My thought with everyone in Central Europe. I lived in Opole, Poland from 1993 to 1995. I taught English at the University of Opole under a program similar to the peace corps (but private). The journalist doing the report from Poland Owidiusz Niceja is the son of two of my former students. Very proud of this young man. The 1997 flood was horrific and affected friends of mine. I fear this may be worse for the area.
Flooding sucks. Had my basement flood twoce in 15 years very shocking how little insurance actually covers. My best wishes to those effected, and ny deepest condolences to any who have lost loved ones from this.
@@UCiWrMgES50tlUhV3l6NqjNA ah yes, like half of this weeks news we're about Israeli forces doing that thing with walkie talkies in Lebanon but tooootaaally nobody talks about Middle East... yeah nooobooodyyyy... Also I love how for some reason people act shocked on how an European broadcasting company talks more about, you know... Europe? Do europeans go to Yemeni or Palestinian channels and complain about not talking about Poland or Ukraine enough?
We were warning about exactly these situations in the 80s when I was at University - nothing was ever done. Thatcher stated, she would believe it when she see's it....well, here you are...too late.
At least in the czech region I live in flood defences were bulid (and save a lot of houses these past few days or at least gave people more time to evacuate) and us voluntarly firefighters are finally trained on what exactly to do and we were given more equipment to help us. Is it enough, clearly no as we still lost some pople but you cant say nothing was done as we can see how well flood defences work. Most danger the people put themself to from my experience as a voluntary firefighter is stupidity (people went to take selfies, woman went for a svim, man jump of the bridge to go for a svim, some people went paddleboarding, surfing-so please if you are in an area with floods do not do any of this)
@@wensdyy6466 just to be clear, I meant that politicians have done nothing to combat climate change. I also live in Czech, and have been impressed with the response, better than p
CheKia, not Chechnia!!!!!!! - That's a Russian state - get your pronunciation correct DW, it could be important! Yeseniky, not jesenik, and so on. Google it guys, or ask a local?
DW, Romania is being severely affected by the floods, yet in your entire 20-minute report, you dedicated only 20 seconds to this issue. With 6 people dead and 5,000 homes affected, is this not newsworthy to you??? I’m disappointed and will no longer follow your news coverage
I mean....there was likely a lot of natural disaster around the region not covered. It's not like we didn't understand that whole continent is being hit with a dangerous situation.
Well there are certainly parts of my state that are more prone to flash flooding, as it happens often with any heavy rain. I don't think it's a silly question.
@alexbreyer6921 Rule of thumb is, if any four-year old familiar with the fact that rivers flow in some places and not others as well as that earth is not stuck on one perfectly level elevation all the way across, knows the answer to your question, chances are, the question is in fact more than a little silly.
But all those rivers. Danube Wein Elbe Seinne Volga. All those Rivers. Plus now with climate change. What else can be expected. Then the. Alps are melting. What so us expect
Czech Republic as known as Chechen? The Czech Republic is also known as Czechia in English! Doh! Phil, you only have one job to do, read the bloody teleprompter properly!
@@serebii666 I think he means the rising of street level in late middle ages. There are cellars in Old Town today that were ground floors of the houses in 1100 or so.
@@lenkamaresova4116 Perhaps, but in that case that is a false interpretation. The Romanesque houses of Prague's Old town had their ground floors intentionally built into the ground, sometimes as deep as 2m under street level. These were multi-storey buildings and are hypothesized by archeologists and architecture historians to have been typologically inherited from the typical Slavic Pit-house, that characterized the urbanism of Northern Europe between the 5-12th centuries. By building partly underground, and under the frost layer, these houses would have stable 15 degree temperature year round. It's frankly ridiculous to assume such catastrophic mud damage, because there would be no possibility for these structures to survive such intense forces. If flooding was that consistently intense, Prague would have long been abandoned almost as soon as it had been founded. Even Rome's notorious Tiber floods never caused that much buildup, and that is a city that is three times as old. Prague's street level was raised in the late 19th century, when it built the large embankment systems, emulating by London's Victoria Embankment. Before then the banks of the river were similar to the state of the Islands today, they gently sloped into the river, where people went to wash clothes and later light industry, tanneries and chemical plants were established. Like seriously, we still have the building of the Rotunda of the Finding of the Holy Cross, built in 1125, that is less that 50m from the River, and it's elevation is only about 30cm below the current street.
Very tragic, so sorry for the victims.... but shouldn't have called the storm "Boris"; he wreaked enough havoc over us in the UK for several years, so enabling him to storm across Europe was bound to end badly
This is very tragic, but so many of these ancient cities are built on rivers or near Other waterways. The extreme weather, from droughts to floods, is a sign of climate change. I live on the U.S. west coast where wildfires are common.
