Spiegel wrote:Amid the worst flooding seen in half a millennium, the streets of Passau have been transformed into canals, full of soldiers evacuating pensioners in rubber boats. Though the water is receding, the worst is yet to come with the assessment of damages in the Bavarian town.
Inside Resch, a shoe shop in the center of Passau, the colorful spring collection floats in brown water, while next door Fritz Uhrmann sits in his third-floor apartment and refuses to be evacuated. He also wants the soldiers to leave. Since Monday evening they have been navigating Passau's streets, which now look more like canals, in rubber boats.
The flooding in recent days is the worst that this historic Bavarian city has seen in 500 years. But the full extent of the damage won't be clear until the water recedes. "The worst is yet to come," says Lt. Col. Thorsten Klapp, who is with the contingent of 150 Bundeswehr soldiers who were sent to help fight the flood.
Many bizarre scenes are playing out in the "City of Three Rivers," which is usually so proud of its location right where the Danube, Inn and Ilz rivers meet. Streetlights are bobbing on the water surface like buoys and an abandoned, half-submerged car is blinking furiously, its alarm system triggered by its movement in the water.
Link: http://www.spiegel.de/international/ger ... 03684.html
This seemed pretty intense, 500 year flood. I recall Britain having a 1,000 year flood in 2010. Who kept track of flood waters back then?
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