BAnd Prime Minister Angela Merkel (CDU) Announced quick help during their visit to the flood-hit areas in Rhineland-Palatinate. “We support you, the federal and state,” she said in Adenau in the Ahrweiler district on Sunday. The federal government and state governments will work together to “step by step restore order to the world in this beautiful region.”
Merkel said that she came to the scene to get a surreal, “ghost-like image” of a real photo. Merkel assured Merkel: “The German language knows almost nothing about the damage suffered here.” On Wednesday, the federal government will pass a rapid assistance, mid-term mission and infrastructure restoration plan. This is a matter of quick action, but perseverance.
The general reason Mainz Prime Minister Marudrell and Rhineland-Palatinate Interior Minister Roger Levinz (SPD) accompanied him. Dreyer thanked the principal for visiting the disaster area and thanked the many rescuers for their efforts. She expressed deep sympathy to the families of the 112 victims. She still remembers about 30 people missing, 670 people injured in the hospital, and many others who were traumatized. “Our country has been shaken,” Dreyer said.
Mayor Schuld Helmut Lussi expects to cause very large losses. There are more than 700 residents in this village alone, and an expert came up with a preliminary estimate of 31 to 48 million euros. Many homeowners do not have natural disaster insurance. In the press statement, Lucy was overwhelmed by his emotions and almost shed tears.
Even on the fourth day after the flood disaster, mud, debris and dirt can still be seen in the area. The debris piled up, several meters high. It will take weeks and months to eliminate the visible consequences of this disaster. In the Ahrweiler region of Rhineland-Palatinate alone, at least 110 people were killed in floods. On Sunday, rescuers were also looking for victims in partially completely destroyed villages-also with the help of aerial photos taken from a helicopter. The Koblenz police report said that people are worried that the death toll will continue to rise.
“They can’t keep up with the dead”
The small town of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler is also like rubble. The excavator lifted the car stuck in the alley, and tables, chairs and other destroyed household items were stacked in front of the house. Local residents such as Thomas Bähr shoveled dirt out of their houses. “We just bought it,” said the owner of the 300-year-old house.
Peter Geller lives next to the 13th century city wall. A dead woman was washed ashore in his yard. A few hours later, panicked rescuers came to pick up the body. “They can’t keep up with the dead,” Geller reported on Saturday. Local resident Karl-Heinz Conradt confirmed from five acquaintances that they were dead.
Electricity and telephone networks are still interrupted in many places on SundayThe police warned that exposed wires would put people in danger. A large number of roads are impassable.
In view of the huge destruction and many personal fates, Rhineland-Palatinate is expanding the scope of its psychosocial support. Social Affairs Minister Alexander Schweitzer explained: “We don’t want people who mourn a person due to a catastrophic storm, who are in need of survival, or who have lost all their property under the force of nature, stay alone. (Social Democratic Party), Victim Protection Officer Detlef Placzek and Education Minister Stefanie Hubig (SPD).
In the tragedy, it seems hard to imagine that life will return to normal soon. “Our village will never be the same as before,” Pastor Michael Schaefer said in Adenau in the Eifel town at the beginning of Mass on Sunday. Fortunately, no one there was to mourn.
At least 46 people died in North Rhine-Westphalia
In North Rhine-Westphalia, there seems to be a long way to go back to normal. Here, the big cleanup is also in full swing. On Saturday, the cars on Federal Highway 265 were crowded between and under the trucks like huge floats. The Bundeswehr helped clean up the tanks. Mayor Carolin Weitzel reported that in the city of Erftstadt, which has 50,000 residents, 6,000 people were directly affected by the disaster.CDU) on Saturday. The infrastructure of the city must be rebuilt.
As of Sunday afternoon, 46 people have been killed in floods throughout North Rhine-Westphalia. Many people are still looking for their missing relatives. The situation in the Erftstadt-Blessem area is particularly tense, where experts are checking the edges of the landslide. Due to the flood, a huge crater was formed there, and at least three residential buildings and part of the historic castle collapsed. Steinbachtalsperre, threatened by rupture, continued to worry experts on Sunday.
