A man walk on a road amid destroyed houses after the floods caused major damage in Schuld near Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, western Germany, on July 16, 2021 (CHRISTOF STACHE / AFP)
SCHULD, Germany (AFP) Aware that a storm was brewing, Cornelia Schloesser quickly installed a water pump in the cellar of her bakery.
But “within minutes, a wave was in the house” and she lost the business her family had held for a century in Schuld, a village in flood-hit western Germany that now looks like a battlefield.
“The oven is just junk now,” she said as she examined the extent of the damage from torrents of water unleashed in a violent storm overnight Wednesday, killing more than 100 people in two western German regions.
Like a war zone : stunned Germans count cost of floods
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Like a war zone : Stunned Germans count cost of floods
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