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came, no one was prepared. from germany to belgium, the pictures taken by locals give a sense of how fast the waters were sweeping away everything in their path. by friday morning, the scale of the devastation was becoming clear. in the belgium village people returning to what was left of their homes and livelilivelihoo. this family's wine shop engulfed in mud. has never seen anything like it before. in the nearby town, french military personnel and equipment have been brought in as part of what is now an international rescue effort. as you can see, the water here really rose quite high. what the locals who we've been speaking to have told us many still traps in their homes now running out of food and water, when the flash flood came, it was a mighty correy torrent tha