Extreme weather is not a sign of climate change. Extreme weather has always been with us. Sadly we have this ting called the mainstream media that gets hysteria, over everything. They make things a lot worse.
@@zbynekIIno, the metereologist from London confirmed is a record flood. The last in 1997 was not like this one. It is a matter of intensity and frequence. In the area this is the secon flood this year. I think scientists have been clear enough on this
We are spending billions of dollars on searching life on Mars and other planets in our solar system. We spending billions on Ukraine war and Trillion on world defense. But we don't have enough money to spend on our planet to make it Green.
Already done, that is exactly how the Czechs controlled the floods in most areas this time around - newly constructed flood reservoirs. Furthermore, the large man-made fishponds in southern Bohemia were able to absorb huge amounts of water and control its flow. Try doing some basic research before making dumb comments!
@@zbynekII Rubbish - that's EXACTLY what we want, along with controlled flooding of fields. Stop building in the floodplain. Get your facts right and stop trying to be a right-wing warrior!
@ageofmagnetizm these flood waters may not be useful later, due to how many elements it has pulled over that cannot be purified for human or crops usage. The area had a deadly flood in 1997, and it was prepared somewhat with dams and current diversions, but it was 6 months rain in a 38 hour window... Places like Wroclaw are naturally prone to flooding due to their basin configuration, and others had just undergone a horribly hot summer or a drought. Please use your fingers to google up answers, not for any purpose that includes typing baseless, uninformed ₪¤₪$€₪$€.
Hello Africa! We in Europe have been collecting and sending money to Africa for more than 70 years. Now we need a little help. Please organize collections for flood victims in Europe - and donate to the European red cross. Thanking you in advance.
It looks very very expensive.😱 But at least the number of casualties are still relatively low. How does it compare to heat waves and fires?. How many heat related deaths was there in the EU this sommer? Seems like flods and fires can be very expensive but heat is more deadly 🤷♂.
That's for now, the aftermath of such a large amount of countries affected. it's not even over yet for them and this is a huge defense liability with Putin licking his chops 😢
It certainly is deadly, but exact numbers are anyone's creative playground. A death certificate usually says merely "kidney failure" or "arterial thromboembolism" or something like it; direct references to heat as in "heat stroke" must be quite rare. Year-to-year and week-to-week comparisons may give credible estimates, but there may be other contributing factors.
@@jmi5969 There's a WHO concept of excess deaths, where you take the average death count for a given month over a couple of years and then look at the diff for this year, you could probably do something like this to get a heat-death excess. It was widely used during covid to not depend on diagnosis, since it was a big bottleneck.
@@Blaoerry Precisely. The covid case was quite straightforward because the previous years were fairly benign and the indirect factors (like consequences of lockdown or overloaded hospitals) were ultimately blamed on covid too. In 2024 it's not so easy
While the dutch are very experienced with sea water flooding, they do not have to deal with floods caused by an excess of rainfall and the resulting rise of rivers and groundwater on a daily basis, so their expertise might not be what is necessarily needed in this situation
@@InschrifterOfficial nobody has to deal with rising rivers and groundwater on a daily basis. The rivers in the Nederlands are greatly affected by the rainfall in Germany and that has to be dealt with doesn't it?
@@edwardbernthal160 My point was, they are good at dealing with floods from the sea. Central Europe is dealing with a different kind of flooding so that expertise is only partially useful.
Vegetation+wetlands+lakes+ponds important at/near urban areas. Internet: Helsinki is planting trees to prepare for floods, heatwaves and other effects of climate crisis
Helsinki is flat as a pancake. Most of this water has flown down from forested mountains into narrow walleys, there is only so much you can do for this amount of water.
So "NOW" there is a concern about climate change. It is obvious that this not normal. Now people who are already fighting inflation, lost of jobs, and, health issues they now have been given a homeless status. She says it normal. Yet express that more of these event are coming. Where will the people go? Will there countries come to the rescue?
She talks about 'flood defences'. Flood defences simply attempt to send the massive amount of water downstream and let people downstream deal with it. But when everyone is attempting to shift the burden downstream the water simply builds higher and higher.
I can't help but wonder if these journalists are mentally impaired, after repeatedly asking the same dumb questions over the last decade, like "Could this be related to man-made climate change?"
@@stevendefehr4393 Some say God is the mastermind of natural calamity's Other opinions are from fools who die one day some way or other Rev 9:6 many rather die during this obviously violent & unusual moment on Jesus' created home for us.
