“This was flooding that surpassed our imagination when you see the destruction it wrought” despite last week’s forecasts of torrential downpours, Merkel insisted. “We have a very good warning system,” she said as a few people in the crowd whistled in derision. After the flood disaster, Angela Merkel expresses her condolences to those affected and promises swift financial support. As the scale of the flood disaster became clearer, questions mounted about whether enough was done to warn residents ahead of time. “In the worst flood disaster in nearly 60 years in Germany, with at least 165 deaths, disaster management failed to warn citizens,” wrote Bild newspaper in a damning report.

Source: The Local July 20, 2021 14:15 UTC