼️

@WeldersOfJabulon Ай бұрын

🤣

@juniourx2203 Ай бұрын

Just 1 year ago the river was drying up

@ronaldmarcks1842 Ай бұрын

The reporter';s English is truly excellent. Yes, she speaks formally and uses little current language, but her English is letter-perfect and very clear. If only my German were half as good!

@radoslavkad.8353 Ай бұрын

Uhhh she's not a native English speaker?? I mean the other reporter said her name's Tessa Walter or something, that's definitely not a German name

@allisongrant3094 Ай бұрын

@@radoslavkad.8353German is clearly her first language. She has a subtle German accent. And her last name “Walther” is German.

@harriskhan2126 Ай бұрын

Beautiful land of earth condolences from city of Hobigonj Bangladesh.

@DRK-Westfalen-Lippe Ай бұрын

Much strength to the people affected by this flood ❤

@hape3862 Ай бұрын

The straightening and canalisation of rivers was apparently not such a good idea after all. It's time we finally renaturalised our rivers and gave them back floodplain forests where floodwaters can take their course.

@Mac-ix4qp Ай бұрын

Die Hochwasser der Donau sind mir in Erinnerung geblieben, seit ich im letzten Jahrhundert zum ersten Mal Süddeutschland besuchte.

@TimpanistMoth_AyKayEll Ай бұрын

Keep in mind that the extreme weather events we're experiencing now are mostly the effects of emissions from 20-30 or more years ago. So several decades of worsening is already locked in. But we can still affect just how bad it gets in the end - and every tenth of a degree matters.

@samuelszalma4957 Ай бұрын

U also mean the enormous methane from oil fracking in N America emitted since early 2000s... every1 mentions just CO2 all the time...

@MrToradragon Ай бұрын

I just wonder whether reduction of sulphur oxide emissions from cargo ships in North Atlantic can have impact on this as it had reduced formation of clouds over the shipping lanes. So I wouldn't be surprised if there would be more moisture making it over continent and greater evaporation caused by more solar radiation being absorbed by surface of the seas.

@jamesjonnes Ай бұрын

The floods we are seeing all over the world are due to some of the strongest geomagnetic storms ever recorded.

@winterlinde5395 Ай бұрын

@@jamesjonnespleas explain

@imtheeastgermanguy5431 Ай бұрын

@@jamesjonnesno

@connortilson7141 Ай бұрын

Thinking you you all ! Stay safe 🙏

@ankee.3259 Ай бұрын

Danke für die guten Wünsche, liebe Grüße aus Deutschland!

@markochs2495 Ай бұрын

I hope the real Germans are safe @@ankee.3259

@eeveecat2158 Ай бұрын

Tragic 😥

@FieldDay-bx3wx Ай бұрын

My condolences to the German Volk Unfortunately this will likely become a more usual thing My best advice is get pragmatic about options in future regarding this type of event

@kurtzwar729 Ай бұрын

Europeans historically built homes and businesses right next to rivers. No setback at all. They need to move back and give the river room to move. Nature rules.

@merzto Ай бұрын

Old Towncenters are high enough and not in the floodplain. But houses build in the last 80 years have been build to close to the water

@TaCC2 Ай бұрын

In just realize how true this is. Almost every german city - even the small towns - are built around rivers and have/ or had little ports.

@nightowl6260 Ай бұрын

Good reporting.

@johndewey6358 Ай бұрын

I hope people are safe. Does German government have any long-term plans for these floods that appear to happen almost every year. I can only imagine the hardship on all the people.

@Stoffmonster467 Ай бұрын

Yes, a lot of flood retention was built the last 10 years

@DK-ev9dg Ай бұрын

They are not Chinese

@niklas7355 Ай бұрын

Well currently we did not invest good enough in local areas. The goverment gave much money to the Military but nothing stays in germany

@johndewey6358 Ай бұрын

@@niklas7355 I know what you mean. The war in Ukraine has been a wake up call for many nations.

@ichputzhiernur2829 Ай бұрын

hm fighting climatchange? :D

@Jormunguandr Ай бұрын

For some reason the big rain clouds missed me by 2 miles.

@rajupodiyan3147 Ай бұрын

Thank you so much 🏫

@paulcoverdale8312 Ай бұрын

Stay safe everyone 🙏🙏👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🥃🥃

@ankee.3259 Ай бұрын

Danke!

@movdqa Ай бұрын

We've had a lot of rain the past five years in New England and this is a marked change from many years of dry weather or even moderate drought. Our infrastructure can handle it for the most part but there are disasters from time to time in areas with low drainage or where the water level rises really fast to high levels. I would personally prefer to have more rain than not enough as there are areas with drought and I don't know what those areas do to deal with it.