The flooding is also exacerbated by the preceding extraordinary heatwave with temperatures of over 30 ° C for more than 6 weeks, which caused droughts and dried soils that could not absorb water at the start of the rain on Friday. There would still have been flooding but probably less sudden and possibly even less severe. Vienna took historic infrastructure measures in the 70s and 80s of the 20th century by building a large flood security system within city limits ("Donauinsel") which protects the city areas along the main river arm. Also, the Kamp River runs into the Danube River north of Vienna and does not affect the stricken flood areas in Eastern Europe. Poor reporting by DW,
Warnings were issued, officials took actions, BUT you can do just as much as you can. You can evacuate and put up barriers but you can not move houses.
Slovak reporter seems to missed the significance of the Gabcikovo Dam system in enabling flood levels in Vienna, Bratislava and downstream- in particular Budapest to be controlled. Without it there is no doubt southern Slovakia would be underwater ( as was the case in 1954 and 1965) which floods prompted the development of the Gabcikovo/ Nagymaros system. Three times now in the last 25 years this enormous system has managed/ mitigated flooding up stream and downstream. The devastation in the highlands of Austria, Czechia, Poland and Romania are unparalleled in recent history truly a regional catastrophe
In the Philippines and others South East Asian Country and Japan installed River Monitoring Flood Waters so the community can Prepare for the worst case scenarios
Build reservoirs and then create cement lined arroyos to capture and channel the flood waters to the reservoirs. Then you can use the water during periods of drought.
You'd think these countries would have mastered flood mitigation after thousands of years since this happens every few decades. Guess it's cheaper to rebuild.
Where would they go? But I agree that we should consider the flooding more in our building construction and city planning. We have some measures in place, but it is not enough.
The streets are couple of meters higher then they used to be. If q didn’t know- climate change is not something the Hungarian empire or the Holy Roman Empire had to deal with…
15 killed with this flooding? It's about the same that get killed of street accidents in Germany every day ! It's tragic, but don't get fooled just by numbers
We have reached the + 1.5 b° Celsius nations have agreed to in Paris. Based on this agreement, we shouldn't add any more CO 2. Voters in Germany and elsewhere in Europe are obviously not interested in this topic. So, we can expect much worse floods in the future. We have decided on this, and we get wat we wanted.
@@braxxian "long time climate cycles"? Do you think that a flood in the eighteenth century bears any resemblance to to a flood in 2024? So many fields and trees and green spaces that would have helped absorb water have disappeared and more concrete and building has sprung up. Rivers have been artificially straightened, nature has been tampered with.
Upland re-afforestation is essential to help modify and regulate pulsatile run-off and reduce soil erosion and increased deposition of sediments in lowland rivers. Too many water catchment areas have been subject to deforestation and also over-grazing by livestock such as sheep etc. Additionally, in recent years, due to increased temperatures much tree cover has been lost to wildfires
Are some parts of Europe more prone to flooding? what a nice title prone to... wars( Ukr is arriving at the 3rd year and the EU still continue financing ) carbon ,oil,gas, the USA Ns pipelines destruction do u know what all these things do to our planet ? do u know the pipeline destruction was the biggest methane spew ever ? ..i got a final question Are some parts of Europe more prone to flooding?
It's possible condinsation can cause by engines that apperate in MANGER war .along with various substances that cause ran to funnel in a small arear like that FLOODING in uroupe.
We all salute Democrats climate change plans in USA and strongly condemn right wing thugs who are small minded where their actions killed so many again.
I study atmospheric physics and the reason why the days of rain is becoming more common in news media mama is because the polar jet stream is slowing. As the jet stream flows at loses its resistive strength against the influence of high and low pressure fronts. The polar jet stream is now wrapping around high and low pressure fronts when 15 to 20 years ago that behavior would never occur in certain cases, a low pressure front will stall it will not move across the land surface and they will release all of its moisture in one location only this is becoming more frequent so everybody here is reading this what is causing the the polar jet stream to slow play across the northern hemisphere? That is caused by the shrinkage of the Arctic ice sheets that's exposing more open ocean and more land to solar radiation. It's causing the Arctic to warm at 2 to 3 times faster than the rest of the Southern latitudes in the northern hemisphere this is causing the polar jet stream is slow and it's causing the highly cell circulation bands to slow their circulation also the polar jet streams can wrap around high pressure zones and cause an Omega heat wrap Heatwave and cause a deadly heat that will kill people the warming northern hemisphere is caused by the burning of fossil fuels releasing greenhouse gases in this case carbon dioxide. My research is obtain from several climate scientists including Jennifer Francis from the Woods Hole research laboratory, Dr Ed McMahon from Penn State University. For the last decade I've been monitoring Global Land and Sea surface temperatures and what has been occurring in last decade is nothing short of shocking observing and watching heat waves increasing across continents and watching AS Global oceans continue to warm at a substantial rate of acceleration
Climate change deniers will argue that the seas aren't rising as forecast. When you look at how much rain is being dumped on every continent in turn I think it's fair to say that the missing sea rises have come to the land instead.
