The small town is some 40 kilometres (25 miles) south of Ahrweiler in the volcanic Eifel region, the hardest-hit district in severe storms that have killed dozens of people in Germany since late Wednesday. The small Nette river that runs through the quaint town has burst its banks and residents spent much of Wednesday night awake, trying to keep the water at bay. It’s crazy,” said pensioner Annemarie Müller, 65, as she looked over her flooded garden and garage from her balcony. “We already had extreme floods in 2016, but these have been much worse,” said Uli Walsdorf, deputy head of the Mayen fire service. “My father-in-law is almost 80, he’s from Mayen and says he’s never experienced anything like this,” she said.

Source: The Local July 15, 2021 15:00 UTC