@mcending98 Ай бұрын

Just this morning I thought, wow the river carries a lot of water today, this is the amount where germany has flood troubles.

@anam.caballerowilson9421 Ай бұрын

Walked about in Danube river

@johnburns6422 Ай бұрын

Stay Safe the German people are very close to my Heart , Take care from ☘☘☘☘☘.

@sandyjust 14 күн бұрын

This makes me sad. It's been going on for almost two months. Different parts of Germany are being affected by heavy rain.

@Jan96106 Ай бұрын

Das ist aber schade. Es tut mir leid.

@anamello_manaus Ай бұрын

Lamentável 😢

@crisismanagement Ай бұрын

Is that the beautiful blue Danube?

@gerhardma4687 Ай бұрын

The water of the Danube is not really blue.... but thats the Danube in the back

@crisismanagement Ай бұрын

@@gerhardma4687 Johann Strauss II gave it that name when he composed The Beautiful Blue Danube in 1867.

@jessicapabon2105 27 күн бұрын

Does anyone know if this was in the area of Stuttgart Germany??

@pixiefairygodsangel9165 Ай бұрын

Where from DW & which city?? Germany

@winterlinde5395 Ай бұрын

It’s all over the south of Germany. Several towns and villages are affected. From Lake Constance to Thuringia and beyond.

@bojanm986 Ай бұрын

"Special irrigation operation". DW, month ago.

@guilhermetavares4705 Ай бұрын

That fire truck looks old

@hammer-r Ай бұрын

Nah that’s just the style they have over there. Nothing like our monstrous trucks. They need to get into tighter places.

@guilhermetavares4705 Ай бұрын

@@hammer-r I'm not talking about style, in my country they use European trucks. It's just that it's a really old Mercedes.

@HolloMatlala1 Ай бұрын

Every summer this happens it's the 2nd time

@sam-zi3lg Ай бұрын

Remember flooding when merkle was in power

@frankblangeard8865 Ай бұрын

Lots of flooding everywhere. Except Ukraine!

@WeldersOfJabulon Ай бұрын

Putin did it.

@jackbolder5734 Ай бұрын

No map view?

@pnwadventures2955 Ай бұрын

News reporters in 2000: "The flooding is located here on this map:" News reporters in 2024: "The flooding is located in the south of south bavaria, 1 hour to the west or east of that one big town and all around there, and in other places too. Many places are affected!"

@merzto Ай бұрын

A lot of rivers have high water, it's not just one town. Though most places are fine.

@MrToradragon Ай бұрын

@@pnwadventures2955 But they provided the name of the town, and almost everybody has access to some maps today.

@FieldDay-bx3wx Ай бұрын

We call it evapotranspiration

@rogerterry5013 Ай бұрын

Society pulls together, but Thatcher said that there is no such thing as society.

@gregorywilson2124 Ай бұрын

Is this normal for southern Germany? I would think they would have Dams protecting the towns?

@swagkachu3784 Ай бұрын

these floods are not seen since a century for this region

@saba6502 Ай бұрын

Southern Germany had very severe floods in the past; there are many small and also big rivers such as the Inn, the Danube etc etc. Yes, of course there are dams, but at least 2 already broke. The amount of water raining down was and unfortunately is immeasurable. A bad-weather system was moving from the Mediterranean (the temperature of the Med. is already 2 to 3 degrees higher than in the past) over the Alps to Southern Germany, and at the same time a bad-weather system from the North West was moving to Southern Germany.

@MrToradragon Ай бұрын

@@saba6502 This reminds me situation from 2002 when southwest Bohemia and Bavaria were hit by two weather systems within a week or so and the cascade at Vltava was unable to cope and all but two power stations were severely damaged. And it was also around this time of year or maybe a month later, but that is IMHO not that big difference. I just hope that there will not be another system coming as in 2002.

@saba6502 Ай бұрын

@@MrToradragon Yes, true - I remember the floods in Bavaria and Bohemia in 2002 well. The South of Germany has just been hit again, let's hope that Bohemia will stay safe this time! All the best from your Bavarian neighbors

@MrToradragon Ай бұрын

@@saba6502 OK, i will convey your message to my friend living in Bohemia, I live bit further east in Moravia and we were lucky in 2002, but it was close call. If it would move just bit east, we would had problems as well. Still it was unreal to see footage of all those flooded cities. I would say that if it will repeat it should not cause as much damage as in the past, luckily the Orlík is half empty due to construction of new spillway, so they should have enough space this year. There were extensive upgrades and repairs done on various ponds and dams, so the risk of breach should be much lower than in 2002.