My thought with everyone in Central Europe. I lived in Opole, Poland from 1993 to 1995. I taught English at the University of Opole under a program similar to the peace corps (but private). The journalist doing the report from Poland Owidiusz Niceja is the son of two of my former students. Very proud of this young man. The 1997 flood was horrific and affected friends of mine. I fear this may be worse for the area.
Wonderful
the Czech Republic also known as... WHAT?
Jeez...
haha agreed
as Czechia
And then a reporter from “Bratislavia”
Tusk is lier can be judged by State Tribunals
...and why is Luxembourg a country?
How horrible! So sorry for everyones suffering in this whole region. Beautiful area😢
its only the beginning of more Climat outrage , world wide !!!! be prepared wherever u are
My heartfelt sympathy to you and yours at this sad time.
Best of luck & prayers to all the wonderful people affected by this disaster. UK
Stop the wars and save this planet
These are events that happen periodically. They have happened before amd will happen again. It's cycle that the Earth goes through.
Bring it up with Putin. I'm sure he'll stop because you told him to.
@MikeBenko : Stop the war's ,all war's not just one
NATO forced the war in Ukraine. Not Putin. Wake up. @@MikeBenko
Ask Russia to do so. It is totally up to Russia.
Flooding sucks. Had my basement flood twoce in 15 years very shocking how little insurance actually covers.
My best wishes to those effected, and ny deepest condolences to any who have lost loved ones from this.
how many people have died in yemen and palestine? nobody seems to want to talk about that.
@@UCiWrMgES50tlUhV3l6NqjNA thats another subject that is purposefully repressed by Corrupt Mass
@@UCiWrMgES50tlUhV3l6NqjNA ah yes, like half of this weeks news we're about Israeli forces doing that thing with walkie talkies in Lebanon but tooootaaally nobody talks about Middle East... yeah nooobooodyyyy...
Also I love how for some reason people act shocked on how an European broadcasting company talks more about, you know... Europe? Do europeans go to Yemeni or Palestinian channels and complain about not talking about Poland or Ukraine enough?
We were warning about exactly these situations in the 80s when I was at University - nothing was ever done. Thatcher stated, she would believe it when she see's it....well, here you are...too late.
I suggest you study long time climate cycles. You will see this is nothing new. It’s just the mainstream media being hysterical like they always are.
This kind of flooding was in central Europe almost 30 years ago. And more regional was there 20 years ago. This is nothing new to the region.
At least in the czech region I live in flood defences were bulid (and save a lot of houses these past few days or at least gave people more time to evacuate) and us voluntarly firefighters are finally trained on what exactly to do and we were given more equipment to help us. Is it enough, clearly no as we still lost some pople but you cant say nothing was done as we can see how well flood defences work. Most danger the people put themself to from my experience as a voluntary firefighter is stupidity (people went to take selfies, woman went for a svim, man jump of the bridge to go for a svim, some people went paddleboarding, surfing-so please if you are in an area with floods do not do any of this)
@@wensdyy6466 just to be clear, I meant that politicians have done nothing to combat climate change. I also live in Czech, and have been impressed with the response, better than p
Yeah, that wasn't a very intelligent response from Thatcher...when you see it, it's already too late!
Romania is on the European map too, folks.
@@slawomirczajkowski9481 Like your country doesn't have them 😂
Congratulations, Romania is part of the garden, according to the EU council
Praying for everyone affected 🙏
Amen 🙏😢❤
Yes, water flows downhill not uphill.
And flooding is upward.
CheKia, not Chechnia!!!!!!! - That's a Russian state - get your pronunciation correct DW, it could be important! Yeseniky, not jesenik, and so on. Google it guys, or ask a local?
It should have just stayed as the Czech Republic
Lol😂
@@therealavolpeno one I know here in Prague says Czechia.
@@stevemcgowen
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I understand, Russia could claim it as theirs
We were warning about exactly these situations in the 80s when I was at University
DW, Romania is being severely affected by the floods, yet in your entire 20-minute report, you dedicated only 20 seconds to this issue. With 6 people dead and 5,000 homes affected, is this not newsworthy to you??? I’m disappointed and will no longer follow your news coverage
Click on another video
I mean....there was likely a lot of natural disaster around the region not covered. It's not like we didn't understand that whole continent is being hit with a dangerous situation.
