A few examples of such deaths: - An older man was found dead in his flooded basement. Presumably he went to check the status but exact circumstances and cause

A few examples of such deaths: - An older man was found dead in his flooded basement. Presumably he went to check the status but exact circumstances and cause of death are not clear yet. - Another older man tried to remove some branches from a clogged drain pipe. When he succeeded he got dragged along with the sudden surge of draining water and has not been found since. - A twenty-something guy got the idea to go 'play around in the water with some kind of floaty toy'. He got dragged away. - A fire brigade rescue boat got into trouble during a mission. The three elder people they had rescued went overboard and have been missing since. Two of the five firemen on the boat also went overboard but managed to secure themselves until they were rescued. It's a tragedy. Flooding of this scale has not been seen here. People don't know the dangers. And culturally a house is quite important for most people (the saying is that we "are born with a brick in our stomach") so they often refuse to leave their house. The last decade or so there have been improvements to give rivers more space, open up streams again that got covered up, make available basins that can be flooded to buffer water, increase/strengthen dikes and embankments, ... But what we've seen now was of a different order of magnitude: we've had locations that got like 100L+ of water in 24h whereas they would normally receive 800L in a whole year.