@chimfwembebwalya3229 Ай бұрын

I was wondering what microphone she was using

@WeldersOfJabulon Ай бұрын

It's the Swan Lake.

@anandsharma7430 Ай бұрын

All this trouble to humans is nothing compared to the mass drowning of all small animals that live in burrows, holes - squirrels rodents, reptiles, as well as cats, dogs, all kinds of insects and so on. A flood washes away all established ecosystems and replaces them with rotting carcasses. While we tend to completely ignore these creatures, these ecosystems are critical for restoration of local flora and fauna. Fortunately, usually these species come back in a year. However, if the alternating floods and droughts keep recurring, these ecosystems will not have time to restore themselves. That is bound to have an impact on the local biodiversity and eventually on pollination and crops.

@marcux83 Ай бұрын

Armin Laschet be like: ahahaha poor peasants

@MSDGroup-ez6zk Ай бұрын

The effect of petrodollars.

@electrolytics Ай бұрын

How does that work? Explain how Petrodollars cause floods.

@MSDGroup-ez6zk Ай бұрын

@@electrolytics Easy bro. Petrodollar has caused the number of motor vehicle, commercial jets, tanks plastics and other petroleum product derivatives just to increase the volume of petroleum worldwide. Petrodollar is an agreement between President Nixon and King Fahd from Saudi Arabia where Saudi only exports its oil in USD and invest its profit in the USA. Thus for example, number of cars in 1970 when Petrodollar agreement was signed was only 200 million. Now number of cars jumped to 1.4 billion cars. Imagine according to a research done by the UN, each passenger in an ICE car produce 192 gram of CO2 in a year, with 1.4 billion, the world will have 268.8 billion of CO2 from one single passenger. If each car carries approximately 2 passengers a day, the world will have 537.6 billion CO2. This CO2 is one of the gases that create a climate change that create the melting down of the south and north poles ices and extra heavy rains everywhere that create flooding everywhere.

@electrolytics Ай бұрын

@@MSDGroup-ez6zk How did the Petrodollar cause an increase in the number of cars, jets, tanks, plastics etc....

@danielcaldwell1110 Ай бұрын

@@electrolytics By smothering and stalling public transportation. How is the smothering done? Through lobbying in European governments along with the big car companies to divest in public transportations so people have to buy cars. Not that hard.

@electrolytics Ай бұрын

@@danielcaldwell1110 So individual people would choose public transportation over their own personal cars if it wasn't for lobbying by car companies and "petrodollars?

@Oiiii794 Ай бұрын

Sorry for them being driven out of your home is sadest thing any humanbeing can experience.

@TaCC2 Ай бұрын

One firefighter drowned in the floods while trying to help people escpaing their house

@Alex-pr6zv Ай бұрын

If someone comes on the TV later this year to tell us the forests are dying because it`s been too dry, I swear I'm going to go mad.

@imtheeastgermanguy5431 Ай бұрын

Why you are getting mad? It's obvious that this can happen

@Alex-pr6zv Ай бұрын

@@imtheeastgermanguy5431 youre right of course.

@imtheeastgermanguy5431 Ай бұрын

@@Alex-pr6zv I mean the rivers are often "straight" and don't have that much storage areas where water can soak into the soil and getting stored there over the summer until the autumn and winter brings new water

@gerhardma4687 Ай бұрын

Although Germany is actually small, even here you can see significant differences in climate. While Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg have experienced the heaviest rainfall in the south, the federal states in the middle have got off lightly and the north-eastern federal states are still suffering from a severe drought. The highest forest fire level was even declared there two weeks ago. So the statement “Germany” has to be put into perspective. Because there are already big differences to be seen over 1,000 km.

@imtheeastgermanguy5431 Ай бұрын

@@gerhardma4687 it depends on the landscape of the area. In the south of Germany there are the alps which are like a wall

@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands Ай бұрын

Here in the Netherlands the river IJssel, a branch of the Rhine is filling its winter bed again, but thus far our systems can cope with the extra water coming down from the south and the Alps, only worries, major polluters in France and Germany will try to dump poisonous wastes again, nobody is checking them now..

@krishnakanth77 Ай бұрын

Drone fottage

@user-gn1ln9mk5i Ай бұрын

Instead of wasting money on conferences build walls around rivers and hot point so the watter cannot flood the cities and villages.. use stones, its easy.. also its easier to talk about a problem in a conference room and drinking plenty of wine and eat food, after, then actual woking on solution.. there was floods milion of years.. ancients used stones in a river coridor.. what you use? KZfaq advertisments?