😂😂 Romania per Inghilterra e peggio di Africa. In Africa ci sono soldi ,usa la testa...
_Are some parts of Europe more prone to flooding?_
Are you people being freaking serious now?
Well there are certainly parts of my state that are more prone to flash flooding, as it happens often with any heavy rain. I don't think it's a silly question.
@alexbreyer6921 Rule of thumb is, if any four-year old familiar with the fact that rivers flow in some places and not others as well as that earth is not stuck on one perfectly level elevation all the way across, knows the answer to your question, chances are, the question is in fact more than a little silly.
Nope , its true
But all those rivers. Danube Wein Elbe Seinne Volga. All those Rivers. Plus now with climate change. What else can be expected. Then the. Alps are melting. What so us expect
Czech Republic as known as Chechen? The Czech Republic is also known as Czechia in English! Doh! Phil, you only have one job to do, read the bloody teleprompter properly!
Bratislavia got me too 😅
He is American . Hey he is one of few that highly educated who can read.
@@slawomirczajkowski9481 A Polack pointing fingers? 💩🖕
@@slawomirczajkowski9481 That's not an American accent. He's British.
I'm a native English-speaker and I've never once heard anyone call it "Czechia". Everyone still calls it the Czech Republic.
So sorry. Very sad.
Considering ancient Prague raised the street level because of the Vltava flooding, yes some areas are prone to flooding.
I wouldn't call the 1880s-1960s ancient.
@@serebii666 You may want to look at how old Prague is... I am guessing my local here is older than the country you live in.
@@stevemcgowen tartarian civilization. Tartarian buildings.
@@serebii666 I think he means the rising of street level in late middle ages. There are cellars in Old Town today that were ground floors of the houses in 1100 or so.
@@lenkamaresova4116 Perhaps, but in that case that is a false interpretation. The Romanesque houses of Prague's Old town had their ground floors intentionally built into the ground, sometimes as deep as 2m under street level. These were multi-storey buildings and are hypothesized by archeologists and architecture historians to have been typologically inherited from the typical Slavic Pit-house, that characterized the urbanism of Northern Europe between the 5-12th centuries. By building partly underground, and under the frost layer, these houses would have stable 15 degree temperature year round. It's frankly ridiculous to assume such catastrophic mud damage, because there would be no possibility for these structures to survive such intense forces. If flooding was that consistently intense, Prague would have long been abandoned almost as soon as it had been founded. Even Rome's notorious Tiber floods never caused that much buildup, and that is a city that is three times as old.
Prague's street level was raised in the late 19th century, when it built the large embankment systems, emulating by London's Victoria Embankment. Before then the banks of the river were similar to the state of the Islands today, they gently sloped into the river, where people went to wash clothes and later light industry, tanneries and chemical plants were established. Like seriously, we still have the building of the Rotunda of the Finding of the Holy Cross, built in 1125, that is less that 50m from the River, and it's elevation is only about 30cm below the current street.
This will be happening every year now I'm afraid, the rains will come in from the oceans that is purging it's waters due to heat.
What about Romania? 😢
I just watched a report on Romania on another news outlet, can't say which 1 but it's there if u need it, I hope you have no1 affected by it. uk
Its sad how we are waging wars against each other. When we have enough to deal with already with the natural disasters.
Sorry, but No! Putin needs to be stopped! Full stop.
This is NOT a "natural" disaster. These are the consequences of the ongoing climate catastrophe. It's entirely man-made.
@@Catnyp2828u better get a move on 😂
Very tragic, so sorry for the victims.... but shouldn't have called the storm "Boris"; he wreaked enough havoc over us in the UK for several years, so enabling him to storm across Europe was bound to end badly
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All these countries are in Central Europe. Eastern Europe is Russia.
When will you learn that in England? You are poor at learning.
Przecież mówią wschodnia tylko przez Rumunię. Najzupełniej prawidłowo. Możesz więc skasować ten głupi komentarz.
🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱sending love to all my people in Polska
Building cities on river banks assumes the risk.
This is very tragic, but so many of these ancient cities are built on rivers or near Other waterways. The extreme weather, from droughts to floods, is a sign of climate change. I live on the U.S. west coast where wildfires are common.
Actualy not, records show that such floods are happening every decade or two since middle ages.
