'Like a war zone': Stunned Germans count cost of floods
A man walk on a road amid destroyed houses after the floods caused major damage in Schuld near Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, western Germany, on July 16, 2021 (CHRISTOF STACHE / AFP) SCHULD, Germany (AFP) — Aware that a storm was brewing, Cornelia Schloesser quickly installed a water pump in the cellar of her bakery. But “within minutes, a wave was in the house” and she lost the business her family had held for a century in Schuld, a village in flood-hit western Germany that now looks like a battlefield. “The oven is just junk now,” she said as she examined the extent of the damage from ...
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