Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Flood Update

 There's still a lot of flood chatter going on.

Presently, via the afternoon news....they figure around 40,000 people in the Ahr valley region (NW Germany) are without water, electricity and natural gas.  Long term?  The way that the journalists put it....just getting streets back into operational shape in some of these villages....may take three to four months.  The natural gas lines?  Journalists are being told six months minimum of work required.  

Talk of more Covid 'out-breaks'?  This came up via public TV (ARD) today.  Lot of physical work taking place....without masks.

Drinking water?  That got brought up as well, and in several villages....they won't have clean drinking water for the rest of 2021.  

Missing people still?  This is still a top three problem and without cell-towers in these locations....it's hard to call folks and get a confirmation on where they are presently.  

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