Extreme weather is not a sign of climate change. Extreme weather has always been with us. Sadly we have this ting called the mainstream media that gets hysteria, over everything. They make things a lot worse.
@@zbynekIIno, the metereologist from London confirmed is a record flood. The last in 1997 was not like this one. It is a matter of intensity and frequence. In the area this is the secon flood this year. I think scientists have been clear enough on this
It’s just the beginning! 😱
15 is not "dozens".
How is this a question? It's not like Europe has just cropped up out of the ground last week.
This is so heartbreaking 😡
Stop wars and fight climate change, we can not afford both Wars.
US military industrial complex wants wars and wars Nothing but wars.
No nation has killed more people then US since world war 2.
We are spending billions of dollars on searching life on Mars and other planets in our solar system.
We spending billions on Ukraine war and Trillion on world defense.
But we don't have enough money to spend on our planet to make it Green.
That is why the rich are making bases on Mars
Dear reporter, the second syllable in the word Czechia is pronounced "kia".
Even the thumbnail pic of the helicopter looks shocked and sad!!
That's a huge microphone. Stay safe Europe good luck
This was informative. Best wishes to all those experiencing this flooding.
Building of large reservoirs where excess of water will be channeled and used later in dry periods ??? 🐞
Thing is that your typical "save the planet" parties do not want that and keep suing for decades..
Already done, that is exactly how the Czechs controlled the floods in most areas this time around - newly constructed flood reservoirs. Furthermore, the large man-made fishponds in southern Bohemia were able to absorb huge amounts of water and control its flow. Try doing some basic research before making dumb comments!
@@zbynekII Rubbish - that's EXACTLY what we want, along with controlled flooding of fields. Stop building in the floodplain. Get your facts right and stop trying to be a right-wing warrior!
We've done that here in California before Europe could spell California.
@ageofmagnetizm these flood waters may not be useful later, due to how many elements it has pulled over that cannot be purified for human or crops usage.
The area had a deadly flood in 1997, and it was prepared somewhat with dams and current diversions, but it was 6 months rain in a 38 hour window...
Places like Wroclaw are naturally prone to flooding due to their basin configuration, and others had just undergone a horribly hot summer or a drought.
Please use your fingers to google up answers, not for any purpose that includes typing baseless, uninformed ₪¤₪$€₪$€.
Tragic. As well as consequences, as food prices will go up again...
Ukraine SHOULD help Poland . 🇵🇱
And the end is not yet!!!
REAL REAL SOON, "YOU GOD DAMN ZOMBIE"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I suggest more TAXES a lot more.
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Hello Africa!
We in Europe have been collecting and sending money to Africa for more than 70 years. Now we need a little help. Please organize collections for flood victims in Europe - and donate to the European red cross.
Thanking you in advance.
😂😂😂Aspetta e spera.
It’s very sad but this will pass 😢
Praying 🙏
It looks very very expensive.😱
But at least the number of casualties are still relatively low.
How does it compare to heat waves and fires?. How many heat related deaths was there in the EU this sommer?
Seems like flods and fires can be very expensive but heat is more deadly 🤷♂.
That's for now, the aftermath of such a large amount of countries affected. it's not even over yet for them and this is a huge defense liability with Putin licking his chops 😢
It certainly is deadly, but exact numbers are anyone's creative playground. A death certificate usually says merely "kidney failure" or "arterial thromboembolism" or something like it; direct references to heat as in "heat stroke" must be quite rare. Year-to-year and week-to-week comparisons may give credible estimates, but there may be other contributing factors.
@@jmi5969 There's a WHO concept of excess deaths, where you take the average death count for a given month over a couple of years and then look at the diff for this year, you could probably do something like this to get a heat-death excess. It was widely used during covid to not depend on diagnosis, since it was a big bottleneck.
@@Blaoerry Precisely. The covid case was quite straightforward because the previous years were fairly benign and the indirect factors (like consequences of lockdown or overloaded hospitals) were ultimately blamed on covid too. In 2024 it's not so easy
Billion dollar for war but forget to prevent the flood
Contact the Dutch for help
a few dams kinda reservoir in Poland have already broken, because of draught there is a higher risk .You need to mow grass to keep it stronger
While the dutch are very experienced with sea water flooding, they do not have to deal with floods caused by an excess of rainfall and the resulting rise of rivers and groundwater on a daily basis, so their expertise might not be what is necessarily needed in this situation
@@InschrifterOfficial nobody has to deal with rising rivers and groundwater on a daily basis. The rivers in the Nederlands are greatly affected by the rainfall in Germany and that has to be dealt with doesn't it?
