It looks like Altenahr has been there for centuries (1) I apologise for the tone of my above comment, it might come across as dismissive. Not to ignore the tra

It looks like Altenahr has been there for centuries (1) I apologise for the tone of my above comment, it might come across as dismissive. Not to ignore the tragedy, but it's not striking at an entirely random location. A floodplain is at risk. We also should talk about known risks. And how they are getting worse. And how it was known that they would get worse. And failure to plan for that. What's been safe for centuries might not be safe any more. 1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altenahr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altenahr