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I grew up in the town below the mentioned Lorelei Rock, St. Goarshausen. When I was born in 1988 it was the year of was the biggest flood in multiple decades.
by Roritharr 8y ago
I grew up in the town below the mentioned Lorelei Rock, St. Goarshausen.
When I was born in 1988 it was the year of was the biggest flood in multiple decades. When I went to elementary school I remembered having to leave our house on planks a few years because of the flooding. It happened just once again in middle school. We moved to Frankfurt in 2003, since then my friends that kept living in the area report that the floods left with me moving away and are sometimes joking if we'd left some faucet running back then.
I guess it's just an example of climate change that I could find in my picture albums without realizing. I wonder what else is lurking in those pictures.
- consp 8y agoAs far as I know, Germany did the same as the Netherlands after the 1993/5 flooding. They increased the leeway the water can have and increased emergency pumps. That might be a better explanation than climate change. But they do not rule each other out.
- danielh 8y agoI don't know about your town, but in Cologne there were massive investments in flood protection after the heavy floods in the 90s. I've been living in Cologne for about 10 years, and almost every year the water gets so high that temporary dams are set up. There are a couple of houses outside the protection area and those have been flooded and reachable only by boat or planks on multiple occasions.