@DevendraGuptaProfile Ай бұрын

manheim news?

@anam.caballerowilson9421 Ай бұрын

❤

@domesticcat5069 Ай бұрын

🗨️🌊

@anneherman6745 Ай бұрын

💙👼🏻🕯️

@tamlamoore7962 Ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@roseela1191 Ай бұрын

Hahhh

@ZoraDrinic Ай бұрын

GOD HELP .AMIN.

@lauriewood3916 Ай бұрын

Tell me again how it's "just the weather"!!!!!!! This is only the beginning!!!! Goodbye Mankind. You blew it!

@gregsau1860 Ай бұрын

Gute Besserung! 😂😂

@rajupodiyan3147 Ай бұрын

Can people find there food and take rest🛑

@patrikbergqvist6988 Ай бұрын

Why Timmy why

@SkySlug12 Ай бұрын

This is actually one thing that would bear the risk if Elon expanded his factory in Germany.

@halberderdier8073 Ай бұрын

What? Sentence is incomprehensible.

@saba1030 Ай бұрын

The area, where Tesla has its gigafactory, is at the most dry area/region in Germany and hundreds of miles away from these flooding areas...

@SkySlug12 Ай бұрын

@@saba1030 Yeah, but there could be a chance that the area could get rain.

@saba1030 Ай бұрын

@@SkySlug12 The federal state of Brandenburg is called "the sandpit of Germany", because it's so dry there 😎 Edit typo/autocorrect

@gerhardma4687 Ай бұрын

This is the most sensless comment to this video!!!! Do you stand in front of your Musk shrine every day and pray to him? What nonsense you find here.

@bartboesten Ай бұрын

Schreklich bin halb Deutsch. Hab geweint und Gott gebeten um Hilfe. Möchte Jesus dem Man von Feuerwehr im Himmel bei sich habe dan er gab sein lebe vur anderen und damit so sagt uns dem Biebel im evangeluem Markus. 😢😢😢

@angriboi Ай бұрын

Klar, dein Gott und Jesus werden alles lösen, wie immer. Beten hat schon immer alle Probleme gelöst.

@thoroughsoft Ай бұрын

Next time make sure you say your prayers under the water. Do take your time for the prayers. Extensive time...

@hrs6480 Ай бұрын

Deep condolences to all damaged but please don’t call Bavaria southern Germany 💙

@SanjayKumar-jd3bv Ай бұрын

Germany just enjoying rain vacation 😂😂 call idf nethanyahu to help you. .call usa anglo saxon brother to help you

@arthurlevin Ай бұрын

Water is a precious commodity Germany would be smart to invest in a water collection and redistribution system.

@saba1030 Ай бұрын

It has...it's just too much water at the same time = having rainfalls inner two days with the amount of a few months = total overload...

@rachelrrb1111 Ай бұрын

There are many reservoirs already. Building new ones has become virtually impossible (social and ecological effects of flodding a valley etc.)

@MrToradragon Ай бұрын

@@rachelrrb1111 So maybe, I know that this option is probably not possible in all places, it would be worth to investigate whether old coal quarries and sand pits can be connected to rivers and act as reservoirs. Or maybe low weirs can be constructed at ends of natural lakes in order to control the flow in case of floods. Or if there are some basins of lakes dried in past few centuries that can be either restored or used as detention basins. According to maps there should be at least wetlands or bogs south of Penzberg and Murnau am Staffelsee, another is at Oberau, maybe some detention basins can be build there. Perhaps there could also be some former lakes that are not visible on maps available to me at the moment, so maybe there could be another suitable places that can be flooded, but it would in fact be restoration of given site to it!s natural state and thus would most likely pass as good thing.

@gerhardma4687 Ай бұрын

The problem in this region, however, is that there has already been a lot of normal rainfall in winter and spring and the soil is saturated with water. And if 100 liters of water fall on one square meter in a few hours, the soil can no longer absorb it and almost everything runs off above ground and ends up in streams and rivers, and the dams cannot withstand the floods for long. They fill up, then the pressure on the sides becomes too great and they break at the weakest points. And in a flat region you cannot really build big Dams to hold back such masses of water

@arthurlevin Ай бұрын

@@gerhardma4687 thank you for your insight

@user-sz1vx3bs4k Ай бұрын

Is there any help from the U S A.?

@gerhardma4687 Ай бұрын

why? Germany can handle this alone.

@user-mr4bx1ld2p Ай бұрын

I haven’t heard that the USA receives any help from Germany with all of our hurricane’s, flooding , or tornadoes. I thought that the USA rebuilt Germany after WWII.

