Germany questions warning system after deadly floods
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published : 19 Jul 2021 at 08:11 Questions are mounting about whether Germany s weather warning system failed to keep citizens safe.
BAD NEUENAHR-AHRWEILER, Germany: As Germany mourns more than 150 people who died in floods and begins a mammoth clean-up task, questions are mounting about whether the country s weather warning system failed to keep citizens safe.
Although meteorological services had forecast torrential rain and flash floods for western Germany last week, many residents said they were caught off-guard by rapidly rising waters that destroyed roads, bridges and homes. We shouldn t be mourning this many fatalities in 2021, Hannah Cloke, a professor of hydrology at Reading University, told German broadcaster ZDF.
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