@@edwardbernthal160 My point was, they are good at dealing with floods from the sea. Central Europe is dealing with a different kind of flooding so that expertise is only partially useful.
The Netherlands are flat. This area is not. Big difference in how to manage flooding.
Vegetation+wetlands+lakes+ponds important at/near urban areas. Internet: Helsinki is planting trees to prepare for floods, heatwaves and other effects of climate crisis
Helsinki is flat as a pancake. Most of this water has flown down from forested mountains into narrow walleys, there is only so much you can do for this amount of water.
So "NOW" there is a concern about climate change. It is obvious that this not normal. Now people who are already fighting inflation, lost of jobs, and, health issues they now have been given a homeless status. She says it normal. Yet express that more of these event are coming. Where will the people go? Will there countries come to the rescue?
don't worry, governments will forget about this soon enough
She talks about 'flood defences'. Flood defences simply attempt to send the massive amount of water downstream and let people downstream deal with it. But when everyone is attempting to shift the burden downstream the water simply builds higher and higher.
Only worsening,not worst.
DW News, cool video it was really good
Are EUROPE spraying clouds like australia
Governments in the world should take action learning from weather history of the country they are governing.
Praying for people's safety🙏
Also known as chechnya 😢... oh boy!
I can't help but wonder if these journalists are mentally impaired, after repeatedly asking the same dumb questions over the last decade, like "Could this be related to man-made climate change?"
Soon in DW: Czechia also known as Chikenya.
Chiuaua
Nobody can blame India here😂😂
Or China.
Or trump 😅
@@stevendefehr4393 Or Biden
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Some say God is the mastermind of natural calamity's
Other opinions are from fools who die one day some way or other
Rev 9:6 many rather die during this obviously violent & unusual moment on Jesus' created home for us.
😢 keepsafe everyone.God speed to help and protect one another.
Bridges in western Poland are falling apart. Fortunately, bridges in eastern Poland are being reinforced for Abrams tanks.
The flooding is also exacerbated by the preceding extraordinary heatwave with temperatures of over 30 ° C for more than 6 weeks, which caused droughts and dried soils that could not absorb water at the start of the rain on Friday. There would still have been flooding but probably less sudden and possibly even less severe.
Vienna took historic infrastructure measures in the 70s and 80s of the 20th century by building a large flood security system within city limits ("Donauinsel") which protects the city areas along the main river arm.
Also, the Kamp River runs into the Danube River north of Vienna and does not affect the stricken flood areas in Eastern Europe. Poor reporting by DW,
Warnings were issued, officials took actions, BUT you can do just as much as you can. You can evacuate and put up barriers but you can not move houses.
Getting metal is like water boiler
Slovak reporter seems to missed the significance of the Gabcikovo Dam system in enabling flood levels in Vienna, Bratislava and downstream- in particular Budapest to be controlled. Without it there is no doubt southern Slovakia would be underwater ( as was the case in 1954 and 1965) which floods prompted the development of the Gabcikovo/ Nagymaros system. Three times now in the last 25 years this enormous system has managed/ mitigated flooding up stream and downstream. The devastation in the highlands of Austria, Czechia, Poland and Romania are unparalleled in recent history truly a regional catastrophe
Ik weet niet maar er zijn een aantal dammen die t water niet meer aan konden druk was te hoog vandaar de vloed golven,er moet meer dam controlle komen
Just the result of cloud seeding which was done heavily in Europe this year
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pipes need to be widened so they dont get overwhelmed
Down here in Australia we have so called “record floods” every 20 years or so. It’s called a cycle and has been happening since the dawn of time.
So does Europe.
DOZENS? It's bad enough as it is, why exxagerate even more :(
Excellent reporting!!!
In the Philippines and others South East Asian Country and Japan installed River Monitoring Flood Waters so the community can Prepare for the worst case scenarios
Build reservoirs and then create cement lined arroyos to capture and channel the flood waters to the reservoirs. Then you can use the water during periods of drought.
You'd think these countries would have mastered flood mitigation after thousands of years since this happens every few decades. Guess it's cheaper to rebuild.
Where would they go? But I agree that we should consider the flooding more in our building construction and city planning. We have some measures in place, but it is not enough.
The streets are couple of meters higher then they used to be. If q didn’t know- climate change is not something the Hungarian empire or the Holy Roman Empire had to deal with…
Have they ever been before?
Thoughts and prayers and prayers and thoughts and prayers and prayers and more thoughts.
15 killed with this flooding?
It's about the same that get killed of street accidents in Germany every day !
