The article starts out in the present tense, which might give a false impression that this is happening right now. In Cologne, where I live, the Rhine river act

The article starts out in the present tense, which might give a false impression that this is happening right now. In Cologne, where I live, the Rhine river actually just recovered from a minor flood as you can see on this chart: https://www.elwis.de/DE/dynamisch/gewaesserkunde/wasserstaende/wasserstaendeUebersichtGrafik.html.php?pegelId=a6ee8177-107b-47dd-bcfd-30960ccc6e9c https://www.elwis.de/DE/dynamisch/gewaesserkunde/wasserstaen... (Everything above 4.5m is considered a flood) One side effect of the low water that isn't mentioned in the article is that it exposed multiple bombs and grenades from the second world war.