@gerhardma4687 Ай бұрын

@@user-mr4bx1ld2p You alone rebuild Germany after WW II? And you rebuild it? The Americans came to Germany and worked on the infrastructure, developed new products etc.? The US, but not only the US gave money and and Germany is grateful for it. Germany and the other rich countries support the poor countries in the world when natural disasters occur. That makes much more sense than sending money or aid to countries that have a good aid infrastructure and sufficient resources of their own.

@michaelprovence Ай бұрын

At least they can not complain because there is a drought until 2 months in August!

@QPRTokyo Ай бұрын

Need to improve the drainage system.

@libiure Ай бұрын

in the usa; government corruption has pillaged taxpayers' money for decades - our infrastructure is in ruins, but fixing the problem isnt' a topic ..

@halberderdier8073 Ай бұрын

Where in the fields? Along rivers? It's climate change, man. We gotta fight CO2.

@FromAgonyToLight Ай бұрын

Apostle Henry B. Eyring prophesied of floods.

@lionr1470 Ай бұрын

God created an infinite system of water on earth and not a drop is lost. From the oceans comes the rain, and the streams and rivers formed by the rain flow back to it again and again.

@lionr1470 Ай бұрын

@militant_pacifist GOD gave us brain and hands to fix things the right way fix the infrastructures and let governments stop lying that there is no enough water on the planet Oops I remembered they can't not lie.

@torturedsoul8066 Ай бұрын

It's evidence that Deutschlanders are simply not drinking enough bier.

@gerhardma4687 Ай бұрын

Humanity, emotional intelligence or simply intelligence have completely passed you by and education has also failed. What kind of people are there!!!

@user-kf4oq5om1s Ай бұрын

Stop geo engeneering, H.a.a.r.p

@user-bl6gx1zu3j Ай бұрын

Trumps Hometown.

@JoeyBlogs007 Ай бұрын

Russian spy cloud seeding ???

@MariaMartinez-researcher Ай бұрын

Ever heard of climate change?

@WeldersOfJabulon Ай бұрын

@@MariaMartinez-researcher Yes, it's Putin's.

@keskinmesut3249 Ай бұрын

Die Tränen der unschuldigen Palästinenser!!!

@JG-xi4tu Ай бұрын

Also macht deren Gott lieber regen in Deutschland anstatt sie zu schützen? Aber klar doch.

@eeveecat2158 Ай бұрын

Revelations Biblical

@halberderdier8073 Ай бұрын

Post an der falschen Stelle.

@swiftmind9700 Ай бұрын

Nein. Es ist nicht

@JG-xi4tu Ай бұрын

Und warum sollten diese Tränen auf Deutschland fallen? Das ergibt überhaupt keinen Sinn.

@jeffreyk8875 Ай бұрын

Pray to Allah. Perhaps he can help you.

@WeldersOfJabulon Ай бұрын

Ja. The salami squad. 😇

@19dalton81 Ай бұрын

How Alli could help?

@gerhardma4687 Ай бұрын

Humanity, emotional intelligence or simply intelligence have completely passed you by and education has also failed. What kind of people are there!!!

@jeffreyk8875 Ай бұрын

@@gerhardma4687 Du kannst mich mal!

@michaelasamoah2390 Ай бұрын

This is also Russian doing lol

@bojanm986 Ай бұрын

many here were gloating when Orenburg was flooded a month ago...

@Simfuchsia Ай бұрын

@@bojanm986Not really. Just Your narrative

@bojanm986 Ай бұрын

@@Simfuchsia one of the comments: "Putin: what this is not flooding - it's special irrigation operation". 315 likes. So, no it's not my narrative, it's the real face of western character.

@WeldersOfJabulon Ай бұрын

Putin's marks all over the mud.

@gerhardma4687 Ай бұрын

Humanity, emotional intelligence or simply intelligence have completely passed you by and education has also failed. What kind of people are there!!!

@edinbecirovic1902 Ай бұрын

That because Germany help israel

@BettinaMaurer-cf3dx Ай бұрын

Are you serious? Such a silly comment! Unbelievable

@saba1030 Ай бұрын

Ahhh yess 🙄 Apart from, that Germany is paying € 250 million per year to Gaza/Palestinians and supporting Palestinians with food, humanitarian aid, medicine etc...

@ankee.3259 Ай бұрын

Wenn du nichts intelligentes sagen kannst dann halt den Mund.

@gerhardma4687 Ай бұрын

Humanity, emotional intelligence or simply intelligence have completely passed you by and education has also failed. What kind of people are there!!!