January 13, 2011
Across the Germany the mild temperatures melted December snowfalls. In the city of Koblenz the officials were watching flood levels in the Rhine river. The Bingen Water and Shipping Agency spokesman Martin Mauermann said, Commercial shipping on the Rhine, which leads to major Dutch ports on the North Sea, was banned for a roughly 90-mile (140-kilometer) stretch, roughly between the cities of Bingen and Cologne. Some shuttled through the historic city center’s narrow lanes on motorboats, passing closed restaurants and inundated houses in the village of Zell. The official in Koblenz, Moselle joins the Rhine said “the city was well prepared to cope with the swelling rivers” and “people here are used to it. It happens every year,” The firefighter spokesman Norbert Gras said, “There’s no sense of catastrophe.” The officials were carefully monitoring the order river in Germany eastern border. This kind of disaster is so dangerous, it left dead people, people get sick . The government should do something better to prevent this kind of tragedy.
Reference:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/10/germany-floods_n_806913.html#s221807
