Wow... that looks quite bad, Ducky. And by the sounds of it, it's going to get worse. :blink:
However, such weather is not unheard of. This looks very similar to weather we had in the South West of England in the few days just before Christmas. Braunton, which is a village in North Devon that my grandparents live near, and where my aunt lives, was a place that was severely flooded by a lot of rain. I know this topic is about the floods in Germany, but I just want to show two pictures as an example.
Since there's a dip in the road, some people were up to waist-deep in flood water, like this:
It seems there has been a lot more extreme weather around lately. I have heard some people saying that it is the result of climate change. I'm not too sure, though, but what I do know is that Britain has suffered more severe flooding and rain in the last few years. I hope Germany, and the rest of Europe, for that matter, doesn't suffer the same fate. The Braunton incident was all over the news, as well as somewhere in Cornwall, and when I went there just a week later, many of the shops were still closed and those that were open had to keep the bottom shelves clear.
I'm not an expert on weather, but I have noticed a lot more flooding and rain lately. Britain used to have warm, sunny summers and winters without any snow at all, but this winter was diabolical with the flooding and two counts of severe snow, and one of them was in March! And summers... well, we have around 2-3 weeks of sunshine and the rest is just rain or cloudy. I just have a bad feeling that it's only going to get worse.