It's tragic, but don't get fooled just by numbers
We have reached the + 1.5 b° Celsius nations have agreed to in Paris. Based on this agreement, we shouldn't add any more CO 2. Voters in Germany and elsewhere in Europe are obviously not interested in this topic. So, we can expect much worse floods in the future. We have decided on this, and we get wat we wanted.
If you think this is anything new I suggest you study long time climate cycles. You will see that it is not.
@@braxxian "long time climate cycles"? Do you think that a flood in the eighteenth century bears any resemblance to to a flood in 2024? So many fields and trees and green spaces that would have helped absorb water have disappeared and more concrete and building has sprung up.
Rivers have been artificially straightened, nature has been tampered with.
So, should we stop breathing? 😂
@@braxxian You mean cycles during earth history when there existed no human beings?
@@xena2559 Ridiculing this doesn't make the process go away. It's astonishing that we don't even face the problem.
Did these floods happen 200 to 300 years ago?
what do you think? if you lived long enough, you'll see the weather gets worst
I remember this flowing as a child almost 30 years ago. This isn't anything new.
It’s about to get a lot worse really soon
Weather's condensation which is polutision may cause by engine that fly in the sky.
Maybe HAARP ….
Sending prayers 🙏🏽🙏🏽
Meanwhile in FL...hrm.
Upland re-afforestation is essential to help modify and regulate pulsatile run-off and reduce soil erosion and increased deposition of sediments in lowland rivers. Too many water catchment areas have been subject to deforestation and also over-grazing by livestock such as sheep etc. Additionally, in recent years, due to increased temperatures much tree cover has been lost to wildfires
But those floods in Czechia came from one of the most forested parts of the country, there is not much more that can be done in this regard.
Looks like those countries are not first countries as they claim.
Was goin to use the S word but as they say poo happens it’s Mother Nature at her finest praise the lord
It's terrible to say, but if we don't have climate crisis disasters in the West, the West with never truly deal with that climate crisis!
Severe drught and then severe floods are connected vessels.
Cricky
About the time.
Are some parts of Europe more prone to flooding? what a nice title prone to... wars( Ukr is arriving at the 3rd year and the EU still continue financing ) carbon ,oil,gas, the USA Ns pipelines destruction do u know what all these things do to our planet ? do u know the pipeline destruction was the biggest methane spew ever ? ..i got a final question Are some parts of Europe more prone to flooding?
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How dare Zelenssky keep asking money from EU?
It's possible condinsation can cause by engines that apperate in MANGER war .along with various substances that cause ran to funnel in a small arear like that FLOODING in uroupe.
Pouring down water like oil
We all salute Democrats climate change plans in USA and strongly condemn right wing thugs who are small minded where their actions killed so many again.
There is a huge difference between indian media and forign media this is reality which indian media not showing
I study atmospheric physics and the reason why the days of rain is becoming more common in news media mama is because the polar jet stream is slowing. As the jet stream flows at loses its resistive strength against the influence of high and low pressure fronts. The polar jet stream is now wrapping around high and low pressure fronts when 15 to 20 years ago that behavior would never occur in certain cases, a low pressure front will stall it will not move across the land surface and they will release all of its moisture in one location only this is becoming more frequent so everybody here is reading this what is causing the the polar jet stream to slow play across the northern hemisphere? That is caused by the shrinkage of the Arctic ice sheets that's exposing more open ocean and more land to solar radiation. It's causing the Arctic to warm at 2 to 3 times faster than the rest of the Southern latitudes in the northern hemisphere this is causing the polar jet stream is slow and it's causing the highly cell circulation bands to slow their circulation also the polar jet streams can wrap around high pressure zones and cause an Omega heat wrap Heatwave and cause a deadly heat that will kill people the warming northern hemisphere is caused by the burning of fossil fuels releasing greenhouse gases in this case carbon dioxide. My research is obtain from several climate scientists including Jennifer Francis from the Woods Hole research laboratory, Dr Ed McMahon from Penn State University. For the last decade I've been monitoring Global Land and Sea surface temperatures and what has been occurring in last decade is nothing short of shocking observing and watching heat waves increasing across continents and watching AS Global oceans continue to warm at a substantial rate of acceleration
horrors
how many people have died in yemen and palestine? nobody seems to want to talk about that.
Message to: Slovakia and Hungary not our flood.
We are too busy helping Ukraine, you know they ones with "not your war".
Now stop the war and look after your own country
Mind your own business
@@Catnyp2828 "mind your business" says the war mongering ukraine war supporter?
Climate change deniers will argue that the seas aren't rising as forecast. When you look at how much rain is being dumped on every continent in turn I think it's fair to say that the missing sea rises have come to the land instead.