[loremipsium]

The thing that was most disturbing was just how quickly the water rose. The Ahr, typically 10-15 ft wide and maybe about a feet deep, just enough to cool a beer crate during hot summer, went up to something like 23ft. I was joking with my mum on the phone late afternoon when they told me our camper got towed uphill as a precautionary measure. Not 2h later they had to be evacuated and the whole campsite was gone, as in does not exist anymore.

[rad_gruchalski]

Wasn't it similar in 2015 or 2016, can't remember anymore, when Müsch was under water and Herschbroich seen water coming? 2012 seen Ditscheid flooding and that is 400+ meters above the see level. That was just one day of very heavy rain.

What really gets me about the situation in that region is that when driving along the L257, between the road and tops to the right, direction Adenau, it's clearly visible that these plains are flood plains. Who allows to build there? It's the same in Monschau. On the other side of the bridge across the old town, there were new houses built maybe a meter higher than the river.