The situation in Germany's #Saarland region right now is giving me a strong deja vu from three years ago, when another hilly area experienced unusually heavy rainfall that lead to devastating floods. I really hope we don't see the same kind of disaster happen as we did in the Ahrtal 2021. At least residents and emergency services should be sensitized to what could happen.
Some streams in southwestern Germany are already seeing water levels that occur once in a hundred years. Downstream things are getting really dicey along the Saar and Mosel.
"A partnership between #NASA and the French space agency, the satellite is poised to help improve forecasts of where and when #flooding will occur in Earth’s rivers, lakes, and reservoirs."
"The city of 1.3 million inhabitants has been almost totally cut off by the floods.
An estimated 80% of its population do not have access to running water after five of the city's six water treatment plants ceased working." #Brazil#disaster#PortoAlegre#flooding
"Three weeks after one of #Brazil’s worst-ever floods hit its southernmost state, killing 155 people and forcing 540,000 from their homes, experts have warned that water levels will take at least another two weeks to drop.
“These rains were typical of the climate crisis: very intense, with a large volume of water concentrated in a short period”, said Anderson